I received a bit of sad news from “He who must not be named” this morning. It appears that Aussie game developer Auran are struggling to stay afloat, and will most likely close. This isn’t good news for the Aussie contingent of the games industry, and is an indication of how cut-throat the industry can [...]
I can fully understand the desire a developer has to protect their creation from being copied illegally. I can understand why some steps would be taken to mitigate the risk of losing money due to piracy. What I can’t understand is why some companies go so far with their anti-piracy measures that it starts to [...]
I find myself frequently concerned with the lack of ability of a lot of people in our industry. Today I found an example of at least one of the possible reasons why software development professionals turn out to be crap.
They start by reading tutorials like this.
How can we expect people to become good at what [...]
Welcome to the next in the Becoming a Geek series. Today I’m going to cover the areas which I think a budding Game Geek needs to be adept in for him/her to be a true Game Geek. I’d like to make a clear distinction from the start that the Game Geek is a different beast [...]
Welcome to part 2 of my Becoming a Geek series. If you haven’t already read part 1, I suggest you read it first. Before you can be a web geek, you’ll need to be a General Geek. If you’re already on the way to becoming a General Geek, here are a stack of hints to [...]
Contrary to popular belief, there are many types of geek. In this series, I’m going to give some basic tips on how to become one! This is the first part in the series, and so I’m covering the ‘General Geek’.
Before I even went to university to get qualifications to become an official “paid” geek, [...]
I remember when I was in high school as a teenager and all I wanted to ‘be’ was a Software Engineer. I was one of those lucky people who always seemed to know what it is they wanted to do, and for me it was always going to be creating software. I got [...]
While reading The Daily Grind from Larkware I found myself reading through a couple of articles (here and here) on programmers not being able to program. This obviously caught my interest as I feel I’ve worked with my fair share of these “programmers” in the past. It got me thinking about how to [...]
Another short snippet this morning. I wanted to inform you of a fairly old-skool story; one that lots of developers will already know about. It’s a great tale, and still holds a lot of truth for today’s world of I.T. despite it being very old.
Have a read of the tale - The Parable of the [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve had the joy of dealing with many recruitment agents as I’ve been looking for a new contract. I won’t get into the choice of job at this stage, as that’s a whole new blog post right there. What I wanted to show was my frustration at quality [...]
