Matthieu Brucher's blog

Due to the end of the free lunch, manufacturers started to provide differents processing units and developers started to go parallel. It’s kind of back to the future, as accelerators existed before today (the x87 FPU started as a coprocessor, for instance). If those accelerators were integrated into the CPU, their instruction set were also.

Today’s accelerators are not there yet. The tools are not ready yet (code translators) and usual programming practices may not be adequate. All the ecosystem will evolve, accelerators will change (GPUs are the main trend, but they will be different in a few years), so what you will do today needs to be shaped with these changes in mind. How is it possible to do so? Is it even possible?
Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

No Comments yet »

Test-Driven Development is one of the most controversial development processes. Instead of planning everything ahead, you develop your program incrementally as well as simultaneously and rigorously test it. Kent Beck is one of the most proeminent advocates of this method and this book is the Bible of TDD.

Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

No Comments yet »

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.

Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

No Comments yet »

After last week book review on Martin Fowler’s Refactoring, I’d like to review another book, more oriented towards patterns and refactoring.
Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

No Comments yet »

I’ve read this book when I started my PhD thesis. It helped me laying down the basis of software conception.

It was the first book where I found the code smell concept. And my former code really smelt…
Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

No Comments yet »

If last week’s book review was too complicated for you, perhaps this book is more suited for you. Less design patterns, but a funnier way to describe them.
Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

No Comments yet »

As I’ve said before, I’ve done several book reviews in the past. I will start with a small serie on design patterns books.

This book is one of the “must-have” in your library. If you write some code or if you manage some IT or Computer Science projects, you will have this book to lay down the basic software architecture.
Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

1 Comment »

Like other programming models, there are some patterns in selecting the right parallel solution when it comes to designing a parallel application. This is what this book is about. The solutions may be obvious, but patterns aften are.
Continue Reading »

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

1 Comment »