As a developer with close to twenty years of experience, I’ve been asked to estimate work time and again. The primary method for estimation has been using Agile methodologies, which most in the tech industry understand all too well. You pick a t-shirt size, Fibonacci score, etc., to essentially say, “This task is...

Speedrunning is when you try to complete a video game as fast as possible. You can speedrun individual levels, you can speedrun specific categories like 100% where you try and collect all items and complete all quests, etc. but the main category is Any% — get to the end as fast as possible, anything goes. For many...

A mission post by Lieutenant Zola, Ensign Qanval Mission - Blow Their Bloody Lobes Off Rule 22 bank had its main branch in a prominent location in the Great Marketplace, not far from the Tower of Commerce, and was among the most recognizable buildings short of the tower itself. As profit never sleeps, the bank never...

When you want people who don’t know or like each other to work well together, assign them tasks that require cooperation. These tasks should not be achievable by only one side; they must utilize the skills and knowledge of both parties. Once you identify the perfect task, you’ll notice how both sides begin to...

While I still use LaTeX and Sphinx for my report writing I still needed a replacement for Adobe InDesign. Scribus fits the bill perfectly.

SAY Media's Troy Young at the company's Create 2011 event; image via YouTube. It was Thursday, October 20, 2011, and I only had one meeting on my schedule: SAY Media at 9:00 a.m. The Web 2.0 Summit had ended yesterday, but with all the business meetings and M&A talk with Sean, I’d hardly noticed. I would be on a...

I like nice pencils and pens! But only a totally reasonable amount!

As I’ve stated before, writing regularly and publishing your work has many benefits. There’s one thing, though, that I didn’t really have on my radar, but that probably brings me the most joy. Every now and then, a piece of writing resonates with someone and that person even decides to share it. Either by posting a...

A game is the complete exploration of freedom within a restrictive environment. Vineet Raj Kapoor Let my web-game-creating career begin 🥳! Today, I would like to present my first game for the web called Simon Says, and I did it all using web components. Without further ado, let's just jump in. The game Here she is:...