A new mobile database for iOS (Android support coming soon) launched earlier this week called Realm. Given that up to this point your options were SQLite or something built on top of SQLite like Core Data or YapDatabase, it’s kind of a big deal. SQLite is great,...
How would you design your own ideal scripting language? Would you go with a functional language in the LISP family, or with a more procedural style? Would you offer object oriented organization? Would large parts of your ideal language be recognizable as C or...
(This is a continuing series sharing design and implementation notes for a cross platform 2D game or graphical app engine I wrote in C# using Xamarin and Monogame.) It was hard to choose next between covering the animation system, physics engine, or custom scripting...
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...
There have been several projects over the last few years here at Art & Logic where we’ve used the excellent JUCE cross-platform C++ application framework. It’s pretty widely used in the pro audio world, since it has extensive support for all the kinds...
