I am generally not a fan of extensively customizing my tools or work environment. If the benefit isn’t significant, I’m not going to spend my time monkeying around with settings and configuration files and screens of options: they get in the way of actually being productive. vim is one of those tools that’s so useful …
Actually it was released last week, when it still was actually June, so I’m a little late to this party. Mike did the official release thread on GDNet this time around in which he calls out the major changes, including .NET 4.0 support, cleaner access to the shader compiler interfaces, and a much more robust …
Canlis is a restaurant in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, overlooking Lake Union. The restaurant has been operating since 1950, when it was opened by Peter Canlis, and is run today by Mark and Brian Canlis, Peter’s grandchildren. Since its inception, Canlis has maintained a reputation of being among the fanciest restaurants in the area, as …
GDNet community manager Washu has written about the perils of C-style strings for beginners (in C++). In his post, he covered a variety of excellent points, but he missed one of my favorites: C-style strings are not a type. A C-style string is just an interpretation of an actual type (a char*) that adds some …