The (internet) age old battle between content creators and pirates is an ever escalating arms race. It doesn’t seem to matter how much DRM and encryption creators put on their content, the next day there will be a dozen illegal torrents available. There is no way...
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Creating a successful project – Part 3: Development Tools/Equipment
Every single year that I’ve been doing this, I hear about the next “totally awesome” way to write code. And more often than not, the new thing is certainly very shiny. When it comes to projects, with the exception of coding standards (which will be part...
Continue reading...Creating a successful project – Part 2: Project Organization
Ok, so you’ve familiarized yourself with the rules. Good. This isn’t Fight Club, but they are important rules. You want to be a professional in all the projects on which you want to participate. If properly managed, your GitHub account should be a functional part of...
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So, you want to create a project. That’s great! Welcome to the party. I’d like to pass along some general knowledge about how best to approach creating/running a project. Also, I’m not going to say that I know everything there is to know about running a...
Continue reading...Reusables – Part 1: Overview and File Management
Reusables 0.8 has just been released, and it’s about time I give it a proper introduction. I started this project three years ago, with a simple goal of keeping code that I inevitably end up reusing grouped into a single library. It’s for the stuff that’s...
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