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Is QA a good stepping stone?
I’ve always heard that it was difficult to move from QA into development (game design/programming/art/production). I thought this was smart- QA people should be there to be QA people, not doing a job only because they hope it would lead to something else. And at some companies, it works....
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How to deal with being a negative developer
There was a recent AltDevBlogADay post about Negative Developers and Team Stability that hit home. It’s not that I think the advice was particularly interesting (good, standard stuff), it’s that it reminded be that I’ve been a negative developer. I don’t know what I could have done differently. I just wasn’t...
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Someone has a hat to eat
In December, I made a blog post about being happy. A anonymous (of course) commenter said: Hey Rob. 5 months? Are you really this shortsighted? It’s like watching a kid say he’ll NEVER get tired of THIS toy. Frankly, if you don’t get tired of it you stopped growing....
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Some tipping tips for non-American GDC/PyCon attendees (and American ones too)
Games Developers Conference and PyCon are both coming up, which means lots of familiar international travelers in the US. A post on G+ asked about how the tipping system works in the US. I’m not going to list the percentages and people (though I will say aim for 20% and always...
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A few blog site guidelines
Adding feeds to Planet Tech Art, it became clear that not everyone studies great bloggers like Scott Hanselman or Dave Winer. Here are some rules: Your full name should appear somewhere on your main page. Prominently if you are advertising yourself, but at least somewhere in the footer or...
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Do you remember what being happy feels like?
As I’m coming up on my 5-month mark at my new job, I was thinking about how happy I am here at CCP. I’ve been waking up at 7:30 for weeks, braving the frigid Icelandic mornings, because I have been so excited to get into work. My happiness caused...
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To Verizon and Motorola: Let me use my own goddamn property
My first cell phone was a Verizon phone, and when I moved out after college I stuck with Verizon. The only reason I cancelled my Verizon plan was because Casady and I moved to Iceland, where our CDMA phones do not work. (CDMA is a type of cell communications...
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Update
Sorry for the lack of activity lately. I was moving from Atlanta and CCP’s studio there, back to Austin for a week, got married, moved to Iceland, started at CCP Reykjavik, and found a new apartment. So I’ve barely blogged or G+’ed anything. I’m going to start blogging again,...
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Compliments to the chef!
My mother tells a story that when she was in her early 20’s, she was the (only) chef in a small Spanish restaurant, in a tiny kitchen with a Mexican dishwasher. One time, a food critic dined there, and enjoyed his paella so much that he went into the back...
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I’m on Google+
I’m on Google+, and it is the FIRST social networking site I’ve ever actively participated in. It seems pretty awesome so far, have I been missing this on Facebook all these years? Fine me here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112207898076601628221/posts//p/pub
