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On the Other Side of the Barricade: Job Interviewer Do’s and Don’ts

Martin Moene

04 December 2013 19:13:21 +00:00

Interviewing is an important skill which is hard to get right. Sergey Ignatchenko gives advice to get you thinking.

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How to Program Your Way Out of a Paper Bag Using Genetic Algorithms

Martin Moene

03 December 2013 19:06:18 +00:00

It is often claimed people cannot program their way out of a paper bag. Frances Buontempo bucks the trend using genetic algorithms.

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Object-Environment Collision Detection using Onion BSPs

Martin Moene

02 December 2013 19:16:11 +00:00

Previously we considered 3D navigation. Stuart Golodetz demonstrates how to detect collisions using onion binary space partitioning.

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Migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Git

Martin Moene

01 December 2013 19:35:01 +00:00

Migrating from one version control system to another is a big change. Chris Oldwood records the trials and triumphs of migrating from VSS to git.

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Editorial: Decisions, Decisions

Martin Moene

08 October 2013 22:28:30 +01:00

Providing precise definitions can be difficult. For example, what is a program?

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Code as a Crime Scene

Martin Moene

07 October 2013 20:01:31 +01:00

Forensic techniques can predict possible future crimes. Adam Tornhill shows how they can be applied to code.

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Lies, Damn Lies and Estimates

Martin Moene

06 October 2013 20:08:23 +01:00

Predicting how long something will take is hard. Seb Rose takes us on a brief tour through the swamp that is estimation.

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YAGNI-C as a Practical Application of YAGNI

Martin Moene

05 October 2013 20:36:01 +01:00

YAGNI can seem vague. Sergey Ignatchenko offers a more precise definition.

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Has the Singleton Not Suffered Enough

Martin Moene

04 October 2013 22:46:58 +01:00

Singletons are much maligned. Omar Bashir considers why.

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Automatic Navigation Mesh Generation in Configuration Space

Martin Moene

03 October 2013 08:55:56 +01:00

Walkable 3D environments can be automatically navigated. Stuart Golodetz demonstrates how navigation meshes achieve this.

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C++ Range and Elevation

Martin Moene

02 October 2013 22:38:59 +01:00

C++ provides many features for higher-level programming, but lacks some common ones present in other languages.

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Editorial: Learning Fantasy Languages

Martin Moene

06 August 2013 19:55:41 +01:00

The last Overload editorial described a Fantasy Language. Now, how do you learn one?

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Hard Upper Limit on Memory Latency

Martin Moene

05 August 2013 19:53:37 +01:00

Achieving very low latency is important. Sergey Ignatchenko asks how low can we go.

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Simple Instrumentation

Martin Moene

04 August 2013 19:47:59 +01:00

Programs often run out of memory or grind to a halt. Chris Oldwood demonstrates how to add instrumentation to your code to track its performance.

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Portable String Literals in C++

Martin Moene

03 August 2013 18:11:08 +01:00

How hard can it be to make a file in C++ with international text literals in its name? Alf Steinbach shows us.

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Dynamic C++ (Part 2)

Martin Moene

02 August 2013 18:04:56 +01:00

Previously we saw how to use some simple dynamic features in C++. Alex Fabijanic and Richard Saunders explore more powerful dynamic tools.

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Auto – a necessary evil? (Part 2)

Martin Moene

01 August 2013 18:01:13 +01:00

Should you declare (almost) everything auto? Roger Orr considers when auto is appropriate.

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Executable Documentation Doesn’t Have To Slow You Down [Test-HTML-2]

Martin Moene

10 July 2013 11:42:46 +01:00

Comprehensibility of end-to-end scenarios and quick feedback of unit tests are competing goals. Seb Rose introduces Cucumber with tags to meet both needs. [Hand edited from Test-HTML-1. Last changed: 10 July 2013, Martin Moene]

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Sample Overload Article (title)

Martin Moene

10 July 2013 09:28:33 +01:00

[Byline] This is a sample to see all the styles an Overload article may have as a webpage. Changed: 15, 4, 3 January 2014, 10 July 2013, Martin Moene

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Executable Documentation Doesn’t Have To Slow You Down [Test-XML-1]

Martin Moene

07 July 2013 21:42:36 +01:00

Comprehensibility of end-to-end scenarios and quick feedback of unit tests are competing goals. Seb Rose introduces Cucumber with tags to meet both needs. [Generated from XML by Martin Moene; old XSL, apparently not matching current XML.]


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