Simple notions from a developer
John Minadeo Summary Experienced application developer that has been working in software development for the past 11 years with a strong focus on database and backend architecture and data transformations in Microsoft centric environments and strong familiarity with their languages and tools. Skills Can display proficiency with the following skills and in the […]
So, apparently my company will be downsizing, with IT taking the brunt of the cuts… By rough estimation, it’ll end up being around 20%. Doing the math that ends up being 3.5 developers. I am the 4th newest, but the most recent fills a singular specific job that’s not going away, and my gut says […]
When you lived in Macedonia (could have been Medina, started with an M 🙁 )Ohio, you were dating a friend of mine named Barry D. This would have been early 90's. After you guys broke up you vanished. I can't find any sort of trace of you anywhere, should you happen to ever come across […]
Well a third TDD post and with mixed emotions I am here. On the one side, I have found BDD which (in my opinion) is far better then TDD. What the h#ll is BDD you ask? Behavioral Driven Design. So what does that mean? It is development that is driven by the required behavior of […]
So, as you may have read in my previous rant regarding Test Driven Development, I am one of two developers participating in a test of TDD. The project is relatively small in scope and is mostly in a stand-alone “engine” so really, I think it's a pretty ideal test subject. If you were paying attention, your […]
Well folks, I'm here today to gripe about Test Driven Development (TDD if you can't live without an acronym). For those unfamiliar with it, the concept is (and feel free to correct me folks), one starts coding the unit tests firsts and implements the various classes/structures one needs to make the unit tests function. By […]
Due to a DNS registrar issues, Quake-Revolution.com is now available at www.quake-revolution.net and will be returning once the registrar issues have been resolved. The team apologizes for the inconvenience and offers a reminder, “No good deed goes unpunished” 🙂 Regards!
Mostly a maintenance release to address a bug in the off-hand grapple. Thanks [CL2] R@ancid Me@t (CL2 Clan Site) for pointing it out. And thank you Evolution (from Quake-Revolution for pointing out it was likely a prediction issue (damn you Q3!) What happened to 1.3b6 you ask? Well, it actually never happened. It wound up […]
This is the most active dead Quake III Mod I've ever seen. Version 1.39Beta6 Released. Head on over to quake-revolution.com for a full list of changes Additionally, they've added 3 new developers: Duality, Whinger, and donvito. Duality and Whinger have volunteered to help with the Quake 3 mod, whilst donvito is going to help Lucron […]
On the urgings of a new co-worker friend, I hopped on over to http://www.plaync.com and purchased City of Heroes. As it turns out, one can purchase the combo set of Cities of Heroes and Villians for $29.95 USD. The downside of course, would be the $14.99 USD a month subscription fee (the 1st month is […]
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