I meant to keep a day-to-day entries but we have been so busy I have not had time (and it IS vacation!). The plane-ride to San Diego was nice and smooth – the only downside being that I had to sit next to a guy with awful breath. Really, it …
So Sergio showed me a new world of fun in a game called SketchFighter and it rocks! It was made by the old-skewl Mac bawlers, Ambroshia Software. The same guys that made Maelstrom for those that remember that game. The cool thing about SketchFigher is that it uses stylized graphics …
So I have mentioned the BLOB Streaming Project quite a lot lately, and for good reason! Paul has recently released an alpha version of the engine itself, called MyBS. I took some time last weekend to benchmark it’s performance and thought I would share my result. Keep in mind, these …
I have decided to PHPify the RSS feed. It makes things simpler and the performance hit for doing so is likely going to be small (since all the data will be cached anyway). I did this because it was easier to allow filtering of specific categories. This works now, but …
Whoops. Well more bugs with the ShoutBox not wrapping words correctly and spewing out ugly HTML. Should be fixed now. Hopefully for good… :)
Having gotten my feet with in regards to BLOBs while developing StuffDawg, I am starting to really see why some many people get eaten by the BLOB (and get spit out too!). The problem, at least that I have found, with BLOBs is that they do not seem to scale …
So a while ago I added some PHP kung-fu to make downloads easier to track. Today I updated it to hopefully work better for people on slower connections or with non-standard configurations. It works like most sites out there where it loads a page that contains a direct link if …
So apparently my last round of securing the website from spammers made things a bit too restrictive and actually prevented people from creating accounts. Ouch. Well, I seem to have fixed things. My apologizes for the one person I noticed in my logs that tried to register and didn’t :) …
I released a new version of my new stuff tracking application, called StuffDawg and thought I would give it a small plug on my blog. What is it? Well, you know how all the manuals of your somewhat expensive material possessions all say to write down the serial number of …