In college I was driven to learn and make the most of the experience. It became common to start a project Friday night only to never touch it again after that Saturday or Sunday. This was great practice, but each projects became a nightmare to manage. Nearly all of them fell to the underdarks to collect dust, never to be built or ran again. Recently, however, I’ve been able to let a project sit on the side for six months and pick it back up like I worked on it yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

I had a bug very recently that took much longer to track down than it needed to.  Actually, it should never have been a bug.  I’ve updated my coding standards accordingly and will make my best efforts to never allow this sort of bug to happen in the future.

I was making Pong, and had some code similar to the following:

enum PaddleType { kLeftPaddle, kRightPaddle };
class Paddle {
public:
  Paddle(const PaddleType& type) : mPaddleType(type) { }
private:
  const PaddleType mPaddleType;
};

At first glance this seems like acceptable code Read the rest of this entry »