The devil of the detail

Mitch picked me up on my casual use of the term ‘zotted’ which prompted me to post this small fictional except in response:   Field Journal Entry #1623 The life of the tribe continues on in its usual fashion. One can spend most days just peacefully watching the tribe members graze and frolic across the […]

 

A talent burning twice as fast…

A challenge from Richard to use a closet, fish nets, a badly applied fake tan, a rubber chicken, 2 metres of nylon garden hose and a massuese named Sven in an email lead to the following small narrative…   A small tap on the door followed by a polite but efficient voice uttering “Curtain call in […]

 

Virtually no love of the future

"Why rain?" he asked himself as he trudged along the rain soaked footpath, "Who creates a entire world only to have it rain all the time?" Entering New Chicago always got Scott down. The place seemed designed to irritate him specifically on multiple levels.The fact that his virtual hand was now reaching for a virtual packet […]

 

15 years on, the movie painted a slightly different picture of that fateful weekend…

He could have sworn it was a beautiful sunny day today… at least everywhere else in the world. He remembered a blue sky and the lightest of wispy clouds floating somewhere above in a distant memory from this morning. This morning… It could have been last week for all the connection it felt to the […]

 

Breaking the bad news across one’s knee

Today the question was posed of how to break the news to a client that the project is running behind schedule.Here are some possibilities that came to mind that readers may wish to try for themselves next time a suitable opportunity presents itself: For the sophisticated: I’m excited to inform you that our developers have […]

 

Shall we play a game?

Continuing on from my previous post, I’m pretty certain an unnamed soul gave me a “look” earlier today. Sure, he wasn’t ever actually with in line of sight (or 10kms) of me… but I felt it deep in the “look” sensing portions of the cockles of my heart… or just slightly to the left of […]

 

It was then that the room went silent…

Gather round kiddies for I have an important life lesson to impart and the angry mob outside screaming for my death aren’t going to wait patiently forever. The IT industry is much like the school yard or, so I’m informed by Hollywood, the prison yard. In order to gain respect from those around one, one […]

 

The templating engine that no talks about… at least not in front of the children

Here’s a little experiment for you to try in Visual Studio 2008: Create a project – it doesn’t matter what sort but I’m using C# console app for this example Add a new text file and give it the extension of .tt Add the following lines to it: <#@ template debug="true" #> <# WriteLine(“Hello “); […]

 

Game Writer’s Tip: The three R’s are not invited to the party

Whilst Readin’, wRitin’ and aRithmetic may have helped many people become the fine product members of society they are today, they generally don’t tend to appreciate being forced into doing such things in the course of learning how to play your game. The first reason for this is the rather boring reality of attempting to […]

 

Sordid documentation revealed

We open this little story with David and Ducas having an IM conversation over Ducas’ choice of "why is documentation so boring?" as an IM tag line: David Burela said: you just need to punch it up a little David Burela said: add a little drama Ducas said: so, explain a crud wcf service with […]