In writing my book, I find that I wind up with these thoughts, paragraphs and mini-essays that may or may not find their way into the book. I’m adding to Leanpub sequentially, but writing relevant things as they occur to me, so there are bits floating around, waiting to have a home. I’m going to…
What I accomplish in this clip: Finished implementing the bishop acceptance tests. Introduced the concept of “capture move” and “non-capture move” to piece movement. Made some good headway on the pawn’s diagonal capture capability. Here are some lessons to take away: I’ve mentioned this before in the negative a few times, but I’ll phrase it in…
A few months back, I wrote a post about changes to my site and work. Today, I have another announcement in that same vein: I’ve recently partnered with NDepend to help start and create content for their blog. If you go there now, you can see the maiden post which announces the release of the newest version…
It’s a large batch life for us! ‘stead of feedback we just wait! ‘stead of options we trust fate! — Little Orphan Annie…sort of. Before I talk about “large batch life,” I’d like to take a moment to share with you a bemused chuckle at really poorly done verbal tribalism. Rather than try to explain in the…
For this episode, I did something a bit different. I actually recorded the coding for this and then two more episodes on its heels. If you’re following along on github, you’d notice that I’ve checked in code for episode 40, though I still need to do the audio for those next two episodes. In this…
