Steve Symington’s Blog

If you click the w3.org validator link in the sidebar (also here), you will find that this page DOES NOT validate as valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Not that it’s the end of the world, but I was surprised when I clicked the link today for the first time in a few days. I take pride in my nicely formed code, but it seems a phantom </p> tag has found its way into my “New Kitten” entry. Continue Reading »

Earlier this year a buddy of mine and I wrote a C++ program for terrain generation as an academic exercise in Computer Science. We designed it to allow users to generate their own terrain using some easy little tools, and I like to think we did an okay job. Incidentally, it turned out to be a fun little program.

You can download it here. (~2.47MB)

If you’re handy enough, you can also convert publicly available GIS elevation data to our simple format and display some pretty impressive stuff (sorry, I won’t do it for you, though we might later change our format to meet a specified standard…take at look at the example files in the installation directory for some already-converted data). Feel free to play around and let me know what you think!

I’ve decided I need something to brush up my JavaScript, PHP, basic social, and MySQL skills.

Over the next (random number of your choosing) months, I’m going to overhaul the look and feel of this site. I’ll change the home page, but the most notable changes will be in the blog…currently the theme is based on the popular ShadedGrey v2.1 theme, but the thought of using a theme that is not (mostly) my doing is far too bothersome for me to bear.

*Edit: As I get deeper into the design, please leave me some comments to let me know what you think of the look and feel of the site!