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A Tiny XML Parser

Mar 21, 2008

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While looking for a convenient way for storing some level data for a game I’m working on (more of that later), I came across this small C++ XML parser. Originally, I wanted to stay away from XML or other formats as they are overkill for the simple game format. However, this parser is both small (the Xerces parser is over 50 megabytes!) and easy to use.

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Google Chart API is pretty cool

Feb 24, 2008

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I just stumbled upon the Google Chart API and I couldn’t resist playing with it (statistics being a fetish of mine). Here’s some information, code and thoughts about the API.

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Let’s make a planet

Feb 20, 2008

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For the last few days, I have been working on a planet generator. I originally got the idea from the method how you can easily tessellate a sphere into triangles.

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A simple statistics plugin for WordPress

Feb 18, 2008

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Here’s a very simple plugin for Wordpress that keeps track of view counts of individual pages. It is not intended to be a complete statistics solution. Rather, the main purpose is to provide something for those empty spots in your site layout.

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What exactly does GCC optimize?

Nov 07, 2007

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All compilers optimize code to some extent, some better than others. However, at least to me a great amount of the nature of the optimizations is unclear, outside the explicitly stated loop unrolling and like. Let’s find out which kind of programmer laziness and/or stupidity gets eliminated.

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