Book: D&D of MOGs

Logins and Passwords

June 27, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Login

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I STRONGLY recommend to provide an option for your players to use 3rd-party “social logins

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you can be sure that as soon as your game is alive and kicking - you'll need to implement password recovery for your players.

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VIOn.SecurityBest Practices

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Random Number Generation

June 21, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Random Number Generation

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even if your RNG is statistically perfect, people will still complain🙁

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On modern x86 CPUs, single core can generate 150M+ random bytes/second this way (and this is a Damn Lot).

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VIOn.ProgrammingTips and TricksOn.SecurityBest Practices

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Implementing Queues for Event-Driven Programs

June 13, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Multiple Writers Single Reader Queue

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full queues SHOULD NOT happen during normal operation

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With queues-implemented-over-mutexes like the ones we’ve written above, the most annoying thing performance-wise is that there is a chance that the OS’s scheduler can force the preemptive context switch right when the thread-being-preempted-is-owning-our-mutex.

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VIOn.System Architecture(Re)ActorsOn.ProgrammingTips and Tricks

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C++ Guidelines - Made-to-Measure vs One-Size-Fits-All

June 6, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

One-Size-Fits-All vs Made-to-Measure

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After bashing all those Big Name guys for making those over-arching sets of guidelines, it is perfectly logical for me myself to do the same?

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DON’T use C-style cast, EVER. If you DO need a cast – DO spend time on figuring out which of C++ *_cast<>s you really mean (and maybe, you’ll find a way to avoid that cast at all)

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VIOn.ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesOn.DevelopmentDevelopment Processes

Tagged With: C/C++
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