My name is Philip Ludington. I’m a .Net developer, with a little over ten year of experience. I’ve worked with a lot of technologies including C++, C# and SilverLight. I currently live and am employed in Northern Virginia. I love computers and programming. Most of my hobbies involve one or both. I spend a ridiculous amount of my spare time playing computer games, and find myself particularly drawn to strategy games. Toying around with game development is a natural out growth of all this. I regularly participate in
Ludum Dares, which are 48 hour game development contests. My best game comes from LD#12, the theme was 'The Tower' and I built a SilverLight 2.0 physics game called
Stacker. Last fall I built a small computer game portal called
Mr. Phil Games.
I am attending the
Devscovery conference in Redmond, WA this week. On Tuesday,
Scott Hanselman gave the key note address kicking off the conference. His topic was about social networking and how it can be used to be a better developer. He made the point that as developers we should all have a technical blog. Allowing us to manage and promote our personal brand. Giving us the opportunity to network with other professionals online and possibly giving us access to opportunities. It was convincing enough that I am here.
I’d expect to post pretty code heavy topics. It amazes me how often I search for help and don’t find anything helpful. Maybe, I can help lower the count on hopeless cases a little. I’m not what you would call a strong writer, so expect a lot of misspellings and passive voice. I only mention passive voice because I know you aren’t supposed to use it, but it is a concept I don’t full understand. Maybe a helpful commenter can give me/us a little cheat sheet?
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