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A new adventure

30 Dec 2017

Why Ealdorlight's Kickstarter might have failed

19 Nov 2017

Ealdorlight's Kickstarter is live at 4pm today

06 Jun 2017

How Ealdorlight's story stands out

10 May 2017

Ealdorlight Kickstarter on 6th June, Sol Trader 1.3 released

28 Apr 2017

Introducing: Ealdorlight

31 Mar 2017

What's next for Sol Trader and me

22 Feb 2017

How to lead your life

06 Jan 2017

5 ways I screwed up Sol Trader's launch: a post-mortem

28 Jun 2016

Extreme YAGNI: How BDD nails your prototyping stage

04 May 2016

Gossip: the best new Sol Trader feature for ages

09 Feb 2016

The top 5 space games of 2015

28 Jan 2016

Sol Trader at EGX Rezzed: 7-9 April 2016

25 Jan 2016

The cunning plans of Sol Trader

12 Jan 2016

Full disclosure: Sol Trader conversation upgrades

01 Jan 2016

The Sol Trader Christmas Eve update: moddable missions

24 Dec 2015

New Sol Trader beta: the science of blame and unforgiveness

02 Dec 2015

Modelling opinions and prejudices in Sol Trader

27 Nov 2015

Sol Trader combat preview

11 Nov 2015

Why (I hope) I will weather the Indiepocalypse

02 Oct 2015

Sol Trader Kickstarter now live!

21 Sep 2015

Three days to go

18 Sep 2015

Gossip as a game mechanic

03 Sep 2015

How to add live code reload to your game

19 Aug 2015

Why I wrote Sol Trader's GUI code from scratch

01 Aug 2015

Sol Trader will be at EGX in September!

22 Jul 2015

3 new screenshots of Sol Trader's new interface

18 Jul 2015

Trailer: How it will feel to move around Sol Trader's cities

17 Jul 2015

How Sol Trader uses information as currency

24 Jun 2015

The difference review and planning makes to indie development

17 Jun 2015

How to quickly add bloom to your game engine

10 Jun 2015

The huge difference a good Entity System could make to your game

03 Jun 2015

How tone of voice works in Sol Trader's dialogue system

27 May 2015

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up

20 May 2015

How dialogue works in Sol Trader

13 May 2015

How face generation works in Sol Trader

06 May 2015

How I'm using Proxemics in Sol Trader's game design

28 Apr 2015

Why I ditched all the build tools in favour of a simple script

22 Apr 2015

How to choose between realism and fun in game design

15 Apr 2015

Your abstractions are a liability

08 Apr 2015

How I doubled the speed of my game by giving up on C++

01 Apr 2015

4 things every space game must have

25 Mar 2015

After a long journey, Sol Trader has been greenlit!

18 Mar 2015

Why video game coders don't use TDD, and why it matters

11 Mar 2015

7 things I've learnt in 3 years coding my first indie game

07 Jan 2015

New for 2015: Sol Trader now on Kickstarter

07 Jan 2015

Why you can scale agile with the right attitudes

02 Dec 2014

Why BDD works solo, and why that matters for everyone

04 Aug 2014

How not to check in temporary code

08 Jul 2014

How to decide whether a tool is right for you

07 May 2014

4 questions to discover if you're *really* agile...

16 Apr 2014

How to layer context into your features using Real Narrative

14 Apr 2014

Make Cucumber features more readable with this one weird trick

12 Feb 2014

How to give BDD a chance

26 Nov 2013

BDD Kickstart is dead. Long live...

19 Nov 2013

How I learned to stop worrying and love (some) detailed Cucumber features

11 Nov 2013

Use Markdown to send HTML email via Mutt: now working on iOS mail

07 Oct 2013

The toolchain of dreams

19 Sep 2013

Extreme isolation part 3: coding a CRUD app (with full example)

02 Sep 2013

BDD: How to deal stories into features

29 Aug 2013

Why Continuous Delivery and BDD play so nicely

09 Aug 2013

Introducing Card Pirates

06 Aug 2013

Extreme isolation part 2: separate the domain from the changes

16 Jul 2013

Rack::Usermanual - Cucumber features as in-app user manual

17 Jun 2013

Slides for "Leading software teams well"

14 May 2013

Extreme isolation in web apps: part 1

09 May 2013

Features are documentation, not tests

26 Apr 2013

BDD without tools: testing shell script

06 Mar 2013

The perils of curiosity

07 Feb 2013

"Project velocity is a useless metric." Discuss.

21 Jan 2013

That's not BDD, that's just Cucumber

16 Jan 2013

Dependency injection != Inversion of Control

10 Jan 2013

BDD Kickstart: London and 2013 plans

03 Jan 2013

Cucumber: keeping the build passing

11 Dec 2012

Scenarios are not Acceptance Criteria

23 Nov 2012

Cucumber: the integration testing trap

15 Nov 2012

Should we store state in our steps?

