Category Archives: Code

Include dependencies

By Bob Somers | Published: December 21, 2009
Generally when I write software, I try to keep things relatively well organized. Inevitably, however, things are going to get a bit messy, especially if you’re working on a large, disorganized codebase that you didn’t write to begin with… say, oh… something like the Source SDK. Frequently you have some class which is composed inside another [...]
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Removing entities in the Source SDK

By Bob Somers | Published: October 24, 2009
I haven’t written for a while, mainly because I’ve been busy with classes and studying for the GRE for my grad school applications, but here’s a quick tip for those of you meddling around with the Source SDK. It’s well documented on how you go about spawning entities, but I couldn’t find a good place explaining [...]
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Awesome regex test tool

By Bob Somers | Published: September 4, 2009
So I’m working with a friend to develop a regex that matches something out of an API response, when we really wish we could quickly prototype a regex. Now, there are plenty of tools to do this, some are even freeware, but all them need to be downloaded and installed. I realize it sounds pathetic [...]
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Know your text editor

By Bob Somers | Published: July 22, 2009
Let’s examine why it’s important as a programmer to really know your text editor, but in a different light that usual. Traditionally programmers are concerned with knowing all the tricks of their editor so that they can make use of them. Instead, let’s look at an example of why you should know what your editor [...]
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Ban programmers, not functions

By Bob Somers | Published: July 7, 2009
So my daily travels around the intertubes landed me on a very interesting blog post by Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle team (which they call SDL, not to be confused with the arguably more useful Simple DirectMedia Layer library). The post centered around them adding memcpy() to the banned functions list in favor of their more [...]
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