Elysian Shadows

"If you put your mind to it. You can accomplish anything." -Marty McFly, Back to the Future. Just remember there are people who have been homeless that have went to Harvard. Your life is what you make of it. Set a long term goal and then break that down into smaller pieces that will give ...

I'm still here. Mainly watching. Really busy with starting the home buying process.

In that case you may want to at least put a blurb on the main screen to the effect of this works with iPhone, iPod, etc.

I don't mean this to be mean, but I think you may lose out on users by limiting it to chrome and firefox browsers. WIndows users have IE out of the box and many people are too lazy to try to install a new browser (aka chrome or firefox.) Also you are cutting out many iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch use...

I have setup a wordpress blog to use for my website, but find myself in need of a nice banner/header image. Is there someone that could help me with this? The blog/site is at http://www.mattheweston.net I need something for the top to go behind my name and the subtitle. I'm looking for something cla...

I have a recruiter that is in the process of scheduling an interview and he told me that I need to have a code sample ready. Seeing as I have not had to do this before has anyone ever been in a situation where you've either had to submit a code sample or better yet asked a candidate to bring on in f...

What do you guys like in puzzle games say you have a tetris game do you like to see a story that adds to the puzzle game? Different game boards/backgrounds/themes?

What makes you say I just gotta download/buy that game when it comes to puzzle games?

So compilers don't introduce new overhead they just compile the overhead that is already there in the code.

I can see where this would be beneficial if you had a 1 to 1 ratio of if..else's replacing try...catch blocks, but what if you had several if...elses that would be in a block of code where one try...catch could take care of it? Wouldn't many if..else's be more expensive than one try...catch?

So my assumption is incorrect? Its the Try...catch that actually causes that behavior instead of the actual error itself?

But let's say you have a method to do something bool erroredMethod() { bool isSuccessful = false; do something; do something; //if this causes an out of memory error(read exception) then the rest of the code doesn't execute do something; isSuccessful = true; // how can this be set then ? }

We've had several discussions here about various areas where overhead can creep into a program. I'd like to propose the following questions to the community. What types of overhead can you get from various compilers? Are there benefits to using Visual Studio to compile your code versus gcc or g++ ? ...

I think I get what you are saying but, it would be nice to see a snippet of code as an example.

Pardon my ignorance, but how would you gracefully handle an exception error with a simple if...else ? Wouldn't the exception cause the app to crash? The only alternative would be to identifiy every possible scenario for bad parameters and elimitate them. I'm sure I'm missing something. Maybe Falco c...

I'm looking for books to add to my reading list and was actually leaning toward design patterns and algorithms. Any recommendations? Would it be worth while to look at anything specific to game development ?