A technical blog from Daniel Rákos (aka aqnuep)
Never seen flexibility for Delphi
Jan 22nd
As far as I can tell people still prefer using python for scripting in their Delphi projects. This is probably because python scripting in Delphi has a long history and it is a proven method with easy integration. What if I would tell you that there is a free solution which enables you to write also your scripts in pascal? A few years ago I discovered an alternative that makes this possible. This highly influenced my vision about the importance of scripting. Since that I accompanied all my hobby projects with full scripting support.
Exploit parallelism with the least effort
Jan 19th
Multiprocessing has been there for decades as a premium feature for enterprise applications but adopting this technology still brings huge burden to software companies that still maintain and develop legacy code. Nowadays, as most commodity hardware already have highly parallelized architectures, a modern application is almost unimaginable without proper multi-threading capabilities even if we talk about text editor or a multimedia application. The transition from traditional software development to multiprocessing is not an easy and painless task. Fortunately we have such tools in our hand like OpenMP.
Uniform Buffers VS Texture Buffers
Jan 18th
OpenGL 3.1 introduced two new sources from where shaders can retrieve their data, namely uniform buffers and texture buffers. These can be used to accelerate rendering when heavy usage of application provided data happens like in case of skeletal animation, especially when combined with geometry instancing. However, even if the functionality is in the core specification for about a year now, there are few demos out there to show their usage, as so, there is a big confusion around when to use them and which one is more suitable for a particular use case.
Unit testing in C++
Jan 11th
Many people are looking for information about which particular C++ unit testing framework they should use for their project and there are also many articles discuss the topic but few articles talk about mock frameworks which are even more important factor when applying unit testing in practice and they have much greater effect on the productivity when doing test-driven development.
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Manage code yourself
Jan 11th
Those who know me know it well that I am not a big fan of languages which produce managed code. In this article I would like to cover the reasons behind my skepticism. Also I would like to dispel the myths around such languages and try to prove them with facts (we will see how well I manage to achieve this). If you disagree with me, you’ll most probably hate me because of making this post but please, respect my personal point of view.
Calling Name Presentation
Jan 11th
There are plenty of mobile subscriber services available to the end user already but wondering why most of these are not really used by anyone and some of them are not even known by end users. There are some exceptions like the Selective Ring Back Tone which conquered quite big audience in the recent past. If you are interested what mobile network feature will be the big hit of the next few years you definitely have to read this article.