Just in case you're curious, I'm still hacking on Veure, though the last month has kept me busy on a bunch of other things (our daughter just started school, so that's a big one!)

I've been building so much of the infrastructure that you might be surprised to realize that I've only just gotten around to being able to equip weapons and armor:

My last entry gives some hints on how this works.

The other developer has been working on the cockpit view. If you travel from system to system in your own ship, the experience should be different than if you take public shuttles. I haven't actually seen his work yet, so no screenshot on that one.

Update: OK, I have some of the initial screenshots for the cockpit work. They look great, but not sharing until some things are settled.

I think I'm on the verge of drinking the Cucumber flavored Kool-Aid, which is odd because I've never done Behavior Driven Development (BDD) before. If you've followed my blogs over the years, you know that I am happy to investigate new trends, but at the same time I'm deeply, deeply suspicious of them. BDD has been one of those "fads" that I've been suspicious of, but I think I've changed my mind. What follows is why.

I've been rather quiet lately because I'm busy, busy, busy. Part of this is contract work for a company (amongst other things, I've been doing building sqitch setup for them), and part of this is new research into Agile. Today I wrote a quick blog post explaining one of my pet peeves about Agile: people say it's not a silver bullet, but they don't say why. I briefly explain when you should and should not use Agile.

By now I'm sure that many of you have read about the research which claims that people aren't smart enough for Democracy to flourish. This was big news and made the rounds (including here on Reddit). The main researchers listed were Dunning and Kruger and I don't think anyone disputes their credentials.

Except that this is a science article, not a link to the actual research. In particular, I was intrigued by this by a reference to a software simulation validating their results. That piqued my curiosity.