Archive

2024

Nov 19, 2024: Blogging again after a long hiatus

2017

Dec 30, 2017: A new adventure
Nov 19, 2017: Why Ealdorlight's Kickstarter might have failed
Jun 6, 2017: Ealdorlight's Kickstarter is live at 4pm today
May 10, 2017: How Ealdorlight's story stands out
Apr 28, 2017: Ealdorlight Kickstarter on 6th June, Sol Trader 1.3 released
Mar 31, 2017: Introducing: Ealdorlight
Feb 22, 2017: What's next for Sol Trader and me
Jan 6, 2017: How to lead your life

2016

Jun 28, 2016: 5 ways I screwed up Sol Trader's launch: a post-mortem
May 4, 2016: Extreme YAGNI: How BDD nails your prototyping stage
Feb 9, 2016: Gossip: the best new Sol Trader feature for ages
Jan 28, 2016: The top 5 space games of 2015
Jan 25, 2016: Sol Trader at EGX Rezzed: 7-9 April 2016
Jan 12, 2016: The cunning plans of Sol Trader
Jan 1, 2016: Full disclosure: Sol Trader conversation upgrades

2015

Dec 24, 2015: The Sol Trader Christmas Eve update: moddable missions
Dec 2, 2015: New Sol Trader beta: the science of blame and unforgiveness
Nov 27, 2015: Modelling opinions and prejudices in Sol Trader
Nov 11, 2015: Sol Trader combat preview
Oct 2, 2015: Why (I hope) I will weather the Indiepocalypse
Sep 21, 2015: Sol Trader Kickstarter now live!
Sep 18, 2015: Three days to go
Sep 3, 2015: Gossip as a game mechanic
Aug 19, 2015: How to add live code reload to your game
Aug 1, 2015: Why I wrote Sol Trader's GUI code from scratch
Jul 22, 2015: Sol Trader will be at EGX in September!
Jul 18, 2015: 3 new screenshots of Sol Trader's new interface
Jul 17, 2015: Trailer: How it will feel to move around Sol Trader's cities
Jun 24, 2015: How Sol Trader uses information as currency
Jun 17, 2015: The difference review and planning makes to indie development
Jun 10, 2015: How to quickly add bloom to your game engine
Jun 3, 2015: The huge difference a good Entity System could make to your game
May 27, 2015: How tone of voice works in Sol Trader's dialogue system
May 20, 2015: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up
May 13, 2015: How dialogue works in Sol Trader
May 6, 2015: How face generation works in Sol Trader
Apr 28, 2015: How I'm using Proxemics in Sol Trader's game design
Apr 22, 2015: Why I ditched all the build tools in favour of a simple script
Apr 15, 2015: How to choose between realism and fun in game design
Apr 8, 2015: Your abstractions are a liability
Apr 1, 2015: How I doubled the speed of my game by giving up on C++
Mar 25, 2015: 4 things every space game must have
Mar 18, 2015: After a long journey, Sol Trader has been greenlit!
Mar 11, 2015: Why video game coders don't use TDD, and why it matters
Jan 7, 2015: 7 things I've learnt in 3 years coding my first indie game
Jan 7, 2015: New for 2015: Sol Trader now on Kickstarter

2014

Dec 2, 2014: Why you can scale agile with the right attitudes
Aug 4, 2014: Why BDD works solo, and why that matters for everyone
Jul 8, 2014: How not to check in temporary code
May 7, 2014: How to decide whether a tool is right for you
Apr 16, 2014: 4 questions to discover if you're *really* agile...
Apr 14, 2014: How to layer context into your features using Real Narrative
Feb 12, 2014: Make Cucumber features more readable with this one weird trick

2013

Nov 26, 2013: How to give BDD a chance
Nov 19, 2013: BDD Kickstart is dead. Long live...
Nov 11, 2013: How I learned to stop worrying and love (some) detailed Cucumber features
Oct 7, 2013: Use Markdown to send HTML email via Mutt: now working on iOS mail
Sep 19, 2013: The toolchain of dreams
Sep 2, 2013: Extreme isolation part 3: coding a CRUD app (with full example)
Aug 29, 2013: BDD: How to deal stories into features
Aug 9, 2013: Why Continuous Delivery and BDD play so nicely
Aug 6, 2013: Introducing Card Pirates
Jul 16, 2013: Extreme isolation part 2: separate the domain from the changes
Jun 17, 2013: Rack::Usermanual - Cucumber features as in-app user manual
May 14, 2013: Slides for "Leading software teams well"
May 9, 2013: Extreme isolation in web apps: part 1
Apr 26, 2013: Features are documentation, not tests
Mar 6, 2013: BDD without tools: testing shell script
Feb 7, 2013: The perils of curiosity
Jan 21, 2013: "Project velocity is a useless metric." Discuss.
Jan 16, 2013: That's not BDD, that's just Cucumber
Jan 10, 2013: Dependency injection != Inversion of Control
Jan 3, 2013: BDD Kickstart: London and 2013 plans

