On.Programming

For most of us, programming (or more generally – software development) is all the life is about.

IT Hares are not different. And they have more than just quite a few bits to share about programming…

Deterministic Components for Distributed Systems

August 22, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Schrödinger's Cat

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Then you can recover from any single server failure in a perfectly transparent manner

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after the program fails in production, we can get the input log and run it in the comfort of a developer’s machine, under a debugger, as many times as we want, and get exactly the same variables at exactly the same points as happened in production

Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDistributed systems(Re)ActorsOn.ProgrammingDebugging

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Game Graphics 101: 2D Animation, Sprites, Double and Triple Buffering

August 16, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

raster vs vector

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If you’re using double buffering AND perform buffer swap in sync with the V-Sync signal, your monitor will show your game just as a movie projector with shutter would show a cartoon in the cinema

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I’ve seen a pretty minimal 2D engine written from scratch at a cost of 4-6 person-weeks

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

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Game Graphics 101: Static 2D (Vectors/Rasters, Color Spaces, 2D Anti-Aliasing, etc.)

August 8, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

raster vs vector

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when trying to scale vector image to VERY small pixel sizes – you might get problems

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Internally, JPEG uses a close cousin of a Fourier Transform, which works over 8x8 pixel blocks.

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

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War on Clones, Part II. Identifying Mobile and Browsers. Social and Payment-Based Identification. Putting it all together.

July 18, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Login

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as much as iOS is a device identification nightmare, Android is a device identification paradise.

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Everybody makes occasional mistakes, cheaters/abusers included."your DB"

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VI1st beta of Vol. VII-IXOn.ProgrammingTips and TricksOn.SecurityFraud Prevention

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