Amazon launched the Amazon Elasticsearch Service less than a month ago to enable their clients to spin up scalable Elasticsearch clusters directly from the AWS Management Console and forget about about managing these clusters by themselves. While you can spin up and use an Elasticsearch cluster in...
Enabling AspectJ support in Java is a bit of a “love” story in itself. But making sure aspect weaving works for Amazon Simple Workflow in the Maven context (in which, I might say, any developer that operates in a production environment lives and breathes) is...
This October, through the DADIU initiative, I had the chance to do a Unity related internship at Multiverse ApS, the small studio responsible for KoGaMa. Before you start jumping around and arguing that this is a Minecraft clone, hear these guys out, because the idea...
Little Brothers may not be much for most people that visit my portfolio, it being a very rough sketch of a prototype of a game (a seed of an idea, honestly). But it has a special meaning for me. It’s the first attempt at a...
There has been a whole lot of talk on how to implement code syntax highlighting into Zendesk, both into the forums frontend and the ticket system. While the intergration of Markdown into the backend now offers a decent solution for tickets, the same cannot be...
During the development of the HOTAH game under the DADIU initiative, I found myself flirting with Unity shader programming. More specifically, the art direction suggested we should have some nifty looking water which reminds of the milky water in Limbo. Limbo being a pure 2D game...
This October, through the DADIU initiative, I had the chance to do a Unity related internship at Multiverse ApS, the small studio responsible for KoGaMa. Before you start jumping around and arguing that this is a Minecraft clone, hear these guys out, because the idea...
If you are a starting game designer/programmer like I am you’ll most likely want to be able to showcase your creations easily on your personal blog or website. Since I’ve been using Unity a lot lately I wanted to make publishing my Unity Web Player...
‘Talking with Tech Leads’ is different from the very first pages, because it doesn’t take a quantitative approach to leadership, but the much mor...
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When you first start reading William Goldman’s masterpiece, you can’t shake the feeling that you’re reading a Terry Pratchett novel that takes it...
I dived into “The Hard Thing about Hard Things” to hopefully become a better CTO. Granted, the advice in the book is definitel...
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées...
The gist Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper catches fire. The book presents a fictional universe in which reading is both illegal a...
The gist The title of the book is a bit misleading. This book is not about not giving a f*ck at all, but rather about being selective about the f...
My heart is like a big, fat, ripe pomegranate. Juicy, yet stale pieces of it fall off with every beat and every impulse of every common day, unti...
Amazon launched the Amazon Elasticsearch Service less than a month ago to enable their clients to spin up scalable Elasticsearch cluste...
Enabling AspectJ support in Java is a bit of a “love” story in itself. But making sure aspect weaving works for Amazon Simple Workflo...
To associate myths with computer games may at first appear as nonsense, as a random connection between two concepts that loosely stand together. ...
