I’ve been trying my hand at a few hackerrank problems, and ran into one that didn’t discuss a solution I was satisfied with. The problem in question is called Bigger is Greater. [Read More]

Using the same Typeless Container we architected in Blog Post #3, we can make a kick-ass config system that can accept any type of variable. Here’s the header of the container, with a few key changes: Instead of a vector, we will be accessing the generic type wrapper with an... [Read More]

Do silly constructs like “classes” sometimes get in the way of your programming? Are loosely typed languages “too loose” for you? Well boy, do I have a blog post for you! I was fiddling around with my OpenGL game engine and decided to make a container that can store and... [Read More]

Have you ever wanted to identify a class simply by supplying a string? You and me both, buddy. I was working on a personal game project and I wanted to define a level by feeding the program a CSV file containing the spatial layout. I identify different types of enemy... [Read More]

Thread Contention in C++ A huge sticking point in multi-threaded programming is concurrent access of the same variable. The simple solution to this problem is to create a mutex, and lock the mutex in any part of code that touches your “danger” variable. A slightly more sophisticated access pattern is... [Read More]