Links

Links to things I find useful.

You can contribute to this list by sending a Pull Request.

Testing

• Spock: Groovy based test framework. Less verbose than JUnit, supports Stubs, Mocks, Spies and data driven testing (my favorite feature).
• The Transformation priority premise: Refactorings are simple operations that change the structure of code without changing it’s behavior. Transformations are simple operations that change the behavior of code.

Optimizing

• Two excellent posts from Jeff Atwood you should read every time you think about optimizing something: Why aren’t my optimizations optimizing, The sad tragedy of micro optimization theater

Game development

I grew playing adventure games. I might eventually right one, just for fun. These are the things and people that keep me wanting to do that.

• Ron Gilbert’s blog

People (and their blogs)

Likely people here will have their own Wikipedia entry. I’ll add some context when that’s not the case.

• Ron Gilbert
• Jaime Zawinski
• Fabien Sanglard: His game engine reviews are fantastic.
• Coda Hale: I don’t remember how this blog got into my feed reader. Doesn’t publish often, but when that happens it’s worth the read.