I just installed the latest version of WordPress on a new web server, which'll take over from the old one soon, and I have been very pleased with the whole process. Installation was as simple as creating a database, wget-ing the latest.tar.gz, extracting, creating a config (which I could have done through the browser but … Continue reading WordPress FTW!
Month: April 2010
Microsoft is totally hedging against the death of the GPU
It's interesting to look at the way we've gone from single-core processors to octal-core processors in under four years (that's pretty much moore's law holding true right there). I think it is reasonable to assume that by the end of the decade we'll have processors with hundreds of cores, and they'll be powerful I reckon. … Continue reading Microsoft is totally hedging against the death of the GPU
A Quick and Dirty tutorial on Event Tracing For Windows: Part 1 the Event Trace Session
[EDIT 4 September 2010] Thanks to David M for pointing out an error in my code. When starting an ETW session you should pass in the session name not the log file name. See the correction (in bold) in the LoggingController::Start member function below. [/EDIT] So, Windows Events, its the new Logging API for Windows … Continue reading A Quick and Dirty tutorial on Event Tracing For Windows: Part 1 the Event Trace Session
A successful day
I started actually writing some code on my new experimental engine today. One of the things I want to do with this engine is write as little code myself as I have to. Also, I'd like to avoid using third party libraries for things Windows already does, like logging. A lot of people would use … Continue reading A successful day
Change of tack for learning C++
I've decided to change tack with how I go about learning C++ and DirectX. I've been finding that going through exercises in a book gets more and more contrived, and I'd rather sink my teeth into something, so I'm going to write an engine from scratch. I don't know how much I'll write about it.
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