Incorrigible Imaginings – Page 3 – A trove of medium-sized writings.

Heroes of the Storm – Dragon Shire Origin Story

Published by Alan Alpert on 2015-04-05

At the start of this year I was really enjoying Heroes of the Storm, a new DotA-clone by Blizzard Entertainment. I was even going to write a review before the beta came out, but then the beta re-worked my favorite hero and I lost interest (even though he was too powerful, so he deserved it). Before I started drafting the review though, I wrote some HotS fan-fic on a flight somewhere. Mostly because of the challenge, this isn’t a deep and lore-driven world like the three it’s based on. But I overcame that, to write this backstory for the map “Dragon Shire”.

Orthodox and Reformed Scrum, a Retrospective

Published by Alan Alpert on 2014-09-08

I have recently been doing a lot of Scrum process at work. Enough to make me feel entitled to critique it¹. I figure that so long as we’re being assessed on our implementation of the Scrum process, I should be able to assess Scrum on its implementation of a software process. Note that I have already discussed the term “user story”. So I’m going to try something different today, and actually discuss salient conceptual points. Eventually.

The Qt/QML User Story Redux

Published by Alan Alpert on 2013-06-22

A while ago I posted one version of a QML user story. But that term is quite vague, and so here’s the other ‘user story’ which came to mind. Since it uses APIs new in 5.1, it was delayed to allow those APIs to stabilize.

Shards of (Google) Glass

Published by Alan Alpert on 2013-06-15

Responding to a Penny Arcade strip, I’m a little peeved at how humanity can’t seem to accept improvements.

“Were it not for the Arbiter’s counsel, I would have [Google] glassed your entire planet!” –Rtas ‘Vadum of the Covenant

The Qt/QML User Story

Published by Alan Alpert on 2013-02-22

At Tue Apr 17 04:09:07 CEST 2012 Alan Alpert started a flamewar about QML. Whoops. But the thread did reach an appropriate conclusion as to where the rants should go; put it on an aggregated blog. Since I forgot to do that back then, here’s an expanded version of the essay now. The content is still accurate, but I’ve added two more paragraphs on the end to elucidate it further.

Cross-Platform QML

Published by Alan Alpert on 2013-01-08

I’ve been thinking a lot about cross-platform QML recently, and I’m about to email the dev list with a suggestion. But the conceptual background essay is here instead of in the mail this time. Hopefully this will help better organize the information – it certainly allowed me to go into much greater depth on the wider issue 🙂 .

Qt 5 unleashes a flood… of particles.

Published by Alan Alpert on 2013-01-05

Hooray, Qt5 is out! One of the new features I’m most excited about is the particle system, which replaces the old and simple labs one (easy porting guide here). What I’m really excited about though is seeing what people come up with when using it.

I never meta-discussion about QML I didn’t like

Published by Alan Alpert on 2012-12-13

This week I started eight threads on the Qt dev mailing list, and it’s not because I like writing essays. This blog post is because I like writing essays. I just have a lot to talk about, and in classic meta-cognition style I’d like to talk a lot about why I’m talking a lot.

QmlComms Module

Published by Alan Alpert on 2012-11-05

I wrote a chat client!

A Straw-Woman Argument

Published by Alan Alpert on 2012-10-28

I strongly support gender equality, but it bugs me that sometimes modern gender equality is mis-interpreted as pro-woman. Political correctness also bugs me, particularly when people try to rewrite the English language because some words or expressions might be deemed offensive. Leaving aside for a moment that being offended is a state of mind in the reader, a language is not suitably expressive if it cannot provoke an emotional response (including offending people). I thus will try to provoke an emotional response with this short speech, modeled as being by and for some of the people who bug me in a non-insectoid way.

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