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Guido Henkel

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Based in Southern California, Guido Henkel has been a computer game designer and interactive fiction writer for over 25 years before he decided to try his hand at traditional novelized fiction.

Among the many award-winning games he's worked on as the "Realms of Arkania" series which was the official adaptation of the highly successful German pen&paper role-playing game series "Das Schwarze Auge." However, he has also worked on titles such as "Fallout 2" and "Planescape: Torment," a game based in one of the more extreme and mature AD&D universes.

Guido Henkel is the creator of the gothic horror dime novel series "Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter," which he not only writes but also publishes. ...more

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Zen of Defensive Programming: A word about constants

It is time to tackle one of the key subjects of defensive coding practices—the use of constants.

Why so many programmers ignore this important language feature, I am not sure, particularly in Java, C, and C++. Python makes it a little harder to use because the language lacks intrinsic support for constants, but with a simple-work around, Python can also create pseudo-constant values.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 656 ratings · 151 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	Demon's Night (Jason Dark, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zen of eBook Formatting: A Step-by-step Guide To Format eBooks for Kindle and EPUB 4.38 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jason Dark Supernatural Mystery Collection 1 3.57 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Theater of Vampires (Jason Dark #2) 3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghosts Templar (Jason Dark #3) 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heavens on Fire (Jason Dark #4) 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood Witch (Jason Dark #8) 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curse of Kali (Jason Dark #10) 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terrorlord (Jason Dark #9) 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zen of eBook Marketing: An Overview of the Marketing Tools That Can Help Make your Book a Success 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Oct 21, 2012 08:05PM

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Nice to meet you Guido!

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message 1: by Emily

Mar 16, 2011 04:26PM

Hey Guido,
Thanks for the friendship. It looks like you do a lot of amazing work in more than just writing. Very excited to get to know more.

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