Death tests in GTest and Visual Leak Detector

If you've ever tried to employ automatic memory leaks tracking in GTest using VLD , then, it must be, you've already faced problems with Death Tests.

StiX Json - extremely fast Json Parser

StiX Json is extremely fast json parser with nice C++ API.

StiX Json pros:

• very fast;
• it is lightweight - only 2 files, totally around 700 lines of code;
• it allocates memory in huge blocks (ideal for memory pages) using provided allocator;
• it tries to predict memory requirements to minimize the amount of allocations;
• it is open source under MIT license.

Instancing on iOS! Finally!

Yesterday, at WWDC, Apple revealed iOS 7.  Guess what? They introduced new extensions - GL_APPLE_draw_instanced and GL_APPLE_instanced_arrays. So you can omit instancing spikes, the half of this blog is describing.

Learn iOS Game Optimization. Ultimate Guide

 iPhone Game optimization best practices. Optimization mathods, that will let you to get maximum out of hardware. NEON code vectorization. PowerPoint presentation

Who requested mips?!

Not me! But iOS OpenGL ES driver still allocates memory for mip levels! This old bug wasn't fixed in iOS 5 GM! What a shame, Apple!

Non OpenGL ES 2.0 standard compliant iOS

Unfortunately iOS driver is not fully compliant with OpenGL ES 2.0 standard.

iPhone and Audio Sessions issues

There is a strange hard to find bug related to resuming your audio session on iPhone. When you application was interrupted by incoming call sometimes the system won't let you to restore your audio session. This article will describe weird tip.