Programming Gems

Selected abstracts

• Word Ladders
  Gavin Wraith
• Using Lua in game and tool creation
  Konstantin Sokharev
• Binding Lua to Third-Party C Libraries
  Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
• Thread local context
  Doug Currie
• Leveraging Lua and C++ to Create a Dynamic and Flexible Event System for Script-Driven Games
  Robert Oates
• Lua performance tips
  Roberto Ierusalimschy
• True multithreading in Lua
  Patrick Rapin
• Usage in Pascal
  Jeremy Darling
• Tables, meta-methods and coroutines: building data structures and iterators in Lua
  Luis Carvalho
• A primer of scientific computing in Lua: simple matrix and discrete Fourier transform libraries
  Luis Carvalho
• MVC Web Development with Kepler
  André Carregal and Yuri Takhteyev
• Lua For Game Development
  Steve Gargolinski
• Filters, Sources and Sinks
  Diego Nehab
• Lua as a protocol language
  Rapin Patrick
• Complex Structured Data Input
  Julio Manuel Fernández-Díaz
• var_dump - The power of seeing what's behind
  Tobias Sülzenbrück, Christoph Beckmann, and Klaus Großmann
• Table binding, and the joy of declarative programming
  Bret Victor
• Lazy tables, and the joy of procrastination
  Bret Victor
• Extended arithmetic, and the joy of overloading
  Bret Victor
• Persistence and Serialization
  Ben Sunshine-Hill
• Lua Script Packaging
  Han Zhao
• A Complete Implementation of an Object Request Broker with Lua
  Renato Maia and Renato Cerqueira
• Implementing different sharing mechanisms with Lua
  Renato Maia and Renato Cerqueira
• Designing an efficient Lua driven game scripting engine
  Nicolas Peri
• lutf8 - a simple utf8 <-> unicode converter
  Adrian Sietsma
• Abstractions over LuaSQL
  Tomás Guisasola Gorham
• Implementing Lua on Very Small Ram Based Systems
  Glenn Edgar
• Case Study: Game Scripting with Lua in SpellForce 2
  Steffen Itterheim
• Pointfree programming in Lua or Taming the wild iterator
  Rici Lake
• Making Extensible Userdata
  Rici Lake
• Functional programming in Lua: weak types and strong semantics
  Reuben Thomas
• Prototype-based objects, Lua style
  Reuben Thomas
• A minimal parser generator
  Reuben Thomas
• Porting Lua to a Microcontroller
  Ralph Hempel
• Exceptions in Lua
  John Belmonte
• Writing C modules for Lua
  Wim Couwenberg and Ralph Steggink
• Boostraping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code
  Eduardo Ochs
• Lua and Data Structures
  Matthew Burke
• Lua and Web Development
  Matthew Burke
• Writing Programs that Write Programs - An Example Using Unit Conversion Functions
  Sergio Maffra and Pedro Miller
• Effecting Large-Scale Change (with Little Trauma) Using Metatables
  Pedro Miller and Sergio Maffra
• Mini-Max
  Rafael Savelli and Roberto de Beauclair Seixas
• Interpreted C modules
  Jérôme Vuarand