Byte Nibble: Joe's Random Musings

As I have made clear in my some of my previous posts I’m very interested in concurrent and parallel programming. There are many problems in achieving good parallel code which I discussed in my post on Concurrency in the Games Industry. Recently I have...

The Background Babble When I started this blog I promised myself I would post once a week, I have already broken that promise after only two posts. The last couple of weeks have been extremely busy for me; I tidied my apartment properly for the...

Ever since I played my first Massively-Multiplayer game I have been addicted. Not to the games, but to know how they can possibly work. Managing thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of simultaneous players is no small feat. When I moved to the games...

So, my very first post on my shiny new blog! I should probably say a little about me otherwise nobody will know who I am or what I do and that might be sort of pointless... My name is Joe Hegarty and I'm a Network Programmer at Lionhead Studios which...