Dev Diary 3: Debugging

August 25th, 2008

I don’t have a general topic to discuss this week; working on the debug environment has been productive, but somewhat boring. I’ll just spend more time discussing what I’ve done last week, and return to a livelier topic next Monday. One interesting note: I’ve had the most productive week so far, and I’m especially happy [...]

Earlier this week, it was leaked that EA Mythic would not attribute credit to all developers who have worked on Warhammer. The complaint leveled was that the employee’s name was removed from the credits of the game after having left the company. Guess what, this behavior is pretty much on par for the industry. Of [...]

Dev Diary 2: Unit Testing

August 18th, 2008

Today’s dev diary is on the yawn-inducing subject of unit testing. I’ll be very honest here. I don’t like testing. It can be mind-numbingly boring work at times, And yet as much as I loath to admit it, it is an essential tool in developing software.
I really properly learned to do unit testing during my [...]