The Blog: February 2011

Traditionally, leaderboards rank players using one criteria, e.g. XP, kills, etc. What if you wanted to retrieve information from a leaderboard that combined more than one criteria? I’m going to show you how to do that.

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I have been called many things in my life. Most recently, some have called me a “successful entrepreneur.” I am introduced to people as the CEO of a “successful business,” or prompted to tell classes of my “success story.” But what is success?

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Entrepreneurs often ask me what the biggest factor was in our success. They want to know exactly what we did and how we did it so that they can duplicate that success. The truth is that there isn’t one thing, and there never is. You can never attribute the success of a multi-year, multi-person venture down to exactly one thing. However, there are factors that can help.

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Everyone knows code reviews can be awesome. They can be agile, smart and effective, or they can be shallow and pedantic. They can be an hour-long laser-focused meeting on the points that matter, or a rambling mess of code reading to sleepy co-workers desperate for some cookies and a nap. I’m on the team that builds backend services for the latest and greatest games; we take code reviews very seriously, and we look forward to them. So how do we go about it?

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