Game Master Kids
As part of the Te Papa Games Masters Exhibtion I took part in the Digital Media Careers Day. I took a class of 40 studens and together we built a simple side scroller game in JavaScript
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Dealing to Power-plays
Power plays - a behaviour used by people who feel threatned by someone, to re assert their own status, to reverse the perception of power. Nasty and down right mean. How can we deal with this?
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Global Day of Code Retreat
We held a Coderetreat. A day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design. Here is how it went down
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Ten Traumas in Ten Minutes
A 10 minute lightening talk given at Codemania After Dark. In ten minutes I covered my top ten ‘traumas’ of developing software for the cloud, and along the way gave some thoughts about what you need to keep in mind when doing so. It turns out developing for the cloud is really not that different from developing any other distributed application.
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On Service Location
I have some pretty strong feelings about the use of the Service Locator pattern in the software we build. They go along the lines of ‘why would you ever use it?’ and possibly (and somewhat mellow dramatically) rocking slowly backwards and forth in the corner of the shower after being exposed to it. So to ease my pain, and perhaps yours, I have compiled an explanation of why I feel so intolerant toward this pattern.
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A Recipe to Make Girls
If I were to ask you, genetically speaking what is the difference between a boy and a girl? You are likely to say “A girl carries two X chromosomes, while a boy carries one X and one Y”. If I where then to ask you *how* that determines ones sex, what would you say?
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Reflecting on Codemania
3 days post Codemania - it was a blast. Down here in New Zealand we don’t often get the opportunity to listen to world class content, at a world class conference. We have Ian Randall and Ben Gracewood to thank for this. From the venue to the top notch speakers like Damian Edwards, Jared Wyles, Jacinta Richardson, Karl van Randow and Aaron Morton . From start to finnish, Ben an Ian did a fantastic job!
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