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When IN, OUT and IN/OUT is not enough!Filed Under: Weekly Tuesday Dose of goodness

Hi all,

Just came back from a considerable drive from Genting Highlands… (yeah I know it’s just a short distance for some…)… so, sorry for the late post. ;p

This article talks about the basic code documentations that are missing in most of the codes I’ve seen so far. In my C++ syllabus for the Intermediate course, I did mention that the minimum code documentations for the parameters of a function/method should be decorated with a IN, OUT or IN/OUT. Now, I’m not the one who invented this kind of notation.

And moreover, this notation doesn’t apply to all types of parameters. It’ll only apply to parameters passed by references or passed by pointers. This will indicate how the data will be used and handled.

However, it’s still not enough. Why?

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What’s your focus?Filed Under: Weekly Tuesday Dose of goodness

In this article, I’ll talk about how to penetrate a game project, getting it to start without having an extremely large scope on your head.

Now, this will also apply to new game developers as well.

In games, it’s very much alike movies, there’re many many things that needs to be done with a limited budget. So, what’s your focus?

Read on….
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Design-Based Leaks (Continued…)Filed Under: Weekly Tuesday Dose of goodness

Hi all,

Today I’m going to continue on the topic of design-based leaks or also known as Legal Leaks.

Design-based leaks will eventually be a better name because 99% of these leaks are due to design flaws or insufficient design and condition coverage that leads to objects being orphanated without having anyone to remove it from memory.

I’ve also mentioned in my previous article that dynamic data structures are the most susceptible to design-based leaks. However, does that mean that fixed-sized data structures are spared?

The answer is - NO! Wanna know why? Read on… Read the rest of this entry »