Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Using Bitmasks in a Groups Permission System

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

As promised in my previous post, this article will describe a practical application of bitmasks, in this particular case for usage in a permission system on a webapplication. This particular application is a social network site, in which a user can create a joinable group. Each group has four usergroups ...

The Lost Art of Bitmasks

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

In this article, I will attempt to explain the so-called bitmasks, and the application of the binary operators (such as &, |, << and >>) found in pretty much every programming language. I myself have been in my education for four years now, but only last year or so did ...

The C4 Engine

Monday, July 14th, 2008

During the last 20 weeks (February to June '08), I and 7 other people have been working on a game project (both for university points and for this online group of dudes that started the creation of this particular game), 2 of them programmers, 5 of them artsy fags media ...