Dungeon Master Skills You Can Bring to Work #6 – Teamwork

Prestidigitation is a low-level spell in Dungeons & Dragons that allows the caster to perform a subset of minor effects, such as lighting a single candle or cleaning a square foot of a piece of clothing. It’s a spell that most magic-casting classes can learn, but it has few benefits in battle. One of my […]

Dungeon Master Skills You Can Bring to Work #5 – Adaptation

Things don’t always go the way you expect them to go. Sometimes, you have to improvise. You roll with new information and new events as they unfold. Dungeons & Dragons actively invites uncertainty with the randomized dice-based system. Because of this, I know that it’s impossible to plan everything. Instead, I have to rely on […]

Dungeon Master Skills You Can Bring to Work #4 – Communication

Dungeons & Dragons is a game that is almost entirely based in oral storytelling. From my players explaining what they want to do in a battle to my role as the Dungeon Master (DM) describing the nefarious villain, words are the foundation of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. That’s why communication is key. We need […]

Dungeon Master Skills You Can Bring to Work #3 – Preparation

A few weeks ago, I was involved in a D&D game where my players had just infiltrated the temple of a cult that they were investigating. They knew their disguises might not fool every cultist they passed, and everyone felt tense. Huddled together and sneaking along the passageways, they found a door and tentatively opened […]

Dungeon Master Skills You Can Bring to Work #2 – Deliberation

Solid decision-making is a valuable skill in any context, but it’s an area where I’ve really grown since I started leading my D&D friends on adventures that require a consensus on a course of direction.

Dungeon Master Skills You Can Bring to Work #1 – Inclusion

In my free time, I like to play Dungeons and Dragons with a group of friends. It’s a fun way to keep in contact with friends who don’t live near me. It gives us a space to create our own adventures. It’s great for de-stressing, exercising our creative energies, and just having fun together. But […]

Using SkiaSharp to Create an Inner Shadow in Xamarin.Forms

I’m currently working on a project that uses Xamarin.Forms, and the other day I started a story to implement some design on a multi-selection list in our mobile application. The design added checkboxes to each cell in the list, and each checkbox has a subtle inner shadow. This is a common design convention–so common that […]

Getting into Open-Source Projects: Three Ways to Contribute

If you’re a developer, you’re probably aware of the benefits of open-source technology (software that’s licensed, publicly posted, and free for developers to use and contribute to). One of the big ideas in the open-source community is that it’s good for all developers to give back. In return for using software that others spent time […]

Spinning Up in CMock

I recently started on a large project that utilizes the powerful CMock mocking library in its testing. I tried to find some simple tutorials to get a better understanding of this library. But though there’s a lot of helpful documentation on CMock, I found little advice on getting to know it in general.

Getting into Test-Driven Development: Six Things a Developer Needs to Know

Having a hard time sorting through the vast array of books, talks, blog posts, contradictory advice, and academic writing about Test-Driven Development? I’ve spent the last quarter wading through resources on TDD, and I’ve summarized the most important things any new TDD developer should know into these six areas.

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By: Joanie Davis

Author: Joanie Davis