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In March, I’ve set up a Redmine application with the Ruby webserver Webrick. Since then, I’ve migrated to Apache, and then the question was: Which Ruby bridge module to use? It’s not that the choice is large, you have mod_fastcgi, mod_fcgid and mod_rails a.k.a. Passenger. I’ve tried the three of them, and only one was a success.

As for the last post about Redmine, I’ve compiled everything (Apache included) in a custom location and I start the server from there (without root rights).
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There is no official C++ standard, unlike several languages (Java, Python, …) where there are referentials for code and design style, good practices, … It didn’t exist until this book where two world-renowned C++ authors set the basis for your every day development.
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I bought this book as soon as it was published, and I sold it soon after. Suffice to say I had a very mitigated impression after reading it. There are good things in it, but also some very bad stuff. It doesn’t describe how to write your ultimate game engine, but the author’s game engine. What about some modesty?

Let’s start with the bad stuff.

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What an appetizing title! This book is part of an O’Reilly serie that treats a lot of interesting topic. Contrary to Beautiful Code, this one is much shorter but the title suggest it is much more pragmatic.
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Since this post, Intel has officially released Parallel Studio. This is why I’ve published a new, up-to-date review here.

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Strategy games are the type of games I prefer. Turn-based or real-time, they share some common ground. This book tries to explain them.
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I’ve promised to make an update whenever I would find a solution to the problem I had some months ago when I tried to use the latest MKL with numpy. Well, there was a simple hack that did the trick. It is far from being perfect, but at least, the tests pass now.
So the only thing you have to do is to export the LD_PRELOAD variable:

export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/the/MKL/lib/libmkl_core.so

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IronPython is the first dynamic language developed for the .Net plateform. At first, .Net didn’t support this kind of language. This is something that keeps on coming back througout the book: you have to use some additional tricks to unleash the power of .Net dynamic and static languages.
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Some months ago, I’ve decided to dig into raytracing, and more exactly interactive raytracing. So I’ve started writting my own library, based on several publications.
nVidia announced recently its own framework, Intel wants also to do raytracing on Larrabee, it is the current trend.
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I got my hand on an old edition of this book second edition, now the third is available), and it seemed to me a good place for game developers to start.
Mike McShaffry has a lot of experience from the game field, and his goal is to share it with the readers. In every chapter, there are some anecdots of his past, and it is a lot of fun to see studios falling in the same pitfalls than we do when we start coding.

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