2012

Dec 11, 2012: Cucumber: keeping the build passing
Nov 23, 2012: Scenarios are not Acceptance Criteria
Nov 15, 2012: Cucumber: the integration testing trap
Nov 7, 2012: Should we store state in our steps?
Oct 30, 2012: How to write a great story
Oct 25, 2012: The simplest Cucumber project ever
Oct 4, 2012: Delegated tasks are a team anti-pattern
Sep 28, 2012: Your framework is a liability
Sep 27, 2012: OStatus: what I've learnt in 24 hours
Sep 26, 2012: OStatus: like Twitter, but open
Sep 25, 2012: Job titles are a team anti-pattern
Sep 24, 2012: Your code is a liability
Sep 21, 2012: Introducing Morning Pages
Sep 20, 2012: Never leave a failing test
Sep 19, 2012: Cucumber isn't a testing tool
Sep 18, 2012: The power of good naming
Sep 17, 2012: Showroom software
Sep 14, 2012: Task assignment is a team anti-pattern
Sep 13, 2012: The power of feedback
Jul 27, 2012: Kickstart your team on BDD
May 15, 2012: Waxing Lyrical on Pathfinding
May 14, 2012: Attempting validated learning with Sol Trader
May 2, 2012: Sol Trader now in Alpha
Apr 16, 2012: A fresh take on DCI with C++ (with example)
Mar 23, 2012: Sol Trader: a continuous deployment story
Feb 17, 2012: On coding defensively
Feb 14, 2012: Sol Trader: on lighting
Feb 2, 2012: Effective bloom in OpenGL for Sol Trader
Jan 16, 2012: Switching Sol Trader from Ruby to C++: one week on
Jan 8, 2012: Why I switched from Ruby back to C++
Jan 3, 2012: Introducing Sol Trader

2011

Dec 14, 2011: A cache-busting http server script in ruby
Dec 8, 2011: Feature writing: multiple actors
Dec 6, 2011: How I'm testing iPhone apps: part 2
Dec 1, 2011: How I'm testing iPhone apps: part 1
Oct 17, 2011: Your tests are lying to you
Sep 15, 2011: Layers of abstraction: writing great cucumber code
Sep 12, 2011: Kanogo: vapourware to beta in 24 hours
Sep 6, 2011: Pin in the map: customisable pin icons
Sep 5, 2011: Layers of abstraction: combining BDD and UX
Aug 30, 2011: e-petitions: handling traffic
Aug 22, 2011: Work with me
Jul 29, 2011: e-petitions: deconstructed
May 26, 2011: Lean code: slides and feedback
May 17, 2011: Don't miss your greatest achievement
May 9, 2011: The Principle of Scattered Work
May 6, 2011: On Flow, and Katas
May 4, 2011: On Office Politics
Apr 18, 2011: Cucumbers with personality
Apr 15, 2011: A formula of motivation
Apr 12, 2011: Are apprenticeships scalable?
Apr 5, 2011: The team is the atomic unit of success
Apr 5, 2011: Certification: recommendation mass produced
Apr 4, 2011: On the nature of time
Apr 1, 2011: Pomodoros help you refactor
Mar 31, 2011: Are coding katas really worth it?
Mar 30, 2011: Learning to say Yes
Mar 29, 2011: Truly indispensable people
Mar 28, 2011: Pomodoros done (hopefully) right
Mar 25, 2011: Eden Development has closed

2010

Nov 16, 2010: How to get Spork working NOW on Rails 3, Rspec 2 and Cucumber
Nov 2, 2010: How I'm writing my book using Vim, Git and Ruby
Oct 18, 2010: Call for coders: Children's Future International
Jul 29, 2010: My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment
Jul 22, 2010: Card Of The Day: Actually Do Retrospective Actions
Jul 12, 2010: 750words.com + GTD = Focus
May 23, 2010: How to test your node.js app
May 21, 2010: User Experience Is Everything
May 16, 2010: Leancamp Report
May 12, 2010: Every Ash Cloud Has A Silver Lining
Mar 29, 2010: Announcing edash
Mar 22, 2010: Multiple CI Joes with Rack and Passenger
Mar 22, 2010: Radiating status at Eden
Mar 17, 2010: Five things I learnt from Corey Haines
Mar 8, 2010: Archivey the Robot
Mar 7, 2010: Introducing Pushy - github notifications to google wave
Feb 21, 2010: BBC Talk on A Philosophy of Software
Feb 11, 2010: The Story Card Is Not The Story
Jan 27, 2010: Pairing works for everything
Jan 15, 2010: Driving out feature ambiguity

2009

Dec 29, 2009: Old blog articles from yesteryear
Dec 23, 2009: R.I.P. Web 1.0
Dec 20, 2009: Snakes and Ladders Kata
Dec 15, 2009: Craftsmanship vs. Apprenticeship
Dec 14, 2009: Jekyll, the blog engine of kings
Dec 14, 2009: Welcome

2006

Oct 24, 2006: SVG Planner
Apr 11, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ That's a wrap
Apr 1, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ A Journey
Mar 9, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session Eight ~ Such a bind
Mar 2, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session Seven ~ Beating the Command Framework into Submission
Feb 16, 2006: TDD ~ The Tortoise and the Hare
Feb 10, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session Six ~ The View
Feb 3, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session Five ~ Applications, windows, views
Jan 28, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session One ~ Beans, Shmeans and services
Jan 26, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session Three ~ How did that work then?
Jan 24, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session Two ~ Hello World
Jan 23, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Session One ~ Making Petclinic work
Jan 23, 2006: Spring Richclient ~ Introduction