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Understanding Spacial Locality of Reference

Simply changing the order in which you loop when accessing memory can lead to a performance gain. The difference comes from the way you access contiguous memory in the loop. By reading memory that is sequential, memory access is faster. This article explains why.

Play Online: Xordio, the musical game of reflexes

Xordio, the musical game of reflexes. Play online: Xordio is a browser-based HTML5 game where you must hit the correct note within the time limit to play the music and get a massive high score!

Circular Buffer C Implementation

A circular buffer or ring buffer is a fixed-size data structure that wraps from end to end. It is ideal for buffering keyboard input or streaming data, like real-time sound or video, where old data is unimportant. C source code included.

Free Download: Christmas Jigsaw

This Christmas, play Christmas Jigsaw! A free game download, suitable for all ages.

Introducing the MCC Modular C Collection

Introducing the MCC Modular C Collection: an open source selection of clean, unobtrusive, portable and modular includes for the C programming language.

Poxml.c - Plain Old XML Parser for C

Poxml is a fast, light and open source library that can parse "plain old XML" for the C Programming Language.

ReplaceString.c

A function to replace any string (needle) with a string (replacement) within a string (haystack), with the C programming language.

Realtime SVG Engine Techdemo

A tech demo for a real-time Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) engine for the Cobra programming language.

Algorithm to Draw a Line of Arbitrary Thickness

By modifying Bresenham's line algorithm to plot rectangles instead of pixels, it is possible to draw lines of any thickness.

Extract Coordinates from a String

Given a string, I needed to extract the coordinate point-pairs. I wrote a simple parser to do this. Source code provided.

Poxml - Plain Old XML Parser

Poxml is an open source library that can parse "plain old XML" for the Cobra Programming Language (also ported to C).

Hero Extant RSS feed and subreddit

Just a note to say that new Hero Extant updates will be posted to /r/hex/. You can get this feed as RSS.