Development Philosophy

Each and every of successful team leads has their own philosophy. And while there is no “one correct” philosophy (in the very same manner as there is no “one correct” religion), different philosophies lead to different results.

Of course, as successful team leads, IT Hares have their own philosophy, which they’re not ashamed to share.

DIY vs Re-Use: In Search of Balance from upcoming book "Design&Development of MMOG"

November 16, 2015 by “No Bugs” Bunny

DIY vs Re-Use

Quote:

The biggest problem with building your game around 3rd-party game engine is that in this case, the game engine becomes your Absolute Dependency

Another Quote:

In future chapters we will keep in mind three specific game/network engines, and will discuss their pros and cons with relation to the issues we are raising. These engines are Unity 5, Unreal Engine 4, and Photon Server

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Best Practices vs Witch Hunts

March 1, 2015 by “No Bugs” Bunny

The road to Witch Hunt is Paved with Good Intentions

Abstract:

Best practices need to be taken critically, otherwise they tend to become witch hunts.

Quote:

Merciless refactoring is good, merciless refactoring having no clue about what you’re doing, is not

Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDesign decisionsOn.DevelopmentDevelopment PhilosophyDevelopment Processes

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Keep It Simple, Singleton!

November 1, 2012 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Black Square

Abstract:

Naïve mappings from business domain to programmer domain tend to survive requirement changes better

Quote:

How do we distinguish good assumptions from bad ones?

Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDesign decisionsOn.DevelopmentDevelopment Philosophy

Tagged With: AgileOverload
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Replace User, Strike Any Key?

September 1, 2012 by “No Bugs” Bunny

EU Cookie Directive

Abstract:

Rumors about user being the source of all the evil are greatly exaggerrated.

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“He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” — Ecclesiastes

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