Why Roguelikes are really so great – actually why they are so popular at the moment ( a great podcast)
Its interesting that ASCII games could have such a high level of interest at the moment and there was a really interesting 10-15 minutes on the subject in a recent podcast I listened to – the podcast was actually about a game called “100 rogues” but from about 40 min into the podcast the guys at ROGUELIKE radio focus on the reasons why the roguelike genre is getting so popular. Its a great listen so if you have a chance…
http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-10-23T12:50:00-07:00&max-results=7
Dom
A really really really simple RougueLike in C#
Ok I am building a really really really simple Roguelike in C# to show how easy it is to do and also to show how C# is such a cool language to build RogueLikes. More details soon but here is a a really exciting screenshot…
Screenshot of ReallyReallyReallySimpleRougueLike
The importance of the RogueLike for the developer
We are going to see a lot more articles and tutorials from me on roguelike games this year and part of the reason for this is the importance for these type of games for the beginner/intermediate developer. Whilst it’s obviously hard to build any sort of 3d game for a beginner developerwithout assistance – building a simple yet playable roguelike game however (even just using a windows console app say using C#) is quite possible. OK you are not going to make a fortune out of a simple textbased rouguelike ,but you may well be able to get your friends to play it!!!
Some cool links for roguelikes:
http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.com/
http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/12/12/shadowcasting-in-c-part-one.aspx
Dom
Why Blog [OT]
I promise I will stop the OT posts soon … its taking a bit of time to get over the holiday but a great post from Hanselman on why you should blog?
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YourBlogIsTheEngineOfCommunity.aspx
Dom
Welcome to 2012 – did I ever say that I like castles… [OT]
I have been away on holiday (vacation) for december so its been very quiet on the blog but will try to improve this situation now that I am back. I did have some serious fun seeing lots of castles… Did I ever explain that I really like castles…
photo from Alhambra
OK yeah so I saw lots of castles…
Tower of London
and more castles…
Valencia city walls
Great to be back home though
Dom
C# Reading list by Eric Lippert
Eric is one of the great C# gurus going around – here is his latest reading list
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1769249
Cheers
Dom
Fix for ASP.NET MVC3 Add Controller – An item with the same key has already been added
Just an interesting little find – so I added a new entity to my EDMX and lo and behold I start getting the “An item with the same key has already been added” when I tried to add a controller – anyway the fix was to remove a couple of rougue navigational properties that had been added automatically!!!!
So if you don’t need them and they are causing this problem – remove them
Dom
Good sample developer resumes on the Net
Bit of research (googling) led me to these links on developers resumes/cv:
I like this one except for the money stuff at the bottom
http://www.developerresume.org/
Another good one imho – nice and short
http://www.careerfaqs.com.au/careers/sample-resumes-and-cover-letters/web-developer-resume/
Excellent tips for writing once
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-tips-for-writing-a-job-winning-developer-resume/274
Another sample I like – yeah its old school – yeah its not got any major formatting – but it hits the spot for me
http://www.ash-associates.com/example_cv.html
More soon
Dom
Hanselman on Resumes
Ok I do occaisionally blog about being the better developer, getting a better job etc… but one area that I rarely talk about is developers resumes – or for that matter developer selection criterias. Having read a million of both I think I have a good idea of what makes a good one but of course thats quite subjective but when I saw the master hanselman was blogging about it I thought it would be good to extend this to the world:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IKnowApps.aspx
I’ll try to blog on this subject if I can get some feedback from my dev mates – of course anyone out there who has thoughts on what makes a good dev Resume/CV - leave a comment and I’ll include it (or the spirit of the comment) in my blog on the subject.
Dom
Free Microsoft briefings on Lightswitch in Azure (All capital cities except Darwin and Hobart)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ausdev/archive/2011/09/29/switched-on-briefings.aspx
I am pretty sure its free – let me know if I am wrong!
Dom
