How important is coding style? This debate is something that really draws out the “artist” and critic in every programmer. In many ways the style of writing code is similar to writing poetry, and what makes the subject so hotly debated is that the beauty of the code, sentence or poem is all in the […]
Agile Software Engineering by Orit Hazzan and Yael Dubinsky works largely as an undergraduate textbook, dealing a lot with how to teach and educate Agile methodologies in a learning environment. The book is broken up into progressively more involved steps with each chapter ending with a summary and reflective questions. There are also breakdowns of […]
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For me, the most interesting thing about Twitter, is it allows those with interesting (albeit bite sized) data streams as wide an audience as they can reach, without the need for any sort of friend invite/accept protocol. The fact that it is almost completely one-way communication means there are not as many simultaneous conversation threads […]
In order to improve my time (and hack my life) I have to know what it has in it. Here is my breakdown of an average (quiet) day, although it is still 9:00-6:30. We have been pretty good about doing 9:00-5:00 hours and that is what most of our guys do, and I would prefer […]
The question of performance and what can benefit from additional work optimizing code (or art) is a very complex problem. To grossly oversimplify the questions of performance, it is worth looking at a few of the terms used to describe what involved in the actual measure of performance. Usually when talking with people about a […]
With all the books on agile methodologies and planning and managing time I thought I would look at trying to improve some of the regular aspects of my day-to-day activities to try and find “more time”. There are still 24 hours in a day, but it is helpful to realize how and where you are […]
With all the posts on Agile methodologies I decided to take a break and follow up on more programming aspects. C++ In Action Industrial-Strength Programming by Bartosz Milewski is as the preface states “… is not a language reference or a collection of clever tricks and patterns. This book is about programming.” The book offers […]
Staying on this Agile game development interest, I was at the local book store the other day and ran across the book Agile Game Development With Scrum by Clinton Keith and thought, “how appropriate”. Needless to say I was intrigued about the aspects of applying Agile directly to game development and immediately started reading it.
For those of you following, I have been delving into more & more practices and thought I would look into Extreme Programming (XP), created by Kent Beck (one of the original authors of the agile manifesto). Some of you (like me) may feel that the term “extreme” may be a bit overused (do our developers […]