Do Know Evil - Tyler Mulligan’s Tips and Tricks

I’ve been quite busy recently, doing work for my company, VGO Software who specialize writing code to accelerate development. Our two big products are Evo which converts Oracle® Forms to Java and Rev, a database-driven Java code generator for the enterprise. They are one of two companies certified by Oracle® to convert to Java, which is pretty cool.

But back on track, I’ve been doing work for them in preparation for Oracle Open World. Which I had the honor to design a few things for. Such as:

I’ve also had my hands in XEPIC.net, which Jimbo and I are proud to release a new beta release which has laid the ground work for the soon to come 1.0.

I’ve updated parts of my portfolio, gotten my hands dirty in the world of mapping and started an online community.

In my free time, I paint:

I love the music on di.fm but I HATE the commercials. They make me physically ill. Since I can’t quite afford an account, I’ve decided the next best thing is muting the commercials. Unfortunately, I often forget that I have it muted and I site there with the sound off until something in my brain clicks. Anyway, the point is, why remember, when I can write a program to remember for me?

I downloaded Auto Hotkey and googled for a hot second and came up with this little gem:

^+m::
SoundSet, +1, , mute

#Persistent
SetTimer, Unmute, 10000
return

Unmute:
SoundSet, +1, , mute
SetTimer, Unmute, Off
exit

Now, whenever I press ctrl+shift+m, it mutes for 10 seconds. Whoop whoop!

I just moved into a new apartment, started a new job and didn’t have the internet for ~a week. I’ve been working on some other projects and I’ll be sure to start posting about them soon.

In the mean time, if you’re bored and you like quick decision making / fast paced gameplay or just first person shooters in general, you should check out Nexuiz. Nexuiz is free, open source and runs on all platforms (windows, osx, linux).

Here’s two examples of the fast paced action via flag caps:

flag cap one
flag cap two

Hope to see you on.

This alphabet appears to have multiple endings… I started the one on the left (in pencil) before I left for Bisco but I decided to do a quick color one (took ~45 minutes) to see how it would look. I’m not sure I’m going to stick with either for the final product… we’ll see.

I suppose a work of art is never finished.

I’m going to Camp Bisco. I’ll have Z when I’m back.