Well the new thing added to the code library today are streambuf helper classes. They're a pair of classes that derive from streambuf that implement buffering code. The OStreamBuf class adds a pure virtual method, do_write() and the IStreamBuf class adds a do_read(). Basically these get called when…

I've started to get slightly burned out on the personal library recoding thing. Well, burned out isn't quite the right description; it's more like I feel need to take a break and do something less predictable. So, I figure I'd alternate with something a little light: re-doing dodecahellspawn.

As I'v…

I was a bum and did almost nothing today. Well, I did some moderating stuff, but who cares about that? But I'm updating my journal anyways, basically just to bump it so that I can tell at a glance if any of the other developer journals have been updated when I next visit.

Actually, I did one vaguely…

It's been one of those days. I've spent the last hour trying to track down a bug that didn't exist. I wrote the code *perfectly* the first time around, but I screwed up the test case in such a subtle manner that it seemed like the class invariants got borked.

In any case, the current item being fold…

Ignore it, I say!

Despite the fact you can't actually create new operators in C++, it's possible to create new "psuedo-operators". Warning: bad code ahead.

Let's say you're a game developer working on your first 3D engine. One of the classes you're going to write is a vector class. It might look something like:

class…

Well, comments for journal entries seem to have been mostly implemented. There are a few details to be worked out, but for the most part they seem to be working fine. Incidently, if you were reading my journal at 3:00 this morning when we were testing the commenting facility, you have my deepest sy…

And that bitch Jenny totally blew me off today. I hate that. You'd think that she'd at least be able to say hello or something. It's not like she needed stitches afterwards or anything.

I had chicken with rice for dinner tonight. It was ok, the sauce was kind of strong.

I swear the next door neighbors' dog hasn't moved in a week. I think it might be dead.

One thing I've noticed about singletons in C++ is that they're usually used to solve two related problems: the one only one object of a class problem and the order of initialization problem. Of the two, the order of initialization problem is probably more significant, but rarely gets any fanfare. T…