Posts related to software and Unity Assets development using the .Net and C# technology stack.
I shipped CardinalityEstimation 1.15.0 to NuGet today – the largest batch of changes the library has seen, with twenty-one changes all landing together. The theme this release is “tighten the screws everywhere”: real bugs in the concurrent estimator, real allocations in the hot path, and a serializer that wasn’t safe to point at untrusted input. … Read more
If you’re looking to improve the performance of your C# Unity game, there are many resources out there that talk about performance in Unity. These usually focus on things like better usage of the Unity APIs, better managing your objects, and reducing the size of your resources. Some articles also discuss better ways to write … Read more
Both WebDAVClient and CardinalityEstimation released with .Net Core support and other fixes and improvements.
As I promised last week, I’ve released a WebDAV client for Unity3d to the Asset Store. The asset is based on my C# client, with some adjustments to make it more Unity-like, such as providing the client as a ScriptableObject, and some Unity Editor integration. Visit the WebDAV for Unity page, or in the Asset Store … Read more
I’ve finally got around to merge some pull requests I’ve received for my WebDAV Client repository (and NuGet package). This release brings the library to version 1.1.4, and includes the following new features: Partial download and upload support (courtesy of phobeus) Copy file/folder (thanks to mkuennek) Over the last couple of months, I’ve seen a bit more … Read more
This is another post in my TV Shows Trivia game serie. In our last post we used TvMaze to retrieve information about various tv shows. After retrieving around 1600 shows, I came to the conclusion that the data was a bit too much – it’s not enough to have the data, we need to be able … Read more
In our previous post we discussed representing TV shows data as a graph using objects and their relations. In this post, we’ll see how to gather the information needed for our trivia game. There are a few websites that allow you to follow up on the show you watch, such as Rotten Tomatoes and TheTvDB. I’ve … Read more
Following my trivia games, I’ve decided to start working on a TV shows trivia. The first step of creating a trivia game, is to make sure I have enough data, and that I can represent it in a way that my engine can generate questions.Representing the data for TV shows as nodes in a graph … Read more
RavenDb provides a push notifications mechanism, named Changes API, that allows you to receive messages from a server about events that occurred there. This mechanism makes is extremely simple to create a ChangeMonitor class that can be used with CacheItemPolicy, in order to expire cache items when something happens on the server (such as a document being … Read more
Background Over the last several months, I’ve been playing around more and more with web development. Until now, I’ve spent most of that time reading blogs and tutorials. I’ve decided that now’s the time to start actually writing something. For one of my ideas, I wanted to allow users to create a tree diagram dynamically. … Read more
Marc Gravell is a valued associate in StackOverflow, so I make sure to follow his blog – thisguy knows what he’s doing (he’s the main contributor to Dapper.net, StackExchange.Redis and protobuf-net). Over the weekend, Marc wrote about a project called Cap’n Proto – a new serialization protocol, implemented by the same guy that developed Protobuf at … Read more
As I did my research on HyperLogLog, I used the built-in MD5 HashAlgorithm.As I was running my tests on larger and larger datasets, the running time grew too much to my liking. A hash function is any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to fixed-size values. The values returned by … Read more