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January 2008 - Posts

Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:42 AM

Going to GDC?

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!!!

Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 6 Comments

Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:30 PM

Blog post frequency

Correlation, or just a curious coincidence?

Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 3 Comments

Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:00 AM

Network object ownership

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.

Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 3 Comments

Tuesday, January 01, 2008 12:01 AM

Network compression: just say no!

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 what?

Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 10 Comments

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