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  • Zombie code

    Zombie code

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    28 Jan, 2019

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    Glen Young

    Part of developing (and certainly learning to develop) is creating code, commenting it out, and creating a better version. As you get into a flow state with coding it’s really easy to get into the habit of doing this and not going…

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  • Keep your friends close and your variables closer

    Keep your friends close and your variables closer

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    26 Jan, 2019

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    Glen Young

    Back in the day, I used to have this habit of declaring all of my variables at the top of the file. My thinking at the time was it would keep everything organised so if I needed to jump to one I’d…

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  • How to function correctly

    How to function correctly

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    24 Jan, 2019

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    Glen Young

    Coding is a fairly amazing thing to be able to do. There are effectively no limits to what can be done when you’re more or less writing the universe from scratch. Having said that if Spider-Man movies have taught us anything (and…

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  • Simplify conditional statements

    Simplify conditional statements

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    23 Jan, 2019

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    Glen Young

    Consider the following code: Looks good right? It’s logical and easy to understand, just your standard if statement. All true, but over the course of an entire project you’ll make a lot of considtional statements like this and using 5 lines of…

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  • Avoid abbreviating variables

    Avoid abbreviating variables

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    22 Jan, 2019

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    Glen Young

    Do you know what’s super annoying when reading someone else code? Abbreviated variable or function names. Until late 2017 I hadn’t done any coding in years so I was rusty as all hell, and truthfully I still am. One thing I noticed…

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  • iPad Pro

    iPad Pro

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    25 Nov, 2018

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    Glen Young

    I’ve been really loving working on my 10.5-inch iPad Pro since I got it around a year ago. Recently the newer, fancier 11-inch pro came out and as much as I lust after the new design I’ve decided not to upgrade this…

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  • Running lessons​

    Running lessons​

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    12 Nov, 2018

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    Glen Young

    Over the past few years, I’ve had an on and off relationship with running. I’m not sure I’d go as far as saying “I’m a runner”, but I have run a few half marathons and had periods of time where I’d run…

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  • Oh yeah!

    Oh yeah!

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    29 Sep, 2018

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    Glen Young

    Hey, so in case you haven’t heard already the Oculus Quest is a thing. It’s been a long time coming but we finally have proper PC free VR. I’m not going to go into any real detail about it other than to…

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  • Making a podcast

    Making a podcast

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    4 Jul, 2018

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    Glen Young

    News flash, I’m working on a podcast. Maybe even more than one. I’ve always loved podcasts and have been listening to them for as long as I can remember. I’ve been kicking around the idea of creating my own show for years,…

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