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| Developer Journal - 3 weeks, 5 days ago Musings on Epoch features - By ApochPiQ I'll just leave this here...//// Define a recursive structure for a singly linked list//// A list must contain at least one element. If empty lists// are desired in a given context, use the alg... |
| Status Update - 3 weeks, 5 days ago Krohm Dropping my legacy world format. It was about time... |
| Developer Journal - 4 weeks, 1 hour ago It's Finally Here! - By ApochPiQ I've finally launched Release 12 of the Epoch programming language!Go check out the sources and binaries and also the full web site .I'll be working on updating the wiki and getting s... |
| Developer Journal - 4 weeks, 2 hours ago Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land - By Gaiiden I'm really having more trouble than I would like getting this out at a reasonable time on Sunday evenings. Is anyone really annoyed at this? Should I switch back to Fridays? Ooh I know - a poll... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 day ago Software at Scale: Practice Like You Play - By ApochPiQ I recently learned an interesting lesson in developing software that needs to scale to large capacities.I can't get into the specifics of what I was working on, but the essential facts are more... |
| Developer Journal - 1 month, 2 days ago Epoch Release 12 - Final Phases of Preparation! - By ApochPiQ At long last, the checklist of major items to do for Epoch Release 12 is empty!There are a few lingering TODOs in the code which I will probably try and knock out over the next few days, and th... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 4 days ago Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land - By Gaiiden Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 4/8- 4/16Featured GDNet+ http://members.gamedev.net/gaiiden/logo+%20bullet.png Journal Entry Every Semicolon - Matt Carr has posted several mo... |
| Status Update - 1 month, 5 days ago Promit Anybody local to me have a Nikon digital SLR body? I want to check a lens I've got. |
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| Status Update - 1 month, 6 days ago Confirm4Crit I'm at the copyright office.....online! |
| Developer Journal - 1 month, 6 days ago Homing in on Epoch Release 12 - By ApochPiQ The task list for Epoch Release 12 continues to shrink!Right now there are basically six major things that definitely need to be done before I'd even consider shipping the release:Operator... |
| Developer Journal - 1 month, 6 days ago Glimpse: updated progress - By Net Gnome Well, I've spent the past week or so futzing around working on Glimpse. I've got the core pieces for the most part complete or at least 95% there.So here is a video showing the progress:[no... |
| Status Update - 1 month, 1 week ago sirkibble2 Body Modeling/Shaman Update http://t.co/Fd9I87Gu |
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| Status Update - 1 month, 1 week ago sirkibble2 Studying With A New Direction for body modeling http://t.co/iUj8X5g0 |
| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 week ago New scribbling! - By ApochPiQ A while ago I launched a site called Scribblings by Apoch with the intent of occasionally publishing little bits and pieces of useful code that didn't have any other particularly appropriate h... |
| Status Update - 1 month, 1 week ago Confirm4Crit So bored Help xD |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 week ago Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land - By Gaiiden Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 4/1- 4/8Featured GDNet+ http://members.gamedev.net/gaiiden/logo+%20bullet.png Journal EntryBlue stain - alfith has converted one of his gamepl... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 week ago Epoch runtime: now with StupidFast™ technology - By ApochPiQ Did some more experimentation with LLVM and Epoch's JIT system; and damn I am pleased with the results.After finally muddling through enough of the llvm-opt source code to figure out how to ord... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 week ago Glimpse: an XNA & ECS UI Framework - By Net Gnome So, when I've had the free time I've been working on my UI framework for Vaerydian. I've been fairly busy, so i haven't gotten much done yet. At least nothing that I can really show... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 month, 1 week ago LLVM Madness - By ApochPiQ More hackery on Epoch/LLVM integration today; got some very promising results.For comparison: at the end of my hacking marathon the other night, I had the VM running at about 950ms for the benchmar... |
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| Status Update - 1 month, 2 weeks ago sirkibble2 Torso Study: The Rib Cage and the Six Pack http://t.co/wT16auU3 |
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