Do you remember the first time you had coffee? A lot of people relate their first experience as a bad one, and that coffee is an acquired taste. I can’t relate to that because I’ve always loved coffee, from my very first taste, but I understand the notion, and I want to relate that idea [...]
“Valve co-founder Gabe Newell announced during a DICE keynote today that last weekend’s half-price sale of Left 4 Dead resulted in a 3000% increase in sales of the game, posting overall sales (in dollar amount) that beat the title’s original launch performance.”
I kept updating my blog with a list of things I’d like to learn or improve upon, and it seemed redundant to continually copy/paste the information to a new post, just to update it. I would however like to keep the list online, so I’ve moved it to this single location.
I knew that when I started the job search, I would ultimately end up doing a lot of algorithm development in my interviews, so I made an investment in a good dry-erase whiteboard to practice on. I explained to Susanna that, as a programmer, a whiteboard is just as important as the computer or code [...]
I found this today, which some may find useful. It provides prepackaged Eclipse distributions for certain tasks, all ready to go.
http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html
So I have some time this weekend, so I’m using it effectively.
Finishing a brush-up skim read through of Code Complete
Starting Design Patterns
Learning Ant
Brushing up on C++ skills in anticipation of…
Thinking about some planning aspects of a project Ian and I are starting
Playing around with some SVN commands I’d not used before
I’m also still working on [...]
It’s been a fair amount of time since I last posted warning of the dry spell in my blogging, but I think things have stabilized to a point where I can offer some words.
Of course, the primary reason for my busyness as of late is the 4 classes I’m taking this quarter, CSCD350 Software Engineering, [...]
This is one of the cooler things I’ve seen.
http://www.inf.unisi.ch/phd/wettel/codecity.html
I’ve made huge strides with PHCL, but haven’t had much time to post or commit anything recently. More soon.
This isn’t a substantial post, but nevertheless I found this quote extremely intruiging:
“Rampant piracy is just unserved customers” – Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development, Valve Software
For this upcoming quarter our instructor has slated a colleague and I to develop a web application in PHP using a MSSQL database, seperate from the standard student projects. In preparation for this, I decided to set up a development box so we could get started early. It was completely unnecessary for us to get [...]