Software design !

Check this essay, it is about software design, by Jack W.Reeves, i think it's like "uh man, from what planet are you". A must read !!

Some articles

When we plan for software evolution, we need not fear product revolution. Using the concepts described in this paper, you can begin to design your business products so that they will be better able to quickly adapt to marketing challenges.
http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,31994,00.html

Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management - One of the reasons good management is so hard to learn is that much of management takes place behind closed doors. We’re going to open those doors and allow you to see great management in action.By Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby

Syndromes of Forgotten Programmers - The people who come and go in a software shop may eventually be forgotten, but the tracks programmers leave behind make a lasting impression.By Kevin Cauble

C U B A

CUBA LIBRE PARA TODOS !
20. - 28.9.2005
Spent a fortune, seen a lot of happy people.
The problem is that they have no access to any information in this world.
They live, and believe that someday will be better !
And it will be, it will be.

Heard a lot of The Beatles and even more salsa.
Need some noise now, to clear my mind !

Motorcycles

Keep the Pace, drive safe and always wave to bikers !

Any how, i have been rather busy working on some very interesting stuff i can not talk about.
There are plenty of shaders, HDR, some behavioral and dynamic animation, and a lot of AI.

Coding

I have re-written a sound capture plugin - that can capture from 4 stereo lines (8 channels max) and rewrote all blend shape calculation functions.
I have tried to do it in a simple way and do things realy fast.

Ah yes, multichannel sound comes from USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s) device capable of delivering 96kHz, but i am taking 44.1 only. Not that i would need this much for what i do with streams (8000 Hz would suffice)

When app was up and running, after all the characters were properly set, a sudden frame rate drop occured. Why ?

It seems that audio device completly slows down the computer.

Ah yes, did the proper material library for shaders. PS2.0
Diffuse,Phong,Blinn,Minnaert,Oren-Nayar, Ward,Schlick,Cook-Torrance.
Versions are: noTex,Tex,Bump,Environment+Bump

So shaders anyone ?