I’m happy to announce that the “Direct3D, OpenGL and XNA Fieldguide” is back and improved. The article outlines the pros and cons of the major graphics APIs available and should be a useful reference in the back of every beginner graphics programmer’s mind.

I thought it might be a good idea to include an article on bitwise operators in C since many Graphics APIs use bitwise operators for flags, etc. So I did, although it requires some additional content expansion. Check it out here.

While reading Betsy Aoki’s blog I stumbled upon her post about Gotdotnet being dead. I’m not crying about it, I barely knew that site, but when you go to the old URL you’ll be presented with what seems to be Microsoft’s implementation of a resource dump: the MSDN Code Gallery — which is pretty neat.

Sure, there are only 4 C++ related things so far but if you’re a .NET programmer this site is pretty nifty, it even allows you to post your own snippets or host your own discussion. Of course there’s a huge license you’ll have to obey to and you have to donate your firstborn to Microsoft before posting anything… but that’s besides the point

NVIDIA has decided to publish the acclaimed GPU Gems book on their website, free of charge. Go to the NVIDIA website to read it. Did I mention it was free? Its free.

A new article has been added to the Wiki, encouraging user-input: Is Direct3D 10 on Windows XP Possible?