The importance of the RogueLike for the developer

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We are going to see a lot more articles and tutorials from me  on roguelike games this year and part of the reason for this is the importance for these type of games for the beginner/intermediate developer. Whilst it’s obviously hard to build any sort of 3d game for a beginner developerwithout assistance – building a simple yet playable roguelike game however (even just using a windows console app say using C#) is quite possible. OK you are not going to make a fortune out of a simple textbased rouguelike ,but you may well be able to get your friends to play it!!!

Some cool links for roguelikes:

http://www.roguetemple.com/

http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.com/

http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/12/12/shadowcasting-in-c-part-one.aspx

Dom

Welcome to 2012 – did I ever say that I like castles… [OT]

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I have been away on holiday (vacation) for december so its been very quiet on the blog but will try to improve this situation now that I am back. I did have some serious fun seeing lots of castles… Did I ever explain that I really like castles…

photo from Alhambra

photo from Alhambra

OK yeah so I saw lots of castles…

Picture of Tower of London

Tower of London

and more castles…

Photo of Valencia city walls

Valencia city walls

Great to be back home though

Dom

Fix for ASP.NET MVC3 Add Controller – An item with the same key has already been added

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Just an interesting little find – so I added a new entity to my EDMX and lo and behold I start getting the “An item with the same key has already been added” when I tried to add a controller – anyway the fix was to remove a couple of rougue navigational properties that had been added automatically!!!!

So if you don’t need them and they are causing this problem – remove them

Dom

Good sample developer resumes on the Net

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Bit of research (googling) led me to these links on developers resumes/cv:

I like this one except for the money stuff at the bottom

http://www.developerresume.org/

Another good one imho – nice and short

http://www.careerfaqs.com.au/careers/sample-resumes-and-cover-letters/web-developer-resume/

Excellent tips for writing once

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-tips-for-writing-a-job-winning-developer-resume/274

Another sample I like – yeah its old school – yeah its not got any major formatting – but it hits the spot for me

http://www.ash-associates.com/example_cv.html

More soon

Dom

Hanselman on Resumes

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Ok I do occaisionally blog about being the better developer, getting a better job etc… but one area that I rarely talk about is developers resumes – or for that matter developer selection criterias. Having read a million of both I think I have a good idea of what makes a good one but of course thats quite subjective but when I saw the master hanselman was blogging about it I thought it would be good to extend this to the world:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IKnowApps.aspx

I’ll try to blog on this subject if I can get some feedback from my dev mates – of course anyone out there who has thoughts on what makes a good dev Resume/CV – leave a comment and I’ll include it (or the spirit of the comment) in my blog on the subject.

Dom