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Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Nov 23, 2011

I’ll just refactor that…

I originally posted this to #AltDevBlogADay on Saturday November 12, 2011.

Refactor: Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior.

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Jul 27, 2011

Is It Green Yet? Improving Our CI Process

I originally posted this to AltDevBlogADay on Friday 15th July 2011.

Having a Continuous Integration server running is one of the most useful and powerful tools a development team can use. Constantly checking the state of the code…

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Nov 23, 2010

Why Code Reviews Don’t Work

I’m a strong believer in code reviews. Having developers review and discuss code in development is one of the best ways to ensure good code quality and provides an excellent way to share domain knowledge with team members who may otherwise not get the opportunity. It also allows…

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

May 16, 2009

Why We Use ReviewBoard For Code Reviews

I was going to write a couple of reviews covering the various code reviews tools I’ve tried over the past year or so, but the notes I made on each one seem to have mysteriously vanished. And since it wouldn’t be fair on the various tools we used to try and…

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

May 3, 2009

Code Review Methods

In the last post I went over some of the reasons why code reviews are important in building a stable and secure project. I wanted to follow that by covering the different review methods we’ve used in the past and the ways in which each one worked or in some cases didn’t.

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Apr 13, 2009

I’ll Show You Mine If…

Code reviews have a bad reputation. Claims of wasting time, pedantic reviewers and hot-shot programmers all crop up as reasons why teams shouldn’t and don’t bother reviewing any of the code that is being used in what could be a multi-million dollar project. But why would you want to have…

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Apr 4, 2009

Using Your Own Tools

This is the true story… of seven(ish) programmers… picked to make a game… to work with the tools they created… to find out what happens… when tools programmers… start using the tools they make… in the real world.

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Feb 28, 2009

Continuous Integration — Taking It Further

Our current Continuous Integration process works quite nicely and has greatly benefited our team, but these systems can always be extended and improved upon. The following post will simply cover some of the ideas I have for the future and how it might…

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Feb 8, 2009

Continuous Integration — Self Testing Builds

So far we have a process which guarantees that the game builds and that the assets can be generated. We have processes for doing this automatically and for making sure people are as up to date as possible. But there is still one question which none of…

Lee Winder in Engineering Game Development

Feb 2, 2009

Continuous Integration — What About The Rest?

Games are not just code. Art, design, music and QA all get in the way, making the whole CI process harder, but actually making the game fun! It’s just as important that the CI process benefits these guys otherwise there are still going to be a…