I’ve seen programming games that can teach you Java by programming the AI of your robot. Of course, it was Java specific, and as nice as Java might be, there could still be some reasons for you to want to learn something else. Other games might teach their own language, which wouldn’t be […]
It’s one thing to tell people, “Yeah, I am planning on starting my own business.”
It’s another thing, you know, to start.
Almost two weeks ago, I made an appointment with SCORE, which is a resource partner of the Small Business Administration. SCORE stands for Service Corps of Retired Executives, and it is made […]
Urban performance legends, revisited points out that in many cases, memory allocation and deallocation is faster in Java than in the fastest C/C++ implementations. It’s an interesting read, and it definitely seems to go against the common understanding that C/C++ are needed for faster performance. Of course, it only looks at memory allocation […]
America’s National Institute on Media and the Family sent out an open letter asking Jack Thompson to stop acting as if the institute is an ally in his fight against the video game industry.
Your commentary has included extreme hyperbole and your tactics have included personally attacking individuals for whom I have a great deal of […]
Code Union, Code Better in the latest Escapist talks about the benefits of organizing software developers to reverse the pendulum which has currently swung “in the direction of upper management, to the point where workers are forced to accept low pay and long hours out of fear”.
The author fears that besides the threat […]
I know that the 2006 IGF is still underway, but a week or so ago I decided that I will be submitting a game to IGF 2007.
I must have read or heard something about thinking huge. Something about how you can’t become larger than life if you stick with the safe and easy. […]
So, I’ve gotten spam on poker, nudity, mortgages, poker, medicine, poker, and poker. I’ve even gotten trojan spam, where the message looks perfectly legitimate and even points to a legitimate site, but also includes spam links. I guess it is designed to throw off blacklisting or spam filtering. I find it usually […]
I was about to make a huge post about Jack Thompson’s “modest proposal”, but I just realized that besides the game industry magazines and news sites, no one is reporting it. It is probably just as well.
If you’re curious, I’ll link to the Joystiq article.
I gained slightly more respect for him after […]
Over a year ago, I had asked on the Dexterity forums, now the Indie Gamer forums, about health insurance. I was planning on researching the topic, but getting feedback from people who actually deal with the issue would be valuable. What coverage should I expect to need? How much should I expect […]
In January I started to keep track of the books that I read. I have been keeping a simple text file with the books I am currently reading and a list of books that I have finished reading. I even started to track the number of weeks that have gone by and also […]
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