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Quake 3 Source Code Review

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Since I had one week before my next contract I decided to finish my “cycle of id”. After Doom, Doom Iphone, Quake1, Quake2, Wolfenstein iPhone and Doom3 I decided to read the last codebase I did not review yet:

idTech3 the 3D engine that powers Quake III and Quake Live.

via Quake 3 Source Code Review: Architecture.

I was particularly impressed by :

  • The virtual machines system and the associated toolchain that altogether account for 30% of the code released. Under this perspective idTech3 is a mini operating system providing system calls to three processes.
  • The elegant network system based on snapshots and memory introspection.

Lua is a proven, robust language

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Lua has been used in many industrial applications (e.g., Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom), with an emphasis on embedded systems (e.g., the Ginga middleware for digital TV in Brazil) and games (e.g., World of Warcraft). Lua is currently the leading scripting language in games. Lua has a solid reference manual and there are several books about it. Several versions of Lua have been released and used in real applications since its creation in 1993. Lua featured in HOPL III, the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, in June 2007.

via Lua: about.

SQL Developer – The Universal Database Frontend

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SQL Developer is a database administration and query tool that provides a single consistent interface for various databases.

Visually navigate through your database structure, create and execute SQL queries and scripts the easy way. Or reverse engineer complete data models with the integrated diagram editor.

via SQL Developer – The Universal Database Frontend.

Pion Core – The Open Source Stream Computing Platform

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Pion Core is an open source software platform for building stream computing (also known as complex event processing) applications. Pion uses the most modern C++ libraries and techniques to enable best in class enterprise scaleability. It can distribute processing tasks across any number of CPU cores as well as across disparate servers.

via Pion Core – The Open Source Stream Computing Platform | Pion Development Community.

version control – What’s the best Web interface for Git repositories?

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version control – What’s the best Web interface for Git repositories? – Stack Overflow.

  • gitweb, which is developed together with git, and is written in Perl. Works both as CGI script, and legacy mod_perl script. There is repo.or.cz duct tape (soon to be released as Girocco), which together with gitweb make for git hosting interface. I think it most commonly used web interface; it is used for example by kernel.org.
  • cgit is is a fast (caching) and lightweight webinterface written in C. It is used for example by freedesktop.org
  • git-php and ViewGit are git web interfaces written in PHP.