Larry Smithmier

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bio	website	Microsoft.productiveedge.com
	location	Norfolk, VA
	age	46
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I am a programmer. I am a software architect. I am a father.

C# and SQL are my languages of choice. I prefer Stored Procedures, compile time over runtime errors, tight and clean over multifunctional, and finally Coke over Pepsi.

I currently work for Amerigroup (RealSolutions) and am doing Windows Phone development in my spare time.

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Mar 6	comment	Need guidelines for studying Game Development Please describe the job that you are wanting to get. Do you want to be a coder in a big shop, join/start an indie-company? Math is always good, as is a good grounding in art theory.
Nov 12	comment	How do we attract more developers and other Volunteers to our Open Source MMO Emulation Project? Duplicate of "Finding other programmers to help on a project" gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/2791/… ?
Sep 18	comment	Finding other programmers to help on a project Any luck getting started? It has been over a month and I was wondering how your project was progressing.
Sep 18	comment	How can I get into the educational market? Take a look at a SlashDot article from today on Learning By Playing that might have some good links for you: news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/18/1353218/Learning-By-Playing
Aug 19	comment	What happened to the Journal of Game Development? Any word on what happened to it? Did you get a chance to talk to your instructor?
Aug 17	comment	Finding other programmers to help on a project odesk.com and elance.com are also pretty good. We got several writers/copy editors for some of our site content through oDesk and 1 was awesome, 2 were good, and 1 was wretched. We started with 4 small tasks and build up until we have the awesome one working 1/2 time for us now.
Aug 14	comment	Clickable hex grid in c#.net +1 for a blast from the past. I remember looking at those tutorials back in the late 90s. Great link!
Aug 14	comment	How do I get into Facebook game development? +1 on the Graph API, but that is related to the environment your game will live in more than the game itself.
Aug 14	comment	Can I develop Linux + Windows games using C#, .NET and OpenGL? .NET is not the same as the .NET Framework. If you will edit your answer above to match the title of the Wikipedia entry you reference, and state that the full .NET Framework is not supported except on Windows, then I will gladly agree with you because you are correct. But ".NET is Windows specific." is incorrect.
Aug 14	comment	What happened to the Journal of Game Development? When you talk to him, you might also mention that the personal page pointed to in his bio (rmichaelyoung.com) doesn't exist anymore either.
Aug 14	comment	Can I develop Linux + Windows games using C#, .NET and OpenGL? Sorry, but Mono is .NET and not Windows specific. From their front page: Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. mono-project.com/Main_Page
Aug 11	comment	Has anyone used MonoTouch for a game? Yep, that is one of the reasons I have shied away as well. But the though of a triple is making me consider it again. The Mono project states: As MonoTouch does not hide native APIs and is not an abstraction layer, we continue to believe that MonoTouch conforms to the spirit and intent of the terms spelled out in the developer agreement.
Jul 16	comment	What middle tier and backend libraries exist for handling player matching and out of game information? Cool toolset. So you are using libcurl to post back a results file and a custom Django application to interpret and present?
Jul 15	comment	Where can I find free music for my game? extremely nice music! thanks for the link.
Jul 15	comment	What middle tier and backend libraries exist for handling player matching and out of game information? Ok, I am now officially hooked again. In an effort to give something back, I want to find places I can leverage my current skill-set to help the community.