February. San Francisco. Game Developers Conference . If you're there on Monday, I'm doing a couple of talks . If you arrive later in the week, or are busy on Monday ( what? Too busy to learn about networking and framework performance? Shame on you!!...

Correlation, or just a curious coincidence?

People like to argue about the respective merits of client/server versus peer-to-peer network topologies, but personally I think this is the wrong debate. Who says you have to pick just one? I'm a big fan of hybrids that combine the best of both worlds...

There is only one way to take up less space than a cunningly compressed network packet, and that is if you don't send any data at all. Obviously, when you send no data, things are unlikely to remain in sync from one machine to another. But you know...