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Monthly Archives: November 2017
The Covox years
I have covered various early sound solutions from the DOS/8088 era recently, including AdLib, Sound Blaster, PCjr/Tandy’s SN76489 chip, and the trusty old PC speaker itself. One device that has yet to be mentioned however, is the Covox Speech Thing. … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware news, Oldskool/retro programming
Tagged Covox, Crystal Dream, CVX-4, CVX4, CvxPlay, digital audio, dreamblaster, FastTracker, Modplay, retro, Serdaco, Serdashop, tracker, Triton, Trixter, Vogons
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Scali on Agile Development
I recently wrote The Pessimist Pamphlet. I said there: I agreed with most of the Agile principles and the underlying reasoning ‘Most of’? So not everything? Well, perhaps I should clarify this. So let’s first walk down the 4 main … Continue reading
Experience and skill in software development
I just spotted a number of hits from Ars Technica to my blog. It is a regular event that one of my blog posts gets posted in some online discussion, causing a noticeable spike in my statistics. When it does, … Continue reading
Posted in Software development
Tagged Agile, Ars Technica, assembly, bug, Code, computer, debug, design, machine code, machine language, Microsoft, patch, Pessimist Pamphlet, programming, skilled developer, software
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Software: How to parallel?
Software optimization has always been one of my favourite tasks in software development. However, the hardware you are optimizing for, is a moving target (unless of course you are doing retroprogramming/oldskool demoscening, where you have nicely fixed targets). That nice … Continue reading
Posted in Software development
Tagged dynamic parallelism, HyperThreading, latency, multi-core, optimization, parallel, scheduling, SMT, tasks, threading, threadpool, throughput
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