December 2009

I don’t know about programmers in the real world but as a video game programmer I often worry about my coding skills getting a little bit stagnant due to our near-universal reliance on C++. And that problem is even worse if you work at one of those places where fancy stuff like templates, the STL, [...]

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I don’t fancy myself any type of graphic designer or anything but I have at least studied some of the concepts and I know what CRAP stands for. I try my best to bring what little experience or talent (yeah, right) I have in this arena to make everything I write just a little bit [...]

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As a firm believer of Gabe’s Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory, I’m really not that much of a multiplayer kind of guy. Still, in the mid-2000’s I got hooked for a bit on City of Heroes – so much so that I sought out a job with their publisher, NCsoft, back in 2004. One of the [...]

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I’m a fan of Joel, but I have to admit that lately his posts have been doing less and less for me. He’s pretty busy boosting his Dev Days and Stack Overflow efforts, and I think it shows. And his latest post related to, you know, programming, left a bad taste in my mouth. But [...]

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While gushing over Rocksteady’s exceptionally executed Batman: Arkham Asylum one thought kept occurring to me: I am insanely jealous of Batman fans. Playing Arkham was a blast for me, but for the hardcore Batman connoisseurs? It must have been pure Nirvana. I appreciate Batman as a character – but I’m much more of an Optimus [...]

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I think math is pretty awesome. So when my wife told me about kids needing extra help on the subject at my daughter’s school then I quickly volunteered as a tutor there. As a game programmer I apply mathematics every day to accomplish something very cool – so I won’t hear of children being intimidated [...]

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Writing a résumé sucks. And for many people it’s just the first step in major sucktitude: The writing and delivery of the résumé. The waiting game. The nervous phone screen. The dreaded sit down interview. Of course, these steps are very likely magnified by the depression of losing your last job combined with the fear [...]

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