[[This is Chapter XV from “beta” Volume 2 of the upcoming book “Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”, which is currently being beta-tested.
Random Number Generation[[This is Chapter XV from “beta” Volume 2 of the upcoming book “Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”, which is currently being beta-tested.
jQuery 3.0 Final Released!jQuery 3.0 is now released! This version has been in the works since October 2014. We set out to create a slimmer, faster version of jQuery (with backwards compatibility in mind).
I finally finished this awesome game called Photoshop, let me send you a videoIt used to be that if you needed to create a recording of a program on the PC, you had to get Expressions Encoder or some other capture program. But the feature is now built into Windows 10, assuming you're willing to do some pretending. Windows 10 brings the Xbox Game DVR feature to the PC.
SQL Server 2016 and the Internet: Forced Updates, Phoning HomeSQL Server 2016’s End User License Agreement (EULA) contains a couple of surprises for those who let their SQL Servers connect to the internet. No, I don’t mean where the Internet connects to you – I mean where the SQL Server can reach the internet, like open a web page.
BattleshipI?m going to continue my analysis of classic card and board games by looking at the game of Battleship. (See early postings for analysis of Chutes & Ladders, Candyland and Risk). Battleship is a classic two person game, originally played with pen and paper.
3 pleasantly surprising PostgreSQL Indexing tricksMost Rails engineers know the basics of database performance. They know that if a query is slow, an index may be the solution. Some know the trade-offs between having and not having an index. Or why an index on a low-cardinality column might not help.
How to waste CPU and kill your disk by scaling 100 million inefficientlyI recently run into this blog post Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL (from about 6 months ago) and cringed, hard. Go ahead and read it, I’ll wait. There are so much stuff going on here that I disagree with that I barely even know where to start.
Strings and the CLR - a Special RelationshipStrings and the Common Language Runtime (CLR) have a special relationship, but it’s a bit different (and way less political) than the UK <-> US special relationship that is often talked about.
Who the Heck Wrote This? 3 Ways to Deal With Bad CodeWe’ve all been there. After hours or even days of tirelessly trying to narrow in on the cause of some small bug, you finally close in on a particular section.
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.