Nathan Frost is a technical and creative videogame developer, musician, composer and producer.
He is interested in both commercial and fine art -- especially interactive art-forms -- from both applied and academic perspectives.
Joe, I've found the Scrum approach you reference to produce far more accurate task estimates than just guessing. I wish I'd used this kind of empirical estimation for every project I've ever worked on It's sometimes been challenging to get others to accept that these abstract points make more solid ...
We're not in kindergarten here. Process should belong to everyone on the team sounds like assigning more autonomy and responsibility to individual developers, a practice that contributes to getting good product made.
I second Strunk and White's Elements of Style . I think conciseness is tremendously undervalued in many an internet-writer, and Strunk and White show you -- among many other things -- how to say more with less.
Ernest: If Shakespeare was struggling to decide which version of a line was more artistically effective, and had access to a metric that showed that he'd make more money with line A than line B, then he would be stupid not to include line A. I think metrics should always ...
Normally I avoid simply posting agreement with an article on the grounds that merely nodding adds little to the discussion. But Ian, I agree with you so vehemently I couldn't stop myself from doing so. More commercial developers need to step up to the challenge of being philosophically relevant. I'll ...
