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August 28, 2010 0

Spur Gastropub in Seattle

By Josh Petrie in Blog

Spur is a small-ish gastropub in Belltown run by acclaimed chefs Brian McCracken and Dana Tough. Their focus is “New American” cuisine, and their lineup shifts every month or so, according to what is seasonally available. The restaurant’s blog posts the changes to the menu as they happen; it’s a bit tricky to find out [...]

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August 27, 2010 2

Per-Project Code Formatting in Visual Studio

By Josh Petrie in Blog

Consistency is the principle benefit of having a documented coding style. The details of the style itself are usually not terribly relevant. If you are a developer who works on multiple projects, or even one who just dabbles at home after work, you probably have to cope with at least two different coding styles. Visual [...]

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August 11, 2010 0

Nystrom’s Programming Patterns

By Josh Petrie in Blog

I came across Robert Nystrom’s Game Programming Patterns site a little while back; a link to it has been sitting in my Instapaper queue for a while now, accompanied by a note that says I should write something about it. The site is the online counterpart to a book that Nystrom, a lead engineer at [...]

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August 5, 2010 0

Fever: A Novel RSS Reader

By Josh Petrie in Blog

Fever is a unique RSS reader that tries to alleviate the psychological pressure of unread counts and the grind of paging through essentially-duplicate stories from multiple feeds by performing some sort of analysis on the items in your feeds and bubbling the ‘hot’ content to the top. I’ve been using it for a week or [...]

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