27 May 2010
OK, so I needed a filler while I finalize changes to the next installment to the floating-to-fixed point series 
But hey, this is all good, if not varied, information.
25 May 2010
First, in the interest of being honest and not putting myself above other web developers, I must admit to using tables on this website in the past. Even worse, before that I used frames, but that is another topic
I have been advocating the use of CSS instead of tables for layout for over six years after I was convinced by several articles on the subject. This has been considered a web ‘best practice’ for many years now, so it is very surprising that so many websites STILL use them for layout. I see several reasons this is so: Read the rest of this entry »
10 May 2010
Many people have asked questions similar to this:
When I get into winsock in globalization, I found out winsock.h has a lot of different data structure if _UNICODE turned on. But, there is no function support those data types. such as gethostbyname(…) only take const char FAR * name. How could I call gethostbyname when _UNICODE turned on in Visual C++?
My reply: Read the rest of this entry »
6 May 2010
Floating point to fixed point code conversion – Part 2: Preparing your code
Programming, Speech/Voice Compression 2 CommentsSee Part 1 for an introduction to fixed point code, and the reasons you may need to use it.
Starting off with clean, fully debugged, fully functional, and stable floating point code is a must. Fixed point code can be harder to interpret, so you do not want to be modifying the converted code every time you correct or add a feature to the original code. It is even better to start off with code that has not been heavily hand-optimized since it will be easier to understand and convert. Of course, make sure your algorithms are efficient and you are not doing something stupid like scanning through arrays non-sequentially and getting a ton of cache misses Read the rest of this entry »
3 May 2010
Mike asked:
I have a question about the loss of UDP datagrams. System setup like below:
/-------------\ Crossover /-------------\ | System A | <------------> | System B | | 192.168.0.1 | Cable | 192.168.0.2 | \-------------/ 100MB/s \-------------/
If I have a test program to send UPD datagrams across this connection, assuming I am not overloading the link, should I expect any datagram loss? Read the rest of this entry »