Today's Question:  What does your personal desk look like?        GIVE A SHOUT

 ALL


  UDP vs. TCP

IntroductionHi, I’m Glenn Fiedler and welcome to the first article in my online book Networking for Game ProgrammersIn this article we start with the most basic aspect of network programming, sending and receiving data over the network. This is just the beginning – the simplest and most basic part of what network programmers do, but still it is quite intricate and non-obvious as to what the best course of action is. Take care because if you get this part wrong it will have terrible effects on your multiplayer game!You have most likely heard of sockets, and are probably aware that...

3,285 0       DESIGN GAME DESIGN COMMUNICATION NETWORKING TCP UDP


  Python threads: communication and stopping

A very common doubt developers new to Python have is how to use its threads correctly. Specifically, a large amount of questions on StackOverflow show that people struggle most with two aspects:How to stop / kill a threadHow to safely pass data to a thread and backI already have a blog post touching on these issues right here, but I feel it’s too task-specific for sockets, and a more basic and general post would be appropriate. I assume the reader has a basic familiarity with Python threads, i.e. has at least went over the documentation.So, without further ado, here’s a sample "w...

2,946 0       PYTHON MULTITHREADING COMMUNICATION SYNCHRONIZE


  Key challenges in Agile implementations

7Share6inShareAgile methodology was supposed to be a solution to solve all of our problems. But it looks like it’s not. Some issues appear when companies start to implement Agile in their organizations. A research has been done on seventeen companies using Agile methodology (People over processes: Key people challenges in Agile Development). Authors chose nine of the most often reported issues. I’d like to focus on four, in my opinion, most important.#1 Developer fear caused by transparency of skill deficienciesThe Progress of each team member’s work is usually rep...

2,627 0       BUSINESS COMMUNICATION AGILE DEVELOPMENT CHANLLENGE


  Why is Design the Body Language of the Web?

Good web design is not just about the looks. It is also about the message being delivered to the user and this is probably much more important that it being pretty. Designing a visual message which will contain text has to be easily understood by the people you deliver that message to.Given this, you have to master the method of connecting to the people that visit your website. Besides knowing what they want and what they are looking for, you will have to know how to make it comfortable for them to find the information they need. Whether we are talking about super tech geeks or computer illite...

1,851 0       WEB DESIGN CONNECTION COMMUNICATION BODY LANGUAGE VISUAL FOCUS


  Python for the Web

Python is the best language in the world for interacting with the web, and I'm going to show you why.This article will give an extremely high level overview of how to use python for the web. There are many ways you can interact with the web using python, and this post will cover all of them. This includes python web scraping, interacting with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and running your own python web site using python server software. There are many ways to do all these things in python, but I'm going to show you how to do it the right way using the most modern te...

2,269 0       INTERACTION WEB PYTHON COMMUNICATION NETWORK