Philippe Vaillancourt

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My name is Philippe Vaillancourt. I'm a software developer who leverages his coding skills and background in real estate to solve customers' problems. I'm based in Montreal, Canada. It's nice to meet you.

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Balancing Form and Function: What Tiny Glade Teaches Us

Balancing Form and Function: What Tiny Glade Teaches Us

Discover Tiny Glade, a whimsical sandbox game that prioritizes form and function. Build castles and cottages with intuitive, delightful interactions. Tiny Glade's user-friendly design challenges the software industry's focus on function over form, proving that great UX can drive commercial success.

Quick and easy local web server

Quick and easy local web server

Best thing I learned this week. Wanna quickly serve some static website? If you've go Python 3 installed on your machine just run the following command in the same folder as your index.html

Break out command object

Break out command object

Long functions are hard to work with. They are often contained in large classes that have many dependencies. The work that it takes to bring such functions and classes into a test harness is often significant. The Break Out Command Object refactoring technique can help with that.

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