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I maintain a list of programming blogs which have had made a big impression on me, so that I can go back and read them once in a while. I recently realized that there’s probably people who would also like to go through them, so… here they are! No Deadlines For You! Software Dev Without…

Attempting to get a Facebook app approved for a new permission can be a very frustrating process. Despite my best efforts, I recently found myself waiting for 15 days and had to reapply no fewer than 6 times in order to get permission to link to users’ profiles from my Facebook app. I found Facebook’s…

In my previous post, I discussed a lot of the when of logging – when to log things in your application. So in this post I’d like to talk a little bit about what to log. Having lots of logs is certainly better than having none, but if the logs don’t capture important information that allow you…

When setting out to design maintainable software, one of the most critical things to bear in mind is creating feedback loops that allow you to make code decisions based on the application’s actual use and performance under real-world circumstances. A crucial aspect of this is that your application needs to be able to tell you…

In my experience, as DJs gain more experience, they go through several phases. I’d like to discuss them today, to help my friends who are just starting out DJing dances think about how to level up their DJ game as quickly as possible: Phase 1: The “Music I Like” DJ This is where most DJs…

If you’re like me, you like to be able to write unit tests for logic in your code. Unfortunately, Unity has historically not had great support for unit testing in the form that most programmers are used to – however recently, they are adding more and more support tor automated test. Tonight I spent a…

So I’ve recently been discussing SOLID principles with some engineers who are unfamiliar with them, and have realized that a good set of practical examples would be really useful for programmers who haven’t had professional experience with SOLID come to understand it. I won’t claim to be an expert at SOLID, so this is mostly an exercise…

I’ve had a self-hosted WordPress site for many years. But have decided that keeping it up to date and managing the Vm it ran on were not worth it. So I’m moving my blog content to a new home on wordpress.com to make things easier on myself.