Jabavu (a.k.a Jaba) Adams

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Would you like to talk to me about a project, to find out more about what I'm working on, or to hire me? See my business page: YB Labs.

iLightning!

Here's my first iPhone game! Tap, or shake your iPhone or iPod touch to unleash visual and sonic fury, accompanied by the cry of "Lightning Bolt!"

Office Smash!

I put together a team for the 3rd Toronto Indie Game Jam. Here's what we made:

Play It!

My Blog

Links

• Meta Skills: What to do to do
• You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming
• Technology and Courage [pdf], by Ivan Sutherland
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, by Peter Norvig
• What You'll Wish You'd Known, by Paul Graham (especially useful for high-school students!)
• Software / Projects / Business
• Slides and Audio from Y Combinator's Startup School.
• Eric Sink's Weblog (Nice guide to marketing for geeks, among other things)
• Joel on Software
• Portland Pattern Repository (The original wiki; thoughtful commentary on methods, language features, and design)
• Games
• International Game Developers Association (Toronto Chapter)
• Toronto Indie Game Jam
• MIT Linear Algebra Video Lectures (excellent!)
• Differences between OpenGL, DirectX, and ODE matrix order and memory layout.
• NeHe OpenGL Tutorials
• Comparing floating point numbers paper.
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• IProf: Portable in-game profiler with real-time display.
• Python
• Python, a productivity-enhancing scripting and glue language.
• PyOpenGL: OpenGL for Python.
• PyGame: play audio, handle game input, and draw 2d graphics in Python (plays nice with OpenGL.)
• SWIG (Simple Wrapper and Interface Generator) Wrap C/C++ modules for use with Python (or Ruby, or .NET, or ...)
• Physics
• Free video lectures of Richard Feynman, explaining Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED).
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (uses Scheme/Lisp; teaches Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations)
• Chris Hecker's Bibliography for Rigid-Body Dynamics