There is a Bug on this Code

There is a Bug on this Code

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Software is a serious business. Fatal bugs have been around since at least the 1980s, and a decade-old report estimated the annual cost of bugs at $60 billion. Tech companies spend millions on political lobbying. Opponents argue over labor shortages and H-1B visas.
So how about we take some time out to give three cheers for a little levity?

Radically Cross Platform: Scripting with Kablooie

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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...
Radically Cross Platform: Animation

Radically Cross Platform: Animation

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(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...
Radically Cross Platform: Spritesheets

Radically Cross Platform: Spritesheets

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(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...