Why Assembly? I was going to start the title as "The Art of Assembly" however, that title was already taken. I am probably going to commit the biggest sin of modern developers, I am going to advocate that developers learn, and consider using, a bit of assembly! I know, I can already hear the voices in my head saying "But Thomas, How could you advocate the use of such a low level, non-crossplatform, and painfully slow language?". Fear not voices, I haven't completely lost my mind yet. There actually...

Hello spammers, (and of my minority group of genuine readers) and welcome to my blog. I'm am your host, Thomas (AKA Cogman) and I will attempt to vent my random coding thoughts to you. A little bit about me; one of my earliest and most memorable coding experiences came from an old game "Jedi Knight: Dark forces 2". That game had a fairly powerful scripting language with the extensions .cog (hence the name) that controlled most of the games dynamics. Along with that language came a very weak cheat...