So I got interested into terrain editing software. Of the little free stuff I tried, I was marveled by lithosphere. However it lacked some important UX enhancements (like undo/redo, saving to PNG, or a useful open/save file dialog). It’s Open Source written in Python, so I tried to give it […]
Tal como prometí, subí los slides de mi charla en la EVA 2015 realizada en Mar del Plata. FreelanceExportacionArgentinaEnBlanco.7z
We’ve been hunting for months a very rare crash that was driving us nuts. It was further obfuscated because a SEH exception (a nasty one) was being caught by C# and being rethrown as a completely different exception (that looked like an innocent one). If you use RakNet + SWIG […]
Note: This post is made from a non-EU provider perspective. However many points raised concern both EU and non-EU sellers. Disclaimer: This post tries to cover the subject as generically and objetively as possible. Take in mind that every Country in the world has its own Laws and your situation […]
I see Gleen Fiedler always struggling with people that repeatedly leaves a reply claiming that he knows nothing and should be always using TCP over UDP. Yet anyone developing a realtime application will laugh uncontrollably at such claims. Skype runs on UDP, many multiplayer FPS games run on UDP. VoIP runs […]
This is a continuation of Part I In Part I, we learned about the Sorted Vector as a replacement for map where iteration, lookups and memory overhead per element matter, while we cared little about insertions and removals. However the examples were rather simple: Keys are strings or integers. What […]
I’ve known for a while that users from at least the following countries have been blocked access to my website. That was driving me nuts. Probably you’ve been having difficulties until yesterday if you’re from: Australia Israel Malaysia Other Middle East countries. Probably other countries as well. You would just […]
This post is addressed to all the software dev. managers with this mentality, where a (probably manager) was honest in that they don’t care about Data Oriented Design (or any performance optimization strategy that requires some dev time, for that matter). A transcipt ensues: – We worry not so much […]
I don’t normally post personal business opinions, but I’m going to make an exception here. Yesterday NVIDIA announced they’ve initiated a patent lawsuit against major mobile vendors, claiming these vendors are profiting from their decade-long R&D. Christophe Riccio tweeted this move is a confirmation the Tegra K1 is commercial failure, […]
Android docs suck. There are a few rare exceptions. But overall, it sucks. This makes dealing with Android a lot harder than it should be. Many examples cover useless cases while real-world cases are nowhere to be mentioned. Once in a while you get lucky on Stack Overflow, but most […]