07 Nov 2012

How to write a great story

30 Oct 2012

The simplest Cucumber project ever

25 Oct 2012

Delegated tasks are a team anti-pattern

04 Oct 2012

Your framework is a liability

28 Sep 2012

OStatus: what I've learnt in 24 hours

27 Sep 2012

OStatus: like Twitter, but open

26 Sep 2012

Job titles are a team anti-pattern

25 Sep 2012

Your code is a liability

24 Sep 2012

Introducing Morning Pages

21 Sep 2012

Never leave a failing test

20 Sep 2012

Cucumber isn't a testing tool

19 Sep 2012

The power of good naming

18 Sep 2012

Showroom software

17 Sep 2012

Task assignment is a team anti-pattern

14 Sep 2012

The power of feedback

13 Sep 2012

Kickstart your team on BDD

27 Jul 2012

Waxing Lyrical on Pathfinding

15 May 2012

Attempting validated learning with Sol Trader

14 May 2012

Sol Trader now in Alpha

02 May 2012

A fresh take on DCI with C++ (with example)

16 Apr 2012

Sol Trader: a continuous deployment story

23 Mar 2012

On coding defensively

17 Feb 2012

Sol Trader: on lighting

14 Feb 2012

Effective bloom in OpenGL for Sol Trader

02 Feb 2012

Switching Sol Trader from Ruby to C++: one week on

16 Jan 2012

Why I switched from Ruby back to C++

08 Jan 2012

Introducing Sol Trader

03 Jan 2012

A cache-busting http server script in ruby

14 Dec 2011

Feature writing: multiple actors

08 Dec 2011

How I'm testing iPhone apps: part 2

06 Dec 2011

How I'm testing iPhone apps: part 1

01 Dec 2011

Your tests are lying to you

17 Oct 2011

Layers of abstraction: writing great cucumber code

15 Sep 2011

Kanogo: vapourware to beta in 24 hours

12 Sep 2011

Pin in the map: customisable pin icons

06 Sep 2011

Layers of abstraction: combining BDD and UX

05 Sep 2011

e-petitions: handling traffic

30 Aug 2011

Work with me

22 Aug 2011

e-petitions: deconstructed

29 Jul 2011

Lean code: slides and feedback

26 May 2011

Don't miss your greatest achievement

17 May 2011

The Principle of Scattered Work

09 May 2011

On Flow, and Katas

06 May 2011

On Office Politics

04 May 2011

Cucumbers with personality

18 Apr 2011

A formula of motivation

15 Apr 2011

Are apprenticeships scalable?

12 Apr 2011

The team is the atomic unit of success

05 Apr 2011

Certification: recommendation mass produced

05 Apr 2011

On the nature of time

04 Apr 2011

Pomodoros help you refactor

01 Apr 2011

Are coding katas really worth it?

31 Mar 2011

Learning to say Yes

30 Mar 2011

Truly indispensable people

29 Mar 2011

Pomodoros done (hopefully) right

28 Mar 2011

Eden Development has closed

25 Mar 2011

How to get Spork working NOW on Rails 3, Rspec 2 and Cucumber

16 Nov 2010

How I'm writing my book using Vim, Git and Ruby

02 Nov 2010

Call for coders: Children's Future International

18 Oct 2010

My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment

29 Jul 2010

Card Of The Day: Actually Do Retrospective Actions

22 Jul 2010

750words.com + GTD = Focus

12 Jul 2010

How to test your node.js app

23 May 2010

User Experience Is Everything

21 May 2010

Leancamp Report

16 May 2010

Every Ash Cloud Has A Silver Lining

12 May 2010

Announcing edash

29 Mar 2010

Multiple CI Joes with Rack and Passenger

22 Mar 2010

Radiating status at Eden

22 Mar 2010

Five things I learnt from Corey Haines

17 Mar 2010

Archivey the Robot

08 Mar 2010

Introducing Pushy - github notifications to google wave

07 Mar 2010

BBC Talk on A Philosophy of Software

21 Feb 2010

The Story Card Is Not The Story

11 Feb 2010

Pairing works for everything

27 Jan 2010

Driving out feature ambiguity

15 Jan 2010

Old blog articles from yesteryear

29 Dec 2009

R.I.P. Web 1.0

23 Dec 2009

Snakes and Ladders Kata

20 Dec 2009

Craftsmanship vs. Apprenticeship

15 Dec 2009

Jekyll, the blog engine of kings

14 Dec 2009

Welcome

14 Dec 2009

SVG Planner

24 Oct 2006

Spring Richclient ~ That's a wrap

11 Apr 2006

Spring Richclient ~ A Journey

01 Apr 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session Eight ~ Such a bind

09 Mar 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session Seven ~ Beating the Command Framework into Submission

02 Mar 2006

TDD ~ The Tortoise and the Hare

16 Feb 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session Six ~ The View

10 Feb 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session Five ~ Applications, windows, views

03 Feb 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session One ~ Beans, Shmeans and services

28 Jan 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session Three ~ How did that work then?

26 Jan 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session Two ~ Hello World

24 Jan 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Session One ~ Making Petclinic work

23 Jan 2006

Spring Richclient ~ Introduction

23 Jan 2006