.mischief.mayhem.soap.

Actually, the trap I’m going to write about is a little more subtle and doesn’t apply only to lazy calculations, but it’s one of the most typical scenarios.

Some months ago I’ve read this article by Elan Ruskin, when he measures the overhead of virtual functions.

OK, the weird things.

Finally got my laptop back, so let’s restart with a quick warm-up note.

This word is usually enough to send shivers down the spine of most developers.

Doh, I got like 10 e-mails already asking about “The List” I mentioned… A little tired with explaining it’s just a very incomplete, totally subjective, personal list.

(…or continuation of this note) Damn, it seems like that laptop thing is more serious than I expected - motherboard died.

Damn, it seems like my Dell died.

I normally don’t try to link to every interesting industry story, there are better sites for this.

“Almost perfect…” - story of Word Perfect (competitor of MS Word, for young readers), interesting read, Two-part blog entry from Jeff Vogel, if you’ve ever wondered on indie RPG sales - this one’s for you (Jeff’s owner of Spiderweb Software, probably the…

Wow, kudos to GDC folks, they’re really fast this year, many presentations can be found at the official conference site already.

OK, it seems like the initial supply of GDC papers has dried out.

Let’s start, shall we?

GDC2009 has started, first publications should be available soon.

I’ll just put it here, because I’m fed up with forgetting it and experimenting with syntax every time I need it.

If you’re interested in lock-free/multicore programming, make sure to visit Charles Bloom blog and read his Low Level Threading series.

When developing stack-based containers for RDESTL I’ve encountered the following problem - how to get block of uninitialized memory that’s aligned properly for type T.

Some interesting stuff I’ve found recently: Intelligent Brawling - I’ve read it some months ago in Game Developer and it finally is online.

I’ve been refactoring big pieces of legacy code recently and my work would be much easier if authors would have followed the Law of Demeter.

Another little snippet.

A little bit late to the party, but maybe someone haven’t seen it yet and it’s definitelly something worth witnessing.

If you’re following news from gamedev/IT portals, you know that 2008 has been one tough year for the industry.

Usually, I try to write about less common programming issues here, this time it may be something less “flashy”, but very useful nonetheless.

Just a quick note – recently I’ve finally completed my quest for perfect desktop.

Just a small snippet – as a title says - lock-free double ended, bounded queue in C++.

Few words about what I’ve been up to profesionally for past months.

I’ve been playing with radix sort for RDESTL recently and MSVC optimizer surprised me one more time.

I normally try to put here stuff that’s interesting to all kinds of readers (for carefully chosen definition of reader…) but today I’ll make an exception and post a link to Polish article.

What’s the best way to drive traffic to your blog these days?

As you probably have heard - some months ago Google released its own browser - Chrome.

There’s an interesting observation in Eric Steven Raymond’s essay - ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’ (I’ve heard about it thanks to the reference in ‘Dreaming in Code’).

So, it’s official now, as you can read in Edge.

When I started my gamedev adventure I wanted to be a rendering/3D programmer.

If you’re familiar with MemTracer project you may be interested to know there’s a version that can be actually hooked to external application without much hassle.

Seems like I’m mainly pimping RDESTL recently, but that’s all I’ve time/power to work on when I’m back at hotel.

As stated before, I’m a big fan of oversensitive warnings and try to compile my projects with the highest warning level (/W4) under MSVC.

I’ve been reading lots of interesting stuff on hash tables recently and was trying to improve my RDESTL implementation of hash_map.

I didnt have much time to work on RDESTL recently, but I try to commit some new stuff every now and then (usually bug fixes).

Just a bunch of useful links/ideas that may help you if you need to make a quick prototype in C++ one day.

XNA Gamefest 2008 papers are finally online.

Year 2005, last months of Playstation 2, next-gen consoles are coming.

NVScene 2008 done.

Below you can find list of code snippets/small projects presented in the notes of this blog.

This year our company introduced a nice tradition - lucky folks who went to GDC referred talks they had attended to interested people.

I always try to take some books with me when flying for vacation, this year I finally managed to read Real-Time Collision Detection.

Just a few interesting links I’ve found recently: Visual Computing blog - a cooperation between Intel and Gamasutra.

There’s an interesting entry on Christer’s blog about graphical shader systems.

If you read comments to my CRC32 article, you’ll notice that the most important thing there is MSVC color scheme appearently.

For every bigger project, sooner (if you’re wise) or later (if you’re, errr, not that wise) comes a moment when you need to answer yourself one very important question: ‘why the hell is it so friggin’ slow?!?’.