Category Archives: Software development

We’ve been sorting through every single piece of junk in the attic recently in preparation for moving; this one brought a particular smile to my face: Yep, my first compiler.  I’d kept the sales receipt inside the box – bought … Continue reading →

Last time, I talked generally about the trend of game memory usage.  Today, I thought I’d expand a little on some of the specific issues around memory usage on 32-bit editions of Windows.  This happens to have been highlighted recently … Continue reading →

I had a curious little problem recently: in our new bug database, we couldn’t play video attachments within the browser (e.g. with the VLC plugin for Firefox, or Windows Media Player embedded in IE).  You could download the video as … Continue reading →

Everyone knows singletons are bad, right?  I mean, they’re stupid, they’re evil, they’re pathological liars, they cause cancer, this guy hates them, and they bring people down. But in the rush to condemn, sometimes people lose precision.  I can understand … Continue reading →

Today’s post is a slightly random collection of stories and observations, all tied together under the common theme of “state” in programming. I feel that just in the last year or so, I’ve come to understand this better as an … Continue reading →

Making good design decisions (in the software engineering sense) is tricky.  In theory, you can boil everything down to first principles and make a decision based in pure logic.  But in practice, this tends not to happen very much outside … Continue reading →

In the last few weeks of 2008 I spent a bit of time converting Jonathan Shewchuk’s adaptive floating-point predicates (included in his Triangle library) into C#.  I don’t want to bash on this too much: the algorithms in question, and … Continue reading →