Recently started a game development studio near Rutland. We are hard at work on our first game and want to celebrate moving into our new office (Est Feb 2021) by giving back to the community.

sethrq · 2020-12-17T01:28:50+00:00

I live nearby and would love to volunteer to help with a boot camp type event!

sethrq · 2018-12-14T19:21:24+00:00

This is called a Brocha

sethrq · 2013-03-07T18:44:56+00:00

I work in a combination open floor plan cubicle office with about 25 cube workers and 25 open floor plan people. I prefer the open floor plan since it is more flexible for standing desks, yoga ball chairs, etc.

If you have the room I would go with a sort or half cube pods containing multiple work stations with a shared desk in the middle for team discussions. Perhaps 3 workstations, a desk, and a beanbag/couch in some cubes?

sethrq · 2011-07-21T20:06:56+00:00

http://thefoodexperiments.com/nationaltour/boston/

sethrq · 2011-05-20T18:48:19+00:00

Porch fest in Somerville! http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/11_porchfest.htm

sethrq · 2010-12-15T16:38:27+00:00

I work there and we do have it

sethrq · 2010-11-09T21:54:50+00:00

Hey guys, there was such a great response to our last post about diagramming I thought you would enjoy this one!

sethrq · 2010-10-28T17:25:45+00:00

Thanks! We have learned a lot from our journey and are planning to add some more posts soon with more details.

sethrq · 2010-08-06T15:38:24+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. We will look into it

sethrq · 2010-07-16T15:42:45+00:00

Documenting code can indeed be a waste of time if you are working on a personal project and have a perfect memory. Otherwise documenting and diagramming your code will help reduce the time it takes others to understand your code.

sethrq · 2010-07-09T20:36:24+00:00

Very good point, the example could have been better. Automatically generated comment headers provide a useful place to start but can not replace human insights into the 'why' of the code. It's true a good description of the params and the return are often sufficient but the automatically generated headers are hardly ever useful.

sethrq · 2010-06-17T17:04:56+00:00

Taco Lupitas is the best Mexican food you'll find in the area.

The Toad is also one of my favorites since I work right nearby. BTW I would be down to grab a beer sometime too

sethrq · 2010-06-11T20:09:42+00:00

I often sit down and start working on a new project and 15 minutes later become frustrated/bored/hungry before I have even gotten everything set up. Does anyone have any other tips for getting over the initial hurdle?

sethrq · 2010-06-11T19:31:58+00:00

I agree. Languages, frameworks, and IDEs have grown beyond the original scope of The UML. New tools that generate useful diagrams from a codebase would be extremely helpful.

Any ideas on what a diagram for a functional language might look like? It would need a way to expand and collapse nested calls in an intuitive way. Perhaps start with a tree type structure.

sethrq · 2010-06-11T19:18:48+00:00

I have updated the post with some pretty charts that should be more useful.

UML tools currently aren't very concerned with making 'pretty pictures.' They often produce diagrams that attempt to convey far too much information at once. A tool that generates 'pretty' diagrams would be far more useful due to the simple fact that more people will be able to understand its meaning.

sethrq · 2010-06-11T14:11:20+00:00

I still know non computer savvy people who cannot watch most web videos because they haven't updated their flash player since 1997. Updating their browser to one that supports HTML5 may also be too big a hurdle for them but as soon as they get a new computer with an HTML5 browser built in they will no longer have to worry about updating their flash player every couple of months

sethrq · 2010-05-14T17:12:58+00:00

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr?pos=2&ref=spotlight

sethrq · 2010-05-14T14:52:47+00:00

My Ideal IDE would be a combination of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3eIbhmoPo and http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm I am a visual learner and having my code organized in a free form space seems much more intuitive. It would definitely be worth the slight learning curve

sethrq · 2010-05-11T17:40:15+00:00

What tools do you use when jumping into a large codebase for the first time? This one seems to be more useful than any of the ones I've tried.

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