I found this great article by Ted (on Flex) about acquisition, an OO principle that you, too, can use, even if (like me) it wasn’t one of the ones you learnt about in college. It’s a little bit like “multi-dimensional inheritance”, if you will. A concept with limitless possibilities.
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/01/acquisition-within-flex.php

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I’m looking at creating a little mini-golf/putt-putt game at the moment since something of the like has been requested at work.
For getting to grips with 2D vectors, there is little better than ball games, and particularly ones which need not be real time, eg. top-down golf and snooker/pool.
In fact I was in the midst of [...]

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How could I have missed this?
http://lab.polygonal.de/2007/05/10/bitwise-gems-fast-integer-math/
Fantastic, although to squeeze the very last out of it you’ll be wanting to do all your calculations strictly in powers of 2… I look forward to putting this to use. Thanks Mike!

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I know it’s a bit off the topic of this site, but this was something I recently looked into and thought it might be useful to post it here for anyone searching for a comparison. This is only five different (UK-serving) providers by the way, and the information is taken from sources across the web. [...]

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