Very short report from day 0 of CPPCON2017. Registration reception was lively (with Gor Nishanov being the star of the show, but lots of the other interesting people were noticed, I even spotted <da-dum /> Bjarne Himself). There were posters, and while some were well, not to my taste (example: IMNSHO, a global deadlock detection […]

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For game development (and unlike most of other software development projects), you're likely to have binary files which need to be edited (representing so-called “assets”)

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for open-source games, Git does have a Very Significant Advantage™

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As a rule of thumb, for gamedev we DO need to have our version control to be easily usable by non-developers.

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it is the second developer to commit who becomes a responsible for resolving conflicts

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Have I already mentioned that you DO need to understand execution plans?

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DO keep in mind that maintaining indexes has its own cost