Development Blogs - What when and where?

[Lord Ned]

In your articles consider using words like "diegetic narrative" for no reason, write as if rank is a modern innovation with the "AI director" and force references to it, ask that token game mechanics be removed for being unrealistic or old without any real justification other than "it's about time...", muse over a game you played 5 minutes ago with some youtube research for comparisons, suggest we remove "barriers" so games play on one context sensitive button, reach no conclusions under any circumstances, and champion post-game emotional art synergy.

Maybe because i'm tired and my eyes are blurring... but that made no sense to me.

The media handling functionality was dramatically upgraded about a year ago in WordPress. Have you used it since then?

I personally think the way it handles media is fantastic, able to auto-generate galleries and whatnot. I use them all the time on my WordPress site. You can even easily get per-image comments.

There's no upper limit on image resolution, to clarify. It'll always leave your original image as the largest size, and then auto-generate three smaller sizes for you that you can specify.

Yeah I've been using it for a college class (As a photoblog) and man... The make new page box is horrid with media. There's no sense of formatting in the box, and you import an image inbetween paragraphs... and it shows up on the side of the paragraphs in the editor and then in the right space on the actual blog.

Maybe it's because I'm using a domain.wordpress.com one?

[Taylor]

Maybe because i'm tired and my eyes are blurring... but that made no sense to me.

In the game design blogosphere it's those types of articles that are popular. Not ones that are, err, actually helpful.

[Furyo]

Taylor, I love your posts

There it's said

[Lord Ned]

As to the earlier comments: I wasn't going to fill it with just technical stuff, but more like Briscoe's work. Just not so impressive.

[Defrag]

While Thrik is 100% right about popularity of blogs being strongly related to community participation and 'celebrity' factory, you should bear in mind that blogging isn't all about popularity! For me, blogging has been a very effective tool for rationalising and better understanding the subject matter of each post. In particular, it's often the case that we just 'know' why something works or does not work. When you write a blog post about the topic, you must understand the topic before you can explain it to someone else. On quite a few occasions, I've had "aha!" moments while typing a post .

My job up til now has involved convincing software engineers to change the way they write their code, so being able to put forward a convincing argument was extremely important to me, and blogging definitely made a difference. I would thoroughly recommend blogging as a way to better understand your chosen field.

[Sentura]

While Thrik is 100% right about popularity of blogs being strongly related to community participation and 'celebrity' factory, you should bear in mind that blogging isn't all about popularity! For me, blogging has been a very effective tool for rationalising and better understanding the subject matter of each post. In particular, it's often the case that we just 'know' why something works or does not work. When you write a blog post about the topic, you must understand the topic before you can explain it to someone else. On quite a few occasions, I've had "aha!" moments while typing a post .

My job up til now has involved convincing software engineers to change the way they write their code, so being able to put forward a convincing argument was extremely important to me, and blogging definitely made a difference. I would thoroughly recommend blogging as a way to better understand your chosen field.

out of curiousity, which code changes are we speaking here? anything you could disclose?

[wacko]

While Thrik is 100% right about popularity of blogs being strongly related to community participation and 'celebrity' factory, you should bear in mind that blogging isn't all about popularity! For me, blogging has been a very effective tool for rationalising and better understanding the subject matter of each post. In particular, it's often the case that we just 'know' why something works or does not work. When you write a blog post about the topic, you must understand the topic before you can explain it to someone else. On quite a few occasions, I've had "aha!" moments while typing a post .

My job up til now has involved convincing software engineers to change the way they write their code, so being able to put forward a convincing argument was extremely important to me, and blogging definitely made a difference. I would thoroughly recommend blogging as a way to better understand your chosen field.

out of curiousity, which code changes are we speaking here? anything you could disclose?

I guess you have never read his blog before because he talks about what he does all the time which would give you insight into what he is talking about.

[Defrag]

out of curiousity, which code changes are we speaking here? anything you could disclose?

As Wacko said, I have quite a few posts on testability + automated testing on my blog. A great distillation of testability concerns can be found on Misko Hevery's website. He's the man when it comes to test driven development + automated testing. Google test blog is another good one.

[Psy]

I don't really use my blog in the typical sense of writing for an audience. I use it more for a record of what I've done since I started it. It's always cool to look back and see what you've made and how certain projects have evolved.

[-HP-]

I don't really use my blog in the typical sense of writing for an audience. I use it more for a record of what I've done since I started it. It's always cool to look back and see what you've made and how certain projects have evolved.

Same here!

It's pretty much my personal place, where I post the stuff I worked on my free time.

[Sentura]

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I don't really use my blog in the typical sense of writing for an audience. I use it more for a record of what I've done since I started it. It's always cool to look back and see what you've made and how certain projects have evolved.

Same here!

It's pretty much my personal place, where I post the stuff I worked on my free time.

it isn't as much a blog as it is a portfolio then? i honestly think i'm too lazy to have a blog. or don't care enough. or both. i much prefer writing a document to larger projects documenting reflections, analysis, thoughts etc.

[-HP-]

":d4061vr6]

I don't really use my blog in the typical sense of writing for an audience. I use it more for a record of what I've done since I started it. It's always cool to look back and see what you've made and how certain projects have evolved.

Same here!

It's pretty much my personal place, where I post the stuff I worked on my free time.

it isn't as much a blog as it is a portfolio then? i honestly think i'm too lazy to have a blog. or don't care enough. or both. i much prefer writing a document to larger projects documenting reflections, analysis, thoughts etc.

Yeah maybe a mix of portfolio/blog.

I rarely write in there tho, just brief comments to explain what are those pics I'm posting. I might explain a little bit the workflow, but then again, very briefly.

It's also good because, if you have something to say to the world, you can also post personal stuff there, better than using twitter or facebook i guess.