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Update Reminders in 5-Minutes
Here's a super-simple way to gently remind your users that a new version of your app is available.
Continue reading...Tip o’the Day™ 4: Take Advantage of unions
Sunday, November 21, 2010
For those that write in C/C++, you might already know that unions are a good way to store data efficiently. Using the power of unions, you can leverage their functionality by accessing data more easily. Here’s a Tip o’the Day to show you how.
Continue reading...Localizing? Here’s an extension for sprintf()
Monday, November 15, 2010
Here's an extension to sprintf() that will help with localization.
Continue reading...Don’t Make Me Think
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
When it comes to reading code (mine or someone else’s, it doesn’t matter; reading is reading), I have a really short attention span. I don’t want to spend a lot of time analyzing the code to figure out what it’s doing. I want to treat the code just like the sun: glance to get a sense of it, and then look away. This is especially true when debugging. Most of the time you spend debugging is trying to find the cause of the problem. Once you have found the cause and collected your data/evidence, the actual task of fixing the problem is pretty trivial. When I debug, I’d like to instantly know what the code is doing. Any extra time I spend figuring out what the code is doing is really annoying, even if it’s just a few seconds. Here are some things I’ve learned over the years that could help you save time. Some might see this as another “coding style” article, but it really isn’t. It’s merely a list of things you can do when writing code to help you in your debugging efforts.
Continue reading...Tip o’the Day™ 1: Take Advantage of Consts
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Conditionals and Consts Here’s something you might not have thought about doing with your conditionals. I came across this quite some time ago and I gave it a try because I thought it made sense. Now it has become a habit so I do this all the time. It's not a drastic change from your existing coding habits and it doesn't require much effort, but it will help you find errors in your code more quickly.
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- Don’t Make Me Think
- I Know What Your Files Are (or, Why You Should Hide Your Data)
- Reducing the Download Footprint
- The Wired Issue
- Tyler: Thanks for sharing this, it was really helpful when doing my implementation....
- Jessy: If memory reduction is actually a driving force, then using uncompressed textures isn't the right solution. PVRTC doesn't offer a particularly simple...
- Blade: I just ported this over to UDK, got the basics of it working great. Now off to learn the Material system so I can actually build the textures for the ...
- BuffaloJ: Great tip! I've done C++ for 15 years and have used unions only a tiny amount. I can think of 5 places in my engine code that this would be very ele...
- Bob Koon: Thanks for your comment. I was saving discussion of the POW2 problem for the next article. You're right though. The biggest waste that I've seen on...
- Adam: Nice article. It raises some very useful points. It doesn't, however, address the shortcoming of Apple not including the non-POT (Power Of Two) textur...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
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