This wasn’t the most productive episode I’ve ever recorded, per se, in terms of functionality, but, hey, it’s always a learning experience to write code. This was kind of table setting for a big, important piece of functionality: distinguishing captures from blocked moves because of friendly pieces. Here’s what I accomplish in this clip: Flesh…
We humans are creatures of routine, and there’s some kind of emergent property of groups of humans that makes us, collectively, creatures of rut. This is the reason that corporations tend to have a life trajectory sort of similar to stars, albeit on a much shorter timeline. At various paces, they form up and then…
I might be accused of link bait for a title like this, but I actually get a decent amount of questions that, when you distill them down to their bare essence, amount to this title. The questions are often packaged in narrative (possibly rant) form and almost invariably summed up with an apology for all…
In this post, I set out to do some real refactoring of the Board class. It bothered me enough to take a crack at it and, since this is a fun side project, there really aren’t any constraints. Were I committed to delivering some business value here, I might need to take a look at…
I have two degrees (Bachelor’s and Master’s) in computer science, so it’s probably no surprise that I place a fairly high degree of value on the background that all of this course work provided. That being said, my experience was that you learn some pretty unfortunate ‘lessons’ in CS degree programs. To name some that…
