Archive for December, 2004
Foxtrot
Friday, December 17th, 2004C++.NET
Thursday, December 16th, 2004These articles show why I think C++.NET will never become more than a wrapper language (turning C++ apps into .NET modules).
.NET was designed for C# and VB… there’s just too many freedoms in C++ that can be exploited, and these articles are evidence of that.
The Type of a String Literal Revisited…
The String Literal Returns
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Personally I think it’s quite cool that you can take a C++ app and write a C++.NET wrapper for it and have it work in any .NET language. But I wouldn’t want to develop full-time in C++.NET. Too many crazy odd issues.
Top shareware games
Thursday, December 16th, 2004Instead of a single game, I’ll just recommend all of these. These are the Top Shareware Games of the Year 2004. One I already mentioned before (the excellent Insaniquarium).
Unique islands
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004Anyone want to buy me an island? I dunno, it’s all man-made and gimmicky, but for some reason I think it would be really cool to go there.
The World
Watch the movie too, very cheesy marketing flick.
Conducting a beta test
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004If you ever find yourself needing to conduct a beta test… first of all, congratulations. That means you have a product almost ready for market. That’s an achievement all by itself. This article is a post-mortem on a beta test that was conducted for a product. Interesting lessons that can be learned.
How To Run A Beta Test… Or Not?
Looking for images?
Tuesday, December 14th, 2004I get asked every now and then for sites that have publich domain pictures you can download. This article mentions a couple sites that have indexed images you can use:
Free Images
Now, I need sites that have free sounds available for use… Anyone know of any?
The once great ZDNet
Tuesday, December 14th, 2004Take a look at this article:
Does the ‘Halo 2′ effect threaten broadband?
What a stupid article. No wonder I no longer subscribe to PC Magazine, and I no longer read zdnet.
How could they write something so stupid? There is absolutely no way that the Halo 2 users are using up the majority of the bandwidth in the world. Also, the article even states that essentially latency is latency. If you’re playing with someone on the other side of the world, you’re going to have latency no matter what. What can an ISP do about it?
Fear and doubt. That’s the only purpose of this article. Makes me mad to think that people will read that and think that the Internet will “fill up” with people playing Halo 2. Sigh…
Sunlight map
Monday, December 13th, 2004Simple idea, neat effect. Where is the sun currently shining in the world right now? You can now find out.
World Sunlight Map
No longer single CPU
Monday, December 13th, 2004Thread Level Parallelism - Design Decisions on Ace’s Hardware
I hesitate to recommend this article. It has some good points, but quite a few bad points. I’ll share:
I bring this article up because:
Strong Bad gets a virus
Friday, December 10th, 2004I love strong bad. He gets a virus on his computer and his whole life has a meltdown. Hilarious. If you’ve seen as many virus infected machines as I have, you’ll completely relate.
Virus