Blog of Rob Galanakis (@robgalanakis)

Archive for April, 2012

Why GUI’s Lock Up

This is a post for the Tech Artists and new programmers out there. I am going to answer the common question “why do my GUI’s lock up” and, to a lesser extent, “what can I do about it.” I’m going to tell a story of a mouse click event....

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TDD for legacy code, graphics code, and legacy graphics code?

We’re currently undergoing a push to do more ‘Agile testing’ at work. At CCP, we “do” Agile pretty well, but I don’t think we “code” Agile really well. A large part (the largest part?) of Agile coding and Agile testing is TDD/Unit Testing, of which I’m a huge fan...

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