The title may seem more controversial than I really intend, but I think it fits with the situation that I have recently encountered. I was going through each of the sample applications in Hieroglyph 3 after applying a user supplied patch, and I noticed that the frame rate of the MirrorMirror sample had...

I've spent the better part of the last week or so working on getting the Hieroglyph 3 code base set up to respond to window sizing events. It is substantially easier to resize a window (in the rendering world this is equivalent to resizing a swap chain) in D3D11 than it used to be in D3D9, but there is still some gotchas involved in the process. Due...

After using Hieroglyph 3 for a while now, and especially after doing some refactoring of the sample programs, I have had a chance to revisit some of the design choices that I made while building the library. Some things work extraordinarily well, and some things not so much... But after gaining more...

It has been a really busy couple of weeks... Between trying to watch as many of the BUILD sessions as possible, downloading and trying out Windows 8, also doing some traveling (we were in Berlin for the weekend), plus actually doing some work on Hieroglyph 3, I have been really burning the midnight oil. ...

Direct3D 11.1 New Features (Part I)

With some new details of Direct3D 11.1 becoming available over the past couple of days, there are some interesting new capabilities being built into the API. The two new additions that seem to provide big functional changes are: 1. The...

I have wanted to update to Visual Studio 2010 for Hieroglyph for quite some time. Ultimately, several people asked for VS2010 support on the codeplex website, so I finally took the time to convert the projects from VS2008. That, plus I had a long layover when flying back from Spain, so I had to do something... (as a side note, developing on a netbook is...

For a variety of different reasons, I am building a website for Hieroglyph 3. It has been a long time coming, and I am starting to get involved more and more in web programming, so the task seems appropriate for me right now. The site is based on WordPress, and is currently being put together on the free WordPress.com service until I get further ...

After being unusually quiet lately, I have finally managed to get some time to post about what I've been up to. At work, I've been introduced to the amazingly simple world of web services which is great - I have wanted to do some web programming for a long time, and this has satisfied that need. Perhaps more interesting to the readers of this...