This is a pretty interesting video by the CTO of DevExpress, Julian Bucknall. It’s titled “What Pac-Man can tell us about Object-Oriented Programming“, but the core lesson here has nothing to do with Object-Oriented programming at all. More to the point, it’s a great story about solving a problem in a very different way than what you might be accustom or trained to.

Review your code from time to time. Look back at something you wrote that was particularly prickly. Is there a more innovative way? This kind of challenge is the sort of thing that really keeps me interested in development, and I don’t do it nearly enough. It’s always fascinating to hear these stories too…