Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outletThoughts that Chris Sells has about whatever interests him that day$200 Off Early Registration for PDC2008!- (Found July 15, 2008 ) I love the smell of the PDC in the morning!http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2180 The Next Generation- (Found July 15, 2008 ) When I was in high school, "game programmer" meant at best BASIC or at worst 6502 assembly language, but either way, lots of text manipulation. These days, high school-age programmers are going to camps and programming competitions having spent their time in drag-n-drop programming environments like Game Maker. They've been doing work flow for 7 versions already! Yesterday, I was a judge and the keynote speaker at a high school game programming contest. After asking a bunch of the 25 teams...http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2179 Why I Love My Tribe and Want You To Join It!- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Recently, I went to lunch with some friends of mine from the DevelopMentor Software days (wow, that was a long time ago) and they accused me of "radio silence" for the last two years. "What" I said. "I blog all the time!" "Oh yeah What have you been working on again" "Uhhh..." I've mentioned my work on this blog in passing as "model-driven" this or "data-driven" that, but never the details. And I still can't tell you those kinds of details. But what I can tell you is how I spend my days,...http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2178 Nobody Knows Shoes: The Book -- Pure Genius!- (Found July 15, 2008 ) I friend of mine dropped a book with a funny cover in my lap and said, "Hey, check this out." I threw it on my pile and didn't get back to it for a few days. When I did, I didn't know what to make of it. It was like The Grapes of Wrath by Rory Blyth, with illustrations by a drunk Salvador Dali. It took a few pages, but I eventually figured out that "Shoes" was a cross-platform GUI framework for Ruby and this 52-page book was a tutorial for it. By page 15, I knew the major concepts. By page 20,..http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2177 George Carlin, Rest In Peace- (Found July 15, 2008 ) When I was a teenager, some kids were sneaking out to get drunk or have sex. I was sneaking into my parents' record collection to listen to George Carlin. Unfortunately, unleashing my version of his brand of humor on my peers was one of the things that kept me from being invited for parties or sex, but I still dearly loved the man and was very sorry to hear that he passed away yesterday. Certain situations still trigger George Carlin responses whether I want them to or not; he is permanently...http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2183 |