Coding on Arcanelab Blog

Handles are the better pointers

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:08:00 +0200

Unity3D: Mythbusting performance

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:15:00 +0200

Antimon C64 coding tutorials

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:48:00 +0200

Obsessive Coding Disorder, Julian Storer - JUCE Summit keynote 2015

Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:49:00 +0100

Julian Storer, the founder of JUCE, rewrites one of the most used C library in the world, Zlib. In doing so, Julian showcases the coding standards that apply to the JUCE library. Watch on to see how many lines of code Julian managed to reduce Zlib to, while improving drastically the readability of the code and removing all dependencies.

A Selection of Swift iOS Libraries https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire…

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:56:00 +0200

A Selection of Swift iOS Libraries

https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire
https://github.com/Alamofire/AlamofireImage
https://github.com/naoty/Timepiece
https://github.com/radex/SwiftyUserDefaults
https://github.com/pkluz/PKHUD
https://github.com/krzyzanowskim/CryptoSwift
https://github.com/robb/Cartography
https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON
https://github.com/duemunk/Async

iOS Design Patterns

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:22:00 +0200

strtk -C++ String Toolkit Library

Wed, 25 May 2016 22:56:00 +0200

C++ Modules — Clang 3.9 documentation

Tue, 17 May 2016 15:08:00 +0200

Top 10 dumb mistakes to avoid with C++ 11 smart pointers

Sun, 15 May 2016 13:16:00 +0200

Beware the UIKit Visitors!

Sat, 14 May 2016 12:33:00 +0200

Hopper + lldb for iOS Developers: A Gentle Introduction

Sat, 14 May 2016 12:31:00 +0200

Xcode's Plugin Interface : Build Settings

Thu, 12 May 2016 15:54:00 +0200

Linking an OSX external bundle with a .dylib library

Thu, 12 May 2016 13:53:00 +0200

Clang Environment variable for linker path

Wed, 04 May 2016 22:37:00 +0200

C++ Has Become More Pythonic

Sun, 01 May 2016 06:10:00 +0200

AmigaOS Documentation Wiki

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:30:00 +0200

15 Fundamental Laws of Software Development

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:55:00 +0200

Sprite Tricks » Codetapper's Amiga Retro Site!

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:29:00 +0200

Lou's Pseudo 3d Page

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:35:00 +0200

Poems for bugs

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:49:00 +0200

Poems for bugs - A seminar held by lft at Revision 2013

Platforms come and go, but the C64 remains.

This is a seminar about the beauty of C64 coding, how it relates to other human endeavours, and why it is as culturally relevant as ever. We will see how, for thousands of years, people have meticulously crafted works of art in a waning tradition that, perhaps unexpectedly, lives on through C64 coding.

While there are clear connections between the demoscene and the visual arts and music, little has been said about the literary skills of the coder. Skills that, unfortunately, have lost their significance on modern platforms.

Don’t miss this extraordinary programming seminar for coders and non-coders alike.

How to convert an integer to a hexadecimal string in C++ int number = 42; stringstream…

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:58:00 +0100

How to convert an integer to a hexadecimal string in C++

int number = 42;
stringstream ss;
ss << hex << number;
// now ss.str(), which is a string, contains "2a"

C/C++ trick with logical operators Let me show a nice C/C++ trick I just found out:…

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:14:00 +0200

C/C++ trick with logical operators

Let me show a nice C/C++ trick I just found out:

Instead of writing:

if (function1())
 function2();

you could write:

function1() && function2();

because the right side of the && operator is only evaluated (in this case: called), when function1() is true (returns a non-null value).

Subsequently, instead of:

if (!function1()) // or if (function1()==0) etc.
 function2();

you could write:

function1() || function2();

Cool, eh?