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Outline for Chapter on Bot Fighting and Anti Reverse Engineering

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[rabbit_ddmog vol=”8″ chap=”Outline of Chapter 29 from “beta” Volume VIII”] As I am speaking on CPPCON2017 on Friday, I didn’t have time to prepare the next chapter of “Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”. Still, I have a fairly interesting piece of information to share; it is a planned outline for one of the […]

#CPPCON2017 Day 0: IMO best posters

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Very short report from day 0 of CPPCON2017. Registration reception was lively (with Gor Nishanov being the star of the show, but lots of the other interesting people were noticed, I even spotted <da-dum /> Bjarne Himself). There were posters, and while some were well, not to my taste (example: IMNSHO, a global deadlock detection […]

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Choosing Version Control System for MOG development

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Quote: “For game development (and unlike most of other software development projects), you’re likely to have binary files which need to be edited (representing so-called “assets”)”
Another Quote: “for open-source games, Git does have a Very Significant Advantage™”
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MOGdev: to feature branch or not to feature branch?

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Quote: “As a rule of thumb, for gamedev we DO need to have our version control to be easily usable by non-developers.”
Another Quote: “it is the second developer to commit who becomes a rotten egg responsible for resolving conflicts”
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OLTP Optimization Cheat Sheets for dbdevs and DBAs

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Quote: “Have I already mentioned that you DO need to understand execution plans?”
Another Quote: “DO keep in mind that maintaining indexes has its own cost”
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DB Execution Plans for C++/Java Developers, and for anybody who has read Knuth

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Quote: “If I was a compiler-with-ability-to-create-indexes-as-I-need-it – what would I do to make The Ideal Execution Plan™ for this request?”
Another Quote: “When we have that ideal-execution-plan – we still need to convince our SQL compiler to use it”
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Understanding Correlated and Uncorrelated Sub-queries in SQL

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Quote: “A correlated sub-query is a type of query, where inner query depends upon the outcome of the outer query in order to perform its execution.”
Another Quote: “Correlated sub-queries are slower.”
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