{"id":27,"date":"2005-09-25T13:12:29","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T17:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2005-09-25T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-25T17:12:29","slug":"raknet-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/09\/25\/raknet-update\/","title":{"rendered":"RakNet update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakkarsoft.com\">RakNet<\/a> to version 2.4.  Memory requirements have dropped by 25 times.  That&#8217;s pretty huge.  I also fixed some serious bugs that have been there for a year now.  That is the thing about eating your own dog food. It has to be very tasty or you won&#8217;t eat it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It seems like RakNet is growing in popularity too.  I&#8217;ve gotten some pokes before &#8211; like the Reality Engine uses it.  But now Day 1 Studios wants to use RakNet for their next-gen games too.  This is a huge boost to me from a marketing standpoint.  I have to admit their contracting offer is tempting.  I much prefer working from home (if that is indeed what they are offering) and I much prefer working with RakNet.<\/p>\n<p>At my current job I&#8217;m tired of writing technical design documents, waiting a week for a response that shows it wasn&#8217;t read carefully, and then rewriting trivial points to add unnecessary detail.   I have nothing against TDDs.  However there&#8217;s a certain point where you just need to write the code and figure things out as you discover them.  When I was planning out my server mesh topology I did a TDD and did solve problems.  But did I think of everything in advance?  No and that was the optimal situation where I understand all systems and wrote all code.  You need to solve problems at the level of information you have.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I updated RakNet to version 2.4. Memory requirements have dropped by 25 times. That&#8217;s pretty huge. I also fixed some serious bugs that have been there for a year now. That is the thing about eating your own dog food. It has to be very tasty or you won&#8217;t eat it \ud83d\ude42 It seems like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}