Yeee-haaa! Get your compiler and debugger ready and saddle up, pardner. We got some codin’ to do.
Noel
Book review: The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
Even though I read a lot of technical books, either I must have pretty good instincts or the publishing quality bar is quite high, because I never read one I thought was totally worthless. Until now that is.
Postmortems: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
When starting a project, it is always a good idea to reflect very critically on your past projects. Think about what went right, and especially what could have been done better, and come up with a plan of attack for the new project. That’s the idea behind project postmortems. To adapt the popular saying, companies that do not conduct some form of postmortem are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
My Take on GDC 2004
The days immediately following GDC are always decidedly hectic. Not only do you need to play catch up with the life you left behind for a week, but you also try to get back all the hours of lost sleep between parties and red-eye flights, email all the people that you met (or missed seeing) at the conference, prepare roundtable summaries or put up session slides, and deal with all the emergencies that happened at the office while you were gone. With all that now safely behind me, it’s time to look back on this year’s GDC. What was hot and what was not? What were the underlying themes and trends of the conference?
GDC 2004: Software Engineering Roundtable Summary – Session 3
It is true that no tools are necessary to apply good software engineering techniques, but they can often be a big help. The third and last session of “By the Books: Software Engineering in the Games Industry” concentrated exclusively on languages and tools, and participants shared their favorite tools and warned others about potential duds.