Thoughts, Ideas, and Discussions

5 Reasons for Putting Your Personal Code Into Subversion {06-27-2009}

If you’ve ever programmed for an organization with multiple developers, you’ve most likely used some kind of system to synchronize, combine, and version code. Without a such a tool, changes to the same files amongst two or more people can get very confusing and hard to manage very quickly. However, even if you’re just dealing [...]

A Thought on Efficiency {12-16-2008}

WARNING This borders on a rant – I get into moods where I like to rant, and this is one of them. Treat it accordingly A (semi) quick thought before I go to bed. There are times in my technology filled life of smart phones, streaming, bluetooth, web 2.0, multitasking, scheduling, interoperability, synchronization, single sign [...]

Play Adventure Games, Be a Better Programmer {03-09-2008}

> Open trapdoor > Go down > Turn on lantern I can’t count the number of times I typed the sentences above on my faithful Commodore 64 immediately after getting home from school every weekday afternoon. An explanation to the uninitiated: these simple statements were a way of communicating with a style of game known [...]