by Ruben Hamers | Jun 22, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Text Manipulation As plain text is our most common means of building stuff it is really important to know how to manipulate it properly. Luckily there are languages that are really good at manipulating text like python, ruby or perl. David and Thomas...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 7, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Debugging The next section of the book is all about debugging. We have talked about debugging before in earlier episodes. As Uncle Bob puts it: “Debugging is not a skill to be desired!”. And I totally agree, however, you must be able to do it. And in...
by Ruben Hamers | May 25, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Source Code Control The next section of the book is all about source code control. The authors start this section of with some hard truth: “One of the important things we look for in a user interface is the UNDO key — a single button that forgives...
by Ruben Hamers | May 8, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Power Editing This part of the chapter is all about your most important tool as a game developer; your IDE. Whatever you choose, you must be able to manipulate and navigate text effortlessly. This is the basis for all programming you will ever do....
by Ruben Hamers | May 4, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Shell Games This paragraph is basically Andrew and David emphasizing the fact we as mere mortal programmers must learn how to work with the terminal. They compare the terminal to a woodworker’s most basic tools like a good, solid, reliable workbench....
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 24, 2023 | Unity3D
#begin This blog is a straight up copy from an earlier blog I wrote for the Dephion Community blog. I’m not sure how long the community blog will be up so I’ll keep a copy around on my own blog. Enjoy! The Dephion WorldSpace UIDocument In...
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 12, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Andrew and David start this chapter with the following sentence: “Every craftsman starts his or her journey with a basic set of good-quality tools.” I couldn’t agree more. They give the example of a wood worker and his tools. He has saw, chisels, drills and...
by Ruben Hamers | Mar 26, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The last and really interesting topic of this chapter is estimation. I think I’ve said this before but estimation is one of these topics that however much advise you have consumed, when-ever you consume it again, something new, you always gain new...
by Ruben Hamers | Mar 1, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The next topic in the book is about domain languages. We’ve talked about this is previous blogs as well since I personally think domain languages are very important. I try to create an ubiquitous language whenever I can. Ever since I read Eric Evans’ book about...
by Ruben Hamers | Feb 9, 2023 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The next section of the book dives into prototyping, let’s take a look. They start off by saying that many industries use prototypes to try out specific ideas since prototyping is much cheaper than full-scale production. Think about SpaceX testing these raptor...
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