(Third in the "Radically Cross Platform" series of posts; see previous posts about Xamarin, Memory Management, and Serialization.) This is supposed to be about spritesheets, aka texture atlases, which are raster (bitmap, or pixel based) collections of...
(This is the third in the “Radically Cross Platform” series of posts; see previous posts about Xamarin and Memory Management.) When in the early stages of developing my cross platform game/graphical app engine, my first task was reading as much as I could...
The first post of this series described a choice of technologies and toolsets (based on Xamarin) that allows C# programmers to deploy graphics accelerated apps using OpenGL/DirectX across a radically cross platform spectrum of devices and operating systems....
Shared cross platform development is a concept that resonates very positively with all of us as programmers. It’s a nice outworking of the DRY principle, and seems like it would free engineers up to accomplish more. So why is it so rare that we do it? I...
(This is part 2 of a series on web security; see part 1.) In my last post we saw that what your users don’t know can hurt them. In other words, how securely you handle your users’ private data behind the scenes can have profound implications both for your...
