Clockwork Codex

I recently found some old Fighting Fantasy gamebooks I remembered from my childhood. One in particular stood out as having seemed next to i...

I write and maintain mostly C# these days. I've been accumulating a list of annoyances. Whenever I come across a piece of code that make...

this in constructors Some quick C++ advice today, but I think it generalizes to C# and Java too. If you do anything with the this pointe...

Last week, Cedric Beust posted a new coding challenge : We want to make multiple calls to a site that only allows to use a key 500 times ...

I've been doing some Javascript recently (well, Coffeescript actually, but this applies equally to either, so I'll stick to Javascri...

I've not really done any programming lately, so this week there's no Minecraft. Instead there's some maths. Hurrah! Hey, where a...

Last time, I discussed ambient occlusion for adding depth to the map. Today I'm going to explain how the fragment shader rotates and fli...