As CD's are not 100% indestructible many people want to make a backup of their games. Using the backup to play the game thus saving the original. (Fight the DRM)
by andy@nobugs.org, "I recently became interested in parsing C++. It's taken me quite a while to gather together various resources from the web, so I thought I'd share my findings with the world ..."
by Bill Venners May 23, 2005. <<"patterns" is still a buzzword. ... Patterns help sell seminars. There's a lot of marketing hype around design patterns. ... can help people learn object-oriented thinking>>
everything you need to know about optimizing code for the Intel microprocessors, including Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Celeron and Xeon. The main focus is on assembly language programming...
development of a real-time executive for PC applications. The executive developed is based on a pre-emptive round-robin queue, and supports multiple tasks within a global programs address/data space.
in Uninformed Vol1 2005.May by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. + Ross Moore, Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
This page list codes for accented letters and other characters. In order to use these codes, your computer should have a separate numeric keypad on the right.
error codes are values that identify different types of errors in the Windows API. Most functions do not report the error code directly; instead, they simply return a flag specifying if some error occured or not.
"a decade ago was that there was a serious lack of uniformity." ... "I had hoped that the situation in the C++ world would have improved since then, unfortunately it appears that I may be sadly dissapointed."
B-Trees are often mentioned as a good way to store and retrieve data, especially to and from disk. They're efficient to use and easy to program, and they're often mentioned but not-so often discussed. They show up all over the place.
The Unified Modeling Language has quickly become the de-facto standard for building Object-Oriented software. This tutorial provides a technical overview of the 13 UML.
these are samples, not complete applications. The code (and coding style) is not meant to be industrial strength; it's not even well-designed. The sole purpose of the samples is illustrating a point, not teaching proper coding style.
Windows Script is a comprehensive scripting infrastructure for the Microsoft® Windows® platform. Windows Script provides two script engines, Visual Basic® Scripting Edition and Microsoft JScript®, which can be embedded into Windows Applications.
Norse mythology, Scandinavian mythology, Viking mythology; all refer to the pre-Christian religion of the Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Danish peoples.
to provide entrepreneurs with the tools and assistance necessary to help achieve their desired goals as well as to provide a forum for the exploration of entrepreneurial ideas and issues.
at infoDev "Perspectives for Development, was prepared by The Dravis Group for the World Bank's infoDev Symposium, and includes advice for how IT-constrained foreign firms might explore Open Source options."
explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips.
game programming tutorials and source code for a variety of languages and platforms. Also, because this is a wiki, you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge and help the repository grow!