Category Archives: C#

MonoGame OpenGL Has 800×480 Screen During Initialize

Posted on July 13, 2013 by James McParlane

There seems to be a workflow issue at the startup of a MonoGame app in Windows using OpenGL. The solution seems to be to perform your own initialisation on the viewport. The issue is that during Initialize() your app seems convinced … Continue reading →

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Another Windows Socket Limitation Fix

Posted on August 6, 2007 by James McParlane

I have a secret project that I’m putting through non functional testing at the moment. Its ftping around 600,000 files in the space of a few hours – which means its violating the 4000 sockets in 4 minutes limitation in windows. … Continue reading →

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Reason – Exciting New C++ Library For Internet Applications

Posted on February 9, 2007 by James McParlane

I’ve been waiting for Emerson Clarke to GPL this library since he started sending me code samples via IM a few years ago. If you really want to squeeze every last nanoflop of performance out of your hardware then you need … Continue reading →

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And Old Bug In Windows CRT – time() Is Affected By Timezone Change

Posted on November 8, 2006 by James McParlane

The standard C run-time (CRT) time() function for windows is documented thus “The time function returns the number of seconds elapsed since midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970, coordinated universal time, according to the system clock. The return value is stored in the … Continue reading →

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No Mozilla Protocol Plug-in Example Or Documentation

Posted on January 18, 2006 by James McParlane

http://www.mail-archive.com/mozilla-netlib@mozilla.org/msg02102.html So looks like I’m giving up on Mozilla development of a protocol plugin in C++ – the platform is simply just not mature enough to develop against. I have wasted 4 hours of my life only to find that someone has … Continue reading →

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select () poll() semantics

Posted on October 5, 2005 by James McParlane

If I want to use a simple counting semaphore then what happens when I want to wait on both reads and writes? The theory goes that both READ and WRITE will Post to the semaphore for their particular semantic states. Read posts … Continue reading →

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Semaphore vs Monitor

Posted on November 9, 2004 by James McParlane

Trying to decide what kind of counting syncronisation object I should use for my buffer polling expansion to the CNI (see two posts down).In my travels I found a lively and mostly misguided debate of monitors vs semaphores so decided to … Continue reading →

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Unix Signals And C++ Exceptions Living Together

Posted on September 28, 2004 by James McParlane

“Signals and exceptions don’t mix well, and should be considered seperately. While you can define an exception-based “wrapper” for signals, such code is not portable, because C++ does not guarantee that a signal-handling function is able to interact with any … Continue reading →

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mutable in C++

Posted on September 20, 2004 by James McParlane

I’ve gone back to some refactoring for a few days to solve a problem that has been annoying me for a while. The solution is found in some C++ arcana that I always used to avoid due to porting issues, … Continue reading →

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