Game jams are events I do really enjoy. I’m not a professional game developer, but they tend to push my programming knowledge, development workflow and problem solving skills through an intense test. Last week, I registered for 8 Bit to Infinity’s Text Only Jam, but failed to submit a game before the deadline. In this post I’m gonna share with you the lessons I’ve drawn from this experience.
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Category: Experience report
Been there, done that… I narrate some of my experience and try to have some reflection on it.
Avoid these pitfalls during your next game jam
WordPress Security : An open talk with Julio Potier
During the Paris WordCamp 2019, there was lots of great talks. Although you will be able to watch those again on wordpress.tv, there was also some more informal talks, in which participants seated in sofas and on chairs around low table and discussed predefined topics, supported by a coordinator.
I want to report to you one of these open talks, as I found the information exposed could be pretty useful. It was about WordPress security, and our coordinator was Julio Potier, founder of the security plugin SecuPress, director of the WPFR organization, and WordPress consultant for years (between other roles…). Needless to say, that we all had lots of question to ask him.
(more…)Half a year a bricodeur
For about 6 months now, I’ve been teaching code to beginners along with a non-profit organization named Les Bricodeurs (in French, it’s a mash-up word of ‘tinkerer’ and ‘coder’). I won’t go into detail for every activity this organization is engaged in, but in a bulk: teaching kids to program bots, organizing talks about digital medias and citizenship, preparing a yearly hackathon, and the list goes on with each of our members’ initiatives.
(more…)Bootcamp : two years after
I know there are many developers out there that have started their career by what we call a bootcamp, I’m one of them.
Am I the typical one? Is there such a thing as a “typical” bootcamp developer? All I can do here, is talk about my experience. I’ll start by giving you some details so you may have a better understand of my point of view (besides, we all know that development is in the details, right?).
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