Daemons, also known as background applications or services, are applications that are launched at device startup and do not feature a UI or require other direct user input. They perform a defined operation and are usually launched at predefined times or in response to events on the device. Common usages for daemons include e-mail handler applications and monitoring tools, among others.

I was trying to communicate to management that server developers have different priorities than game developers. As a means to show the importance of laying in administrative infrastructure, and other software engineering "overhead", I put this list together. Hope it helps you to think about making the right investment in making the system sustainable, and make those points to the powers that be.

I'm primarily a server programmer, but I still end up doing UI work every once in a while, and that's been true for the majority of the last three weeks. Not being an experienced old hand at UI design, I find myself falling back on first principles and decade-old books. I'm mostly happy with the results, but the code that results in implementing the interface... well, it's not the kind of code that I like to write.