Ninjacrab

Author: Min Yong Kim

  • Super Reduced Scope

    So as I started plodding away to write some more stories and implement new weapon features to align with the story mode, I kept thinking of how to integrate my story and reduce scope. Then I decided that I would give in and say “A plus tard”(see you later) to the story for now. So,…

  • Finally back to some Unity

    So I recently went to a Unity meetup here in NYC and it definitely got my excitement level up to resume working on my game. It’s been on quite a hiatus due to my Random/Top coding initiatives. However, I’m going to put them on hold and try to super focus on the game and get…

  • Facebook Unity – Keystore missing

    So I just recently noticed that the Facebook team wrote a unity plugin to make your games easily integrate with Facebook! I’m super excited to get Conflicademia connected so off I went. Apparently, a while ago, I attempted this before and found an old Facebook assembly that I couldn’t get working. It also conflicted with…

  • TopCoding Video 4 is out!

    All, the 4th top coding video is out for your consumption! Thanks for all the kind comments and video subscriptions. I hope those of you who watch it actually enjoy it! Good night world!… Read the rest

  • New year, new blog theme – Top Coding Video 4 coming soon!

    As I start to type this, I was informed that WordPress had a pretty significant update for 2014. So I updated and also decided to just roll with the default theme as it’s pretty clean. I just wrapped up solving the Top Coder SRM 604 1000 point problem and dissecting it for the next video.…

  • Top Coding Video 3 Uploading soon!

    Just finished my third top coding video. I really is encouraging to hear that people are interested, so I figured why not spend some time tonight for that. Apologies as I was using the newest version of FFSplit. I spent about an hour messing with the settings and hacking through some of the configuration file…

  • It’s soooooo obvious!

    While using the Newtonsoft Json.Net library I received the error “Explicitly define an Id for the type using a JsonObject/JsonArray attribute or automatically generate a type Id using the UndefinedSchemaIdHandling property.” When attempting to generate a schema for some types that were created that have circular references. My types were created in EntityFramework database first…

  • SysWOW64 burns a few hours

    My latest adventure involves me setting a profile for Powershell to import a module so that I can use a custom script without manually loading it each time. So run off to find that the environment variable is $profile.allusersallhosts. It maps to a file “C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\profile.ps1”, so I open up Notepad++, place my import statements in there…

  • IIS Express misdirection

    So I maintain multiple branches, one for on-going development and the other for production support. Although Git has a feature to switch branches, it does some magic in the background which moves files and require you either to stash your changes or commit, which can be inconvenient, so instead I have the branches checked out…

  • Bleeding edge vs Cutting edge

    So after returning from Code camp NYC, I got back to the office with a bunch of new toys that I absolutely had to integrate as part of our solution. I started messing around a web framework called “Hot Towel”, which includes “Bootstrap”, “Durandal”, “RequireJS” and “Toastr”. Out of the box, it compiles and the…