So I’m off to Brighton today to give a talk at Develop entitled “Building World-class Art Tools”. As my first conference presentation, it’s equal parts exciting and scary, although the scary part probably hasn’t hit home fully yet. I’ll not say too much about the contents of the talk itself just now, but I will [...]
Archive for July, 2008
My, um, presentation about, er, tools
Posted in Develop 08 on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Maths love
Posted in Education, Maths on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s really a crying shame that more people don’t love maths. If you thinking I’m talking crazy right now, or are at all dubious, it’s because what you haven’t been shown what maths really is. What you were taught at school was almost certainly awful. There’s no better way to illustrate than Paul Lockhart’s analogy [...]
Anti-social networking
Posted in Rants on July 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but I’m highly sick of social networking. Not wanting to pick on one in particular, but what triggered me to write about this was a reminder I got today from Plaxo that my “invitation from jimmy is about to expire” – apparently this invitation was sent in November last year [...]
Action time
Posted in Management, Management for Geeks on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part 3 of management for geeks.
When it comes to improving your management skills, I can’t think of many better recommendations than an action plan – sometimes called a personal development plan, or something equally cheesy. It’s deceptively simple:
Analyse your current situation/skills
Work out where you want to get to
Find some concrete steps you can take to [...]
Dare to be Digital 2008
Posted in Education, Game development on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had the fortune today of spending a day as a technical consultant to the Dundee teams in Dare to be Digital 2008 – a day that definitely exceeded my expectations Before I say any more, I have to get this off my chest – wow, these guys have done some amazing stuff [...]
