Reprocessed, by Matt Patterson

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January 2010

20.1.2010

Mirror's Edge, and not breaking my TV

I guess there were two things I was hoping for when I sat down to play [Mirror's Edge] [1], one being [Jet Set Radio Future] [2], and the other being the original [Prince of Persia reboot Sands of Time] [3]. In both titles moving was a joy: fluid, and well directed. Even if you didn't know exactly where to go when you started moving, if you could read the architecture of the levels, and had the basic control competencies down, you could string move after move together and flow through the environment. The grace and agility of the Prince, in an environment with the scale and affordances of JSRF? In first-person? That's a tantalising prospect.

25.1.2010

Easy Rails CI with Hudson

For a long time I've thought that it would be a good idea to have a Continuous Integration server that could run all the tests for a project on checkin to source control. Until I started making use of Cucumber I didn't really have a full test run that took long enough to make buying a separate CI server feel more like an investment than an indulgence.

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