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Comment on How and why I joined the “suit people” by Carl Byström

Carl Byström — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:50:31 +0000

Great to hear about your job!

Regarding Ruby in games, I think dynamic languages are still underused by game devs as for scripting games. Sure, a few big players such as Blizzard are in the game with Lua. But there’s lots of room left for improvement.

Anyway, I’m glad to hear that SCEA are embracing Ruby even if it’s not for game scripting (or is it? )

Comment on Undo/Redo in MacRuby by victor

victor — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:06:23 +0000

You writing a book with ORA? Cool! Let us know when the drafts are available as a Rough Cut (if you go that way)

Comment on MacRuby 0.5 final is out by MacRuby 0.5 Released: A Significant, Stable Release « Особое программирование

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:50:34 +0000

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Comment on How and why I joined the “suit people” by Matt Aimonetti

Matt Aimonetti — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:34:40 +0000

Thanks Arun, I actually wore a suit for my first day (well, just the jacket) but it was more a joke than anything else. I’m back to my usual flip-flops, jeans and tshirts

Comment on How and why I joined the “suit people” by Arun

Arun — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:52:19 +0000

Congrats Matt, they’ll not regret the decision.

Do a post of picture of yourself dressed in “suit”

Comment on Undo/Redo in MacRuby by ecin

ecin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:14:38 +0000

Consider it done:

http://copypastel.com/rofl/Doing_the_Undoable

The code for Undoable is up on Github:

http://github.com/ecin/undoable

Comment on Undo/Redo in MacRuby by ecin

ecin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:40:42 +0000

Whoops, actually got it working by yielding the proxy object that [NSUndoManager prepareWithInvocationTarget] returns.

http://pastie.org/813714

Now to find better names for these methods.

Comment on Undo/Redo in MacRuby by ecin

ecin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:08:31 +0000

Well, gave it a short shot, but all I’m getting are segfaults and type-errors.

http://pastie.org/813681

I’ll have to come back to that later on.

Comment on How and why I joined the “suit people” by david N.

david N. — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:04:30 +0000

Hey I don’t know you (I am new to programming as a hobby and recently joined SD Ruby) but believe me I feel your plight.

For years I was self employed and rather than enjoying the “I’m my own boss” attitude, I ended up working all the time and blurring the lines between where my work hours start and ended.

There’s so much stigmata about corporate environments, but its pretty nice to have stability, insurance, random perks, and getting paid whether you slack off or not.

Congratulations to you for getting a job in this economy, I’m a bit eager to get back into the corporate world where work stays at work and weekends are for me. I also miss working towards that common goal as a team, like you mentioned.

Good luck to ya.

Comment on How and why I joined the “suit people” by Peter Gumeson

Peter Gumeson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:19:06 +0000

Not quite ready to settle down yet. Just feeling sorry for anyone trying for the same job as you… It was my failed attempt at a compliment.