FAQ: Starting Your Career in Software Development Pt2
Are you starting your career in software development? Check out this FAQ-style article for tips on applying for jobs, reaching out, and interviewing!
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June 20, 2021
Software Development – Launching Into Your Career FAQ
Starting your career in software development? Here are some frequently asked questions about post secondary education working towards this!
June 9, 2021
Ascending to the Next Level – RPG Dev Weekly #2
(You can check out the prior week of RPG development here) Well, so far not so great for getting weekly posts on RPG development! It's probably better for me to aim to do these periodically and summarize the last week or so of work. Fewer commitments that way and it's a bit more realistic for me to achieve. With that said, let's dive into it! Entity Filtering in an RPG Our RPG has had some notion of entity filtering for a long time, but to understand the current state of filtering, it's important to understand the two major sets of entities and components we have: Game Objects + Behaviors: Everything in our RPG game world is represented as a "game object" and the properties/capabilities are captured by components called "behaviors" Definitions + Generator Components: The content for our game is…
June 8, 2021
OKRs: First Steps for Crushing Your Objectives and Key Results
You've heard about OKRs but you're not exactly sure where to get started. Don't sweat it. Here's a brief intro on how you can get going!
May 28, 2021
TileMap – How To Get ALL The Tiles Effortlessly!
If you're building a 2D game in Unity3D, odds are you've come across the TileMap component. The TileMap is a powerful tool that allows you to create a grid of tiles that you can render your tiles with instead of hand-placing individual game objects with sprites. It has a host of built in functionality that you might otherwise find yourself manually writing, like mapping coordinates to particular cells on a map. And what's even cooler about using a TileMap? You don't need to handroll your own editor to paint tiles! I think I'd pass on having to do that. But have you found yourself in a situation where you want to get all of the painted tiles on a TileMap? You may have found it's not quite as obvious as you'd have hoped! What We Have To Work With On…
May 18, 2021
Tests: A Quick Overview on Unit vs Functional Testing
Unit tests or functional tests? What's the difference and which ones should you be using? Find out in this super quick compare-and-contrast!
May 7, 2021
Engineering Manager – What’s Expected in the Role?
Want to understand what does an engineering manager do and what's expected in an engineering manager role? Let's learn about the role of an engineering manager!
May 5, 2021
Ascending to the Next Level – RPG Dev Weekly #1
As I've been trying to get more YouTube content put together more steadily, one of the themes I'm interested in is doing some behind-the-scenes of the role playing game (RPG) I'm making with some friends in Unity3D. I've found that being able to work on an RPG outside of my regular day job is a really awesome way for me to keep up on my technical skills. I love coding, and the further along I move in my career as an engineering manager, the less time I actually spend writing code myself. I pride myself in being a technical engineering manager, so for me working on this RPG is a great outlet for creativity and practice. I mentioned this in my LinkedIn post here: Persisting Game Objects Across Maps In this video, I focus on one of the challenges the…
May 2, 2021
NoesisGUI – The Unity UI Framework That You’ve Never Heard Of!
Looking for a better way to make Unity3D user interfaces? Love WPF/XAML but not the Unity UI Framework? You probably aren't using Noesis GUI, but you should be!
April 26, 2021
