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What I learned from game developpment
A decade ago, while I was finishing my master’s degree, I also started developing games with a few friends. Nowadays, I can’t overestimate the benefits those years of late-night-coding brought me, and here are a few lessons I learned in the meantime: Data is important to the user In online games, players are your customers, […]
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Why we do what we do
Yesterday, I went to a Master degree graduation ceremony at the local university. The introduction speech addressed to the soon-former-students was extremely interesting. It recalled me why we work. If you listen to the biblical sayings, it’s because mankind is a band of sinners that were thrown out from Paradise. However, there are still people […]
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Myth of the genius programmer
This session held at Google I/O last year brings so many important ideas to become a better programmer that is should definitely be shown in CS classes (and in some IT shops :p). Thumbs up guys ! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ]
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Flexibility
IT projects, like tattoos, are commitments. You wouldn’t accept that kind of answer from a tattoo artist, it’s your body, you have the right to change your mind as long as the ink is not under your skin. Why would that be different for software development ? Why would requirements be written into stone once […]
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Transparency
Note: this post is part of a planned series on what values I wish to promote through my daily work What do I mean by transparency Based on my quite short but wide experience in the IT business, I must say that sometimes (not to say often) people do business like they play poker. The […]