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Annotated 4k Altair Assembly

Posted on May 16, 2007 by proj

As a big fan of computer history and folklore I found this extremely interesting . http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/altair/index2.html “SyntaxCheck (RST 1) Here is a truly beautiful piece of code, it’s Golden Weasel richly deserved. It’s used at run-time to check syntax in … Continue reading →

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RubyCube 0.2.1 released to RubyForge

Posted on May 3, 2007 by proj

A new windows binary and source distribution is ready on ruby forge with inital support for sprites.  I also took this opportunity to fix a few small bugs and update the documentation. This also marks the first public upload of … Continue reading →

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GoogleTalk: How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters

Posted on May 1, 2007 by proj

A great talk that runs just over an hour. It covers some well trodden ground for people who have read pragmatic programmer, practice of programming or code craft. Jonathan Bloch provide compelling insights into proper develop ment practice and I … Continue reading →

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Yes more allocator references

Posted on March 23, 2007 by proj

It’s a huge subject and while I haven’t been full-time looking at this stuff I have done some more research and dug up some more references. LKmalloc, the basis allocator for the allocator used at MS Internally at MS the … Continue reading →

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More local heap references

Posted on March 23, 2007 by proj

Collecting yet more references for implementing a custom heap for C++. One of the issues you run into when using a custom heap is the notion of placement new: void *operator new (size_t size, Heap &heap) { return heap.Allocate(size); } … Continue reading →

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