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DevCorner: Creating a Kanban Game for learning purposes

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Recently, TechSmith hosted a Macomb Community College class. They were interested in learning the Kanban practices used by one of our development units. Being on the committee, I volunteered to develop an activity demonstrating the lifecycle of a Kanban card. If Angry Birds has taught us anything, it's that everyone loves a good game. So I decided to try and make a Kanban game. I think it worked out fairly well, and I'm hopeful it can be used again as a tool to introduce people to Kanban. The Feature I Continue reading

Dev Corner – Decltype Keyword

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// The keyword decltype is new in Visual Studio 2010 and is available as well in GCC C++.  It is pretty simple you can get a type out of an expression.  I see it used most in cases where you don't want to supply a typedef but would like to use the type of an existing variable; hopefully this example will help illustrate: struct A { int m_n; }; int main() { A a = {4}; decltype(a.m_n) n = 6; //n in the same as A::m_n which in an int a.m_n = n; return 0; } So with Continue reading

Interview With a Lead Developer: Paul Middlin

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Who are you, and what do you do? Paul Middlin, Lead Developer on Camtasia:mac How did you find out about TechSmith? Mike Malinak had found the company in 2002, while we were in grad school. Said it was a fantastic place. There were about 40 people here at the time. At first I took his ravings with a grain of salt, but when Tony Lambert was equally impressed, I sought out an interview! What do you like most about working at TechSmith? We really do have an entire company focused on Continue reading

Interview With a Lead Developer: Jim Dusseau

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Who are you, and what do you do? Jim Dusseau. I'm a lead developer currently working on Camtasia Relay. I spent the last few months helping out the Coach's Eye team. How did you find out about TechSmith? My manager at my previous company knew I really wanted to develop for the Mac platform. He was a Camtasia Studio user, found out about a mac development position with TechSmith, and let me know about it. What do you like most about working at TechSmith? I think great companies are Continue reading

Interview With a Lead Developer: Justin Welsch

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Who are you, and what do you do? Justin Welsch Lead Developer for Shared Code/Recorder SDK/Anti-Piracy How did you find out about TechSmith? I saw TechSmith on Monster.com way back in 2001. I called the number listed and spoke to Bill Hamilton himself. What do you like most about working at TechSmith? I like that TechSmith is a relatively small company (or has a small company feel) that has many people who are passionate about what they work on. I have also enjoyed watching it grow Continue reading

Dev Corner – Regular Expressions for Improved Productivity

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If you're a developer, the term "regular expression" should at least sound familiar.  But, if you've never had to write any code that made use of them (i.e. code in a scripting language), you may not know how to write/use regular expressions. And, if you're like I was, that doesn't bother you. After all, regular expressions can get confusing and complicated very quickly. So, it's probably better to just leave them alone until you need them for some code, right? Sure, maybe. But consider this: Continue reading

Dev Corner – Magic Numbers In Designing

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Everyone should know what I mean by Magic Numbers. Those no named numbers in code that live just to make you scratch your head and scream. I know I've come to despise seeing numbers without a variable name. In XAML (and other interface languages) it seems to be easy to forget those simple rules for naming our values and to justify just why you set the margin to 4 vs 7 (Jing's standard margin is 7). It's this reason that I took some time to see how we could improve the readability of numbers in Continue reading