A failure announced

Hi all

Today I want speak about new Nintendo Console. After the failure of the sale of the Wii U, Nintendo try again with another one.
Like Wii U, this console permits two use, home and portable.

Nintendo Switch is the name of this console, I think that this name is due to this double use. In portable use, it is like a tablet with a screen of 6.2 inches and a resolution of 720p. At the screen tablet you can add the two controls used in home use.

In this link there is a good review.

In my opinion this new console will be a sure failure for these six reasons :

1) This console isn't backward compatible with Wii U and Nintendo DS.
2) This double nature (portable and home) was a failure in Wii U.
3) The design is retro and the colors aren't attractive (but this is my personal opinion) grey is horrible color.
4) The price of 329 Euro it's too expensive in comparison with PS4 and XBOX.
5) Nothing innovative.
6) 3 March is a wrong date of announcement and sale, just after Christmas time.


Stay tuned.

The 2017's second post

Hi All

The second post of this 2017. Many changes will came : a new USA president, many changes in my work and a little hope to change mine.

But first all, this new USA President, TRUMP, what about him? The world is really worried. Many people think that he is like a new Berlusconi but with a large audience and power. Really I haven't an opinion about him, Obama was one of the biggest disappointments in the history. Really I think that Trump will be another anonymous president a little bit more folkloric nothing more. Probably he will not end its mandate if he does something against the interests of lobbies or somethings strange, someone speaks about not much more two years of presidency, we will see.

Another item of this new year, is my actually work, many changes will come and not all goods. Actually Vivendi controls TIM but some rumors speak about a possible sale to ORANGE (ex Telecom France). If it's true another big changes will come. We will wait for it.

My new job, I hope and pray about this. Finally I hope that 2017 will be the year of my personal change to improve my work life and my life in general.

So we go into this new year.

Stay tuned.

Year 2017

Hi all

A new year is started, time of balance.
This year was a disaster about my objectives, really. All failed, see results :


1. Improve My English Level

• Improve listening comprehension   So and So

      2. Improve my Chess Level

• One or more tournaments Failed

      3. Improve my incomes Failed

      4. Be a better Christian Failed

      5. Study and deploy a mobile application Failed

      6. Write more posts on this blog Failed

      7. Stay Fit

·         Under 80 kilograms Failed (Actually I weigh 82,6 Kg)

·         Home fit (abdominals, ...)  Failed 

      8. Run more than 2015 Failed 

      9. Almost 4 courses (Coursera, EDX, ....) Failed 

I hope next year will be better, worts is impossible :-).
For 2017 same 2016's objectives 

Stay tuned.

My first mobile app in 2016

Hi all

This year i want do my first app on android, one of my year's objectives.
This is the year :-)
An app on android, uhmmm ...., ok but the first question is "What kind of app ?", a game, an educational app, an app for useful use, ....
Uhmmm ... ok a game, i have many ideas about it.
Second answer "A 3D game or a 2D game?", ok a 2D game more simple.
Third ansert "What library i must use to do it?".

Below there are some of the most used 2D library :

Commercial C++ frameworks:

• Unity3D: very good (available on Android, iOS, Web, Windows, OS X) [Game: Rocket Bunnies]
• Unreal Engine (commercial): the best engine but not for beginners [Game: Dungeon Defenders]

Open Source C++ frameworks:

• Ogre3D: the best open source 3d engine but it is a large framework
• Irrlicht: good performance, light framework [Game: Moblox]
• Linderdaum Engine: open source for Windows and Android
• Cocos2d-x: open source cross platform

Java Open Source Frameworks:

• LibGDX : Open Source, Very Popular, Supports multiple platforms, Support for Tiled, Box2D and other, Good Documentation
• AndEngine (Open Source): good performance. For documentation, look examples and read source code; but it is the Free library to begin a game project [Game: Drop Block]
• cocos2d for Android: Garbage Collector problem
• SDL is not a good idea because it is designed for framebuffer access.
• rokon: good performance and designed for mobile but project seems dead.

Physics Engine:

• box2d (OpenSource): fast and easy
• jbox2d (OpenSource): so slow on Java that I made a JNI wrapper with SWIG to use native box2d (AndEngine does the same)
• chipmunk (OpenSource): fast but I prefer box2d
• bullet (OpenSource): excellent 3D engine

After a "deep" analysis my choice was "libGDX". "Why this library ?", for these three reasons :

1. Because it is in JAVA (I know this language)
2. Because it is multiplatform 
3. Because it has a good documentation 

Actually i am doing a course on "UDACITY" learning site, named "2D Game Development with LibGDX". I hope that it helps me :-).

Stay tuned.

Year 2016

Another year is finished. An hard year with many events , the death of my mother over all.
I'll remember this year, 2015 always or better, during my life long, like a bad year, my work, my mother and  many another bad stuff. But I'll remember this year too, because it was an year of growing.

We go to check my 2015 objectives  :

1. Improve My English Level

• Improve listening comprehension    So and So (Just a little)

      2. Improve my Chess Level

•             My score in 2016 are : So and So / Failed
•       Only Live Chess is improved from 900 to 967. No tournament played.

1     3. Improve my incomes        Failed

       4. Be a better Christian         Failed

       5. Create one or two mobile applications Failed

       6. Write more posts on this blog   OK (6 posts in 2015 one more than 2014)

       7. Stay Fit

·         Reaming under 80 kilograms    Failed (my weight is 81,5 Kg)

·         More Continuity                        Failed

       8. Run more than 2014                               Failed

A very bad year. Only 1 objective on 8.

My 2016 objectives are similar but there is one more (courses) :

1. Improve My English Level

• Improve listening comprehension

      2. Improve my Chess Level

• One or more tournaments

      3. Improve my incomes

      4. Be a better Christian

      5. Study and deploy a mobile application

      6. Write more posts on this blog

      7. Stay Fit

·         Under 80 kilograms

·         Home fit (abdominals, ...) 

      8. Run more than 2015

      9. Almost 4 courses (Coursera, EDX, ....)

This year was a very bad year for my objectives too, i hope next year will be better.

Stay tuned.

Good things and Bad things

Hi all

There are good periods and bad periods in a life of a human. Many periods are worst than others and others are better than others. Life is just it.

This period in my life is a bad period, but it is not useful crying or complaining.
Yesterday i was thinking that there are many good things in my life and when i am focusing about them, bad things not appeared so bad.

So, the answer at bad moments is simple, you must focus on good things.

Take a sheet, divide it in two parts, in the left part, write good things and in the right part write bad things.

Probably good things are more than of the bad things as for me, or not. But the secret to change your life is thinking on the left side's things in the sheet. If you think too much time in right side, you will forget left side and so you will forget the good things that are in your life.

It is like the cherokee legend about two wolves. You only can decide what things are really important in your life.

Stay tuned.

My first online Course

Hi all

I am proud to announce that i have finished my first course in Coursera Site.

This year it was one of my goals.

The course was simple, a course for beginner programmer in python, "Programming for Everybody" of University of Michigan with 10 weeks of study.

I choose it for two reasons :

• My bad english level
• My basic knowledge of Python

The curse's instructor was Charles Severance really very nice and competent instructor.

Really understanding of English was not a problem and coursera allows you to slow down to listen the lessons.

I recommend this course to all those who want to learn English and the basics of programming, Python is a great language to learn to program.

Stay tuned.