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GLIC status Excerpt:Quick status update on the gskinner.com lightweight interface components. The components are done, and have been run through a battery of tests. In fact, we have significantly expanded the number of components from the 11 we originally planned, to 18: Accordion, Button...
Importance of Test Suites (+glic) Excerpt:One of the things that we use quite frequently in application/game/component development is test suites. I've never seen anyone post on this before, and since we have been developing a large set of test suites for the gskinner lightweight interface components (glic - screenshots below), I thought I would give them a mention.
Code Architecture Wisdom from Dune Excerpt:While reading The Children of Dune (book 3), I ran across a quote that I think is a phenomenal summation of my philosophies as a code architect and programmer. Above all else, the [architect] must be a generalist, not a specialist. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They ar...