Thursday, September 15, 2011
Rich Jones learned stuff from watching Notch code.
I learnt some stuff too.
Six hundred games: invented, designed, and coded - in 2 days. That was the Lundum Dare game competition #21, held from the 19th to the 22nd of August. Hoards of game makers spent 48 hours creating lil' masterpieces based on the given theme: "Escape".
One of the superstar contestants was Notch of "creator of Minecraft" fame. He took the intrepid step of livestreaming his entire process (which now exists as a 5 minute timelapse video): every move, every mouse-click, every keypress he made for 2 days - streamed live to an average audience of 10,000 viewers.
Over the weekend of the competition I ingested around 30 hours of the action in full screen; surrendering my complete attention to a programmer writing Java. Java! Tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people watched a guy code Java. It was incredible and inspiring. Here's what I learnt: Read on for more »
Google+ is this service that google made that you might have heard about. It's like Twitter, except instead of 140 characters you can write a novel, or post every lolcat picture you find. Then, everyone's collected novels and lolcat collections then get collated and displayed into a single, mammoth, animated-gif-filled, crazily formated, document that google calls "your stream".
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Over the years I've written hundreds of small scripts and apps for various tasks I need doing. Although these are often quite useful, I rarely release or share them.
I'm not some kind of horrible code miser, mind you, it's just that my scripts are always hacked together in such a way that they work for my specific input data only.
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Did you know that over 18% of the worlds code was written by programmers fueled by pizza? It would surprise me if you did, because I just made that up. But at any rate, nothing tastes more disgusting than the pizza you have to eat because you're stuck at work on a Saturday desperately trying to finish a project that was due on Friday.
This Saturday, however, SpeedRabbit pizza gave us reason to smile. Perhaps looking to cash in on the lucrative "overweight programmer" market, they have developed the all-new IE8Explorer pizza!
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