Having previously been disappointed by the information available on the topic, this is my attempt at categorizing different ways to implement 2D platform games, list their strengths and weaknesses, and discuss some implementation details.
The Great Porn Experiment: Gary Wilson at TEDxGlasgowIn response to Philip Zimbardo's "The Demise of Guys?" TED talk, Gary Wilson asks whether our brains evolved to handle the hyperstimulation of today's Intern...
The Windows Runtime Library (WRL)Download How do I download the videos? To download, right click the file type you would like and pick “Save target as…” or “Save link as…” Why should I download videos from Channel9? It's an easy way to save the videos you like locally.
requestAnimationFrame API: now with sub-millisecond precisionIf you've been using requestAnimationFrame you've enjoyed seeing your paints synchronized to the refresh rate of the screen, resulting in the most high-fidelity animations possible. Plus, you're saving your users CPU fan noise and battery-power when they switch to another tab.
Engineering Infrastructures For HumansI've been lucky enough to have the chance to fly a lot over the past year or so. Working with Stephen Foskett and the rest of the Tech Field Day crew means that I've been to California almost every month. That's a lot of flying.
How To Cache Ajax Request In Easiest Way Using jQueryAnybody trying caching with ajax may find it difficult but the reality it is not. Rather its not at all hard and very easy to implement. There are many ways doing this. one is inbuilt option cache of function ajax of jQuery and the other I tried here. Check out the Demobefore going forward.
Shared libraries diamond problemIf you split up code into different libraries you can get a diamond dependency problem. That is you have two parts of your code that depend on different incompatible versions of the same library. Normally you shouldn't get in this situation.
Nmap 6 Released—The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/. It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009.
Fashionistas (and bureaucrats and journalists): Please learn to codeBut we haven’t heard enough from amateurs like me, nor has anyone, as Poynter’s Steve Myers claims, “written a single line of code” in response to Atwood.
The Commuting CoderAs a long time user of public transportation on my way to work and back I have grown myself a tool chain that helps me use my time more effectively. In this article I want to present the things I use and hope to get some inspiration from you.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.