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I’ve been over the high-level requirements and think it’ll probably take 8 weeks with 2 developers, so you should be able to deliver this by X. Well, that’s great. Can I presume that you’re one of the two developers working on it? I didn’t think so. Nothing irks me more than being handed a batch of work along with the timeline for delivering it. If you want to estimate my work for me, then you can also go ahead and build it.
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Big update this week! First, I updated the logo. I rotated the cubes 45 degrees to try and convey a better sense of speed and movement. What do you think? Next, I added support for 4K screenshots. Now I can hit Alt-S and my renderer resizes all of its buffers to 4096x2304 (biggest 16:9 resolution supported by XNA), renders the scene, saves it to a PNG, then resizes everything back to normal.
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A curated collection of personal reminders, quotes, and principles on leadership, technology, and living well
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A curated collection of personal reminders, quotes, and principles on leadership, technology, and living well
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Like Josh, I prefer to navigate with swipes rather than taps. However, unlike him, I prefer tidy swiping — that is, I prefer my apps not to register my gestures unless I begin them in certain areas, such as the extreme left side of the screen: whenever I want to go back in an app’s visual hierarchy, for example, I put my finger up against my case’s left bumper and swipe across; it would be confusing and annoying if I made an accidental righ..
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Lost in the shiny new features (see: namespaces and closures ) PHP 5.3 also added the __invoke method. While not plainly apparent, it is secretly an amazingly useful 'magic method' . If you're not taking advantage of __invoke, you should be . Why? It provides a uniform execution points for objects that have a doPrimaryAction() style method. What do I mean by this? Many simple, single responsibility objects have a usage that goes ....
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Lost in the shiny new features (see: namespaces and closures ) PHP 5.3 also added the __invoke method. While not plainly apparent, it is secretly an amazingly useful 'magic method' . If you're not taking advantage of __invoke, you should be . Why? It provides a uniform execution points for objects that have a doPrimaryAction() style method. What do I mean by this? Many simple, single responsibility objects have a usage that goes ....
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pAt theScore, we have a big JSON API with hundreds of end-points that expose sports data. Since sports data is very rich, the JSON representation of most of the resources on our API tend to be complex. As a result, a lot of time is spent on generating JSON in our Rails application./p pAt the time we wrote the API, a href=https://github.com/nesquena/rablRABL/a was a great choice. When a href=https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializ....
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Connection pooling is quickly becoming one of the more frequent questions I hear. So here’s a primer on it. If there’s enough demand I’ll follow up a bit further with some detail on specific Postgres connection poolers and setting them up. The basics For those unfamiliar, a connection pool is a group of database connections sitting around that are waiting to be handed out and used. This means when a request comes in a connection is ....
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Connection pooling is quickly becoming one of the more frequent questions I hear. So here’s a primer on it. If there’s enough demand I’ll follow up a bit further with some detail on specific Postgres connection poolers and setting them up. The basics For those unfamiliar, a connection pool is a group of database connections sitting around that are waiting to be handed out and used. This means when a request comes in a connection is ....
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More than two years ago, a company called Nosh got quite a bit of attention for their inventive approach to the generally unremarkable 404 error page: rather than the usual, bland description or even a poor attempt at humor, the folks over at Nosh made a video, and a fantastic one at that. I won’t spoil it for you here, but I will say this: this video stands the test of time in a way that few other things from even two years ago do; it’s ju..
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Junior programmers will often ask, “Which language should I use?”, “Which programming language is the best?”, and when they discover this new hip programming language that’s meant to solve all of their scaling problems, they get in your face and mock you for not using it for every single task. They will write blog posts titled “X language for Y programmers” in hopes of converting the masses to their newfound toy. Smug senior programmers ....
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Junior programmers will often ask, “Which language should I use?”, “Which programming language is the best?”, and when they discover this new hip programming language that’s meant to solve all of their scaling problems, they get in your face and mock you for not using it for every single task. They will write blog posts titled “X language for Y programmers” in hopes of converting the masses to their newfound toy. Smug senior programmers ....
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