Right back at Indie again…
As you may have read on this blog, I joined King less than 5 months ago, but on the 31 January 2014, the day of my birthday, I decided my experience there had to come to an end and I…
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Actionscript 3 sorting performance
Recently I decided to look more into performance and optimization of Actionscript 3/Flash, mostly to learn what to do and what not when writing AS3 code. A quick Google search gave me only few, outdated and not very reliable articles,…
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Rugby Union community passed the 2000 members mark
Who doesn’t know me probably can’t even image it, but my biggest passion has always been and will always be rugby (I mean the proper one, rugby union ;)). I’ve been playing it for almost half of my life (since…
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Android version distribution over time
Android is the most popular mobile platform on earth, but since the first versions it has suffered of a serious and growing problem: fragmentation. Google recently released version 4.4, codename KitKat, that could solve this problem, but it’s too early…
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Hail to the King
yesterday I started a new journey in my professional career: I joined King, the company behind games like
Nexus 7 (2013) unboxing
Recently I decided to buy a 7″ tablet and obviously my choice was the Nexus 7, I wasn’t completely sure if going for the 2012 or the 2013 model though, but after some (lost) eBay auctions and a bit of…
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C++ pitfalls
C++ is a powerful language, but “with great power comes great responsibility” so it’s quite easy to mess things up and to make mistakes that can lead to unexpected results and miserable fails. In this post I’m going to describe…
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Proper screen resolution when running Linux in Virtualbox
Virtualbox by Oracle is definitely the best choice when you need a free solution for your virtualization needs. Using it is pretty straightforward, but recently I had an issue with the screen resolution running Linux (Kubuntu 13.04) on a Windows…
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Using a shift register 74HC595N with Arduino
In this simple project I’m going to use an 8-bit shift register 74HC595N to control 8 LEDs using only few pins of my Arduino Uno.
How to set up a SDL 2 project for OS X in Xcode 4
SDL 2 doesn’t come with a proper project template for Xcode, so if you’re developing on a Mac for OS X or iOS you need to create one from scratch or you have to reuse an example project provided with…
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How to set up subdomains with Apache 2
When I created this blog I decided to set up a “blog” subdomain for it so now the blog is accessible via blog.davidecoppola.com
20 Arduino projects of 2013
The world is full of incredible makers which make new amazing things with Arduino every day and I think that collecting and showcasing the most interesting ones can be truly inspirational, especially for people who just started with Arduino or…
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