August 2006 - Posts

• To understand recursion

  you must first understand recursion. Much more good stuff here . Read More... Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:47 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments

• So, the first batch of refactoring....

  I don't know how many of you keep up to date with MS's tech announcements. Probably just me. But yesterday's (for all us beta subscribers) was a doozy. You can find it here. What this means for me is that i have less than a week to refactor everything Read More... Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:18 AM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments Filed under: Faith Specific, Technodrivel

• What goes around

  Comes around. Many years ago, i had an almost-fatal motorbike accident. The reconstruction process took over eight months and involved a lot of bone-pinning and several replacements. Partly in order to get back in shape (although i must admit that i've Read More... Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 3:38 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments

• SWG - or How Not To Relax

  I recently reactivated my SWG subscription. I'm currently not in paid work and while coding all day is great, i do like to cool down a little afterwards. If i can combine that with study of the game as a medium, so much the better. Anyway BaronJuJu wrote: Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:45 PM by Rich Bryant | 3 Comments

• Windows Live Writer

  Okay, this looks handy. It seems, unless i have completely lost my mind, to be an extremely useful way to post blog entries from the desktop without using a browser. For several reasons, this is a Good Thing™. I don't have to worry about timeouts. I can Read More... Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 2:04 AM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments

• Very funny.

  Thank you Gary, for these. I laughed quite hard. But i'm still going to rip you a new one for calling me Kev all last night now that i understand why. Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:39 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments Filed under: Life

• Could be wrong, could be right

  I love Public Image Ltd. However, in this case, i'm referring to this . Ay caramba! Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:51 AM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments

• Stuff Shortage Explained By Really Smart Guy

  No, not me, this is somebody much smarter. Nick Yee , master of the Daedalus Project sheds some light on why people seems to like levelling games and static content. I referenced this a while ago myself pointing you all to a post by Scott Jennings which Read More... Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:51 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments Filed under: Design

• Archetypal Memory

  Take a game. Any game. It's derivative and it has to be or it's not fun. There needs to be something about that game which resonates with the human mind, some kind of childhood memory or cultural myth or shared story (movies, for example), or even something Read More... Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 1:12 PM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments

• Management is for suckers

  I always hated management. Back in my Team Leader days, i'd wander around desks in a desultory fashion, try to help programmers with what they were doing (always a thankless task) and curse the know-nothing fools who gave us such ludicrous deadlines. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:44 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments Filed under: Life, Faith Specific

• Opiate of the People

  The thing about having a contact email link on your blog is that sometimes people send you mail. Naturally, i divert quite a lot of it to /dev/null uninterested as i am in many of the offers i get. For the record, guys:- Human Growth Hormone - tall enough Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:03 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments