Tag Archive 'experience'

Many concepts look obvious because they are used often, not because they are really simple. Small quantities that we encounter all the time in most projects, such as date, time, price, quantity of items, a min and a max… hardly are a subject of interest from developers « as it is obvious that we can represent [...]

Geometric Rhythm Machine

In the post “Playing with laser beams to create very simple rhythms” I explained a theoretical approach that I want to materialize into an instrument. The idea is to create complex rhythms by combining several times the same rhythmic patterns, but each time with some variation compared to the original pattern. Several possible variations (or [...]

I’m a big fan of design patterns, they do make my work easier, more explicit, more maintenable and also more enjoyable; however I’m surprised that not everyone knows them and actually uses them. What’s wrong with design patterns ? Some facts: they are difficult to learn and to teach, it is nearly impossible to teach [...]