Posted in blogging, work on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I have a backlog of over a dozen articles. I really need to chunk through some of these. If you come around much you’ll notice that I have been posting a bit more. I’ve moved into a new position to run ‘Consulting and Integration’ for NCsoft core technology group. This frees me up to do [...]
Posted in d on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been spending time in dmd (via gdc) and libphobos as a research project. While I have enjoyed writing D code I quickly have run into some ugly aspects of D.
DMD source:
* Ambiguous labels with copious use of gotos * Commented out printfs for tracing support * Class and struct definitions scattered across multiple files * Bugs?!
Phobos [...]
Posted in build, programming on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I investigated make, cmake, cook, jam, bjam, ftjam, scons, cons, rake, ant. What I come to find is this wonderful little paper that turns my out-moded ideas about make completely on it’s head. I wrote a wonderful beginnings of a new build system using 300 lines of Make and 100 lines of bourne shell. Shane [...]
Posted in games, mmo, software development on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Mike is uber and Mike recommends: RESTful Web Services.
MMO back-end technology seems stuck in the 90s. Makes me glad I took a hiatus to work at a CMS startup.