Author Archives: geoff

Some Code Organization Patterns

Posted on June 1, 2011 by geoff

This was originally published on AltDevBlogADay in June of 2011 Lately I am settling into a new job over at Neversoft.  There are some awesome folks over there, and I am really enjoying it so far.  Along with starting a … Continue reading →

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PopStocks: Post-Mortem of a Facebook Game

Posted on March 1, 2011 by geoff

This was originally published on AltDevBlogADay in March of 2011 Myself, Andy Burke, Rachel Mark, Marc Hernandez, and Paul Haile have built a Facebook game.  The goal was to spend 1 week building a game that would be fun enough and monetized … Continue reading →

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Behind the Mirror

Posted on February 1, 2011 by geoff

Reflection is a programming language feature that adds the ability for a program to utilize its own structure to inform its behavior. Reflection has its costs, but those are often outweighed by ability to automate the following:
• Serializing objects into and out of a file
• Cloning, comparison, search indexing, and network replication
• Type conversion (copying base data between derived class instances)
• User interface generation and data binding Continue reading →

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