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I’ve been trying to learn more and more about web development over the last few months. In part just because there’s a lot to the wider world of software than games, and I think that there’s much that game developers can learn from that wider world ( and vice versa for sure ).
Deliberately unemploying yourself […]

This long overdue post takes a brief look at string hashes.
I was trolling through blogs ( in the passing ship sense, not the flame-baiting, nor monster under the bridge sense ) and came across John Gior’s post on FNV in games. Having never heard of FNV, I thought I’d take a […]

The YAML processing specification defines, in concept, three basic node types: map, sequence, and scalar. In practice, however, the specification requires four: map, sequence, scalar, and string. This post looks at: first, why the specification has four types; then, whether typical parsers successfully handle all four types; finally: why it would be okay to […]

I’ve updated the formatting of a few posts, and fixed the most egregious spelling errors.
Thanks be to the Firefox auto-spell check ( though I honestly think my next mini-project will be an xml transform for Microsoft Word that will create posts straight from properly formatted doc files )
I’ve also added a short new page to […]

I’ve got a simple parser running that I will post up come Monday.
First, some thoughts about Syck in C/++.
Syck does exactly what it sets out to do and does it well.
It’s designed to efficiently translate Yaml into the data structures of dynamically typed languages: it’s fast and has a fairly low memory overhead. It’s […]