From the monthly archives:

July 2010

My First YouTube Appearance with Disney Epic Mickey

by Seanba on July 31, 2010

I’ve worked booths at E3 and Comic Con before in my career, but something that made this year’s event drastically different for me happened when someone from Disney public relations approached me with a camera crew in tow and asked me to do an interview for a press outlet. “Sure, why not?” I probably did [...]

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Thanks to the Source Control Gods

by Seanba on July 23, 2010

Yesterday, I was given a task to display lots (and I mean lots) of diagnostic text on the screen, while in game, on a development build of our latest goodness. Problem was, our debug font was far too big for the job – something I (foolishly) didn’t realize until the programming work as done and [...]

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Yegge’s Deathbed Confession

by Seanba on July 16, 2010

This has been kind of a rough year for programmers like me that enjoy reading blogs from other software developers. First Yegge threw in the towel. Then Joel called it quits. And even though Jeff is still around he has reduced his once legendary output to a post or two per month. Actually, come to [...]

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Do Not – Sometimes the Better Option

by Seanba on July 16, 2010

Andy Hunt, easily my favorite programmer-type author, recently tweeted this bit of hard-earned wisdom: The Yoda Methodology: “Do, or Do Not. There is no Try.” Note that “Do Not” is a perfectly valid, if underutilized, approach. I love it. It’s a great methodology to keep in mind while creating software. Next month I’ll celebrate the [...]

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