“Valve co-founder Gabe Newell announced during a DICE keynote today that last weekend’s half-price sale of Left 4 Dead resulted in a 3000% increase in sales of the game, posting overall sales (in dollar amount) that beat the title’s original launch performance.”
I found this today, which some may find useful. It provides prepackaged Eclipse distributions for certain tasks, all ready to go.
http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html
For this upcoming quarter our instructor has slated a colleague and I to develop a web application in PHP using a MSSQL database, seperate from the standard student projects. In preparation for this, I decided to set up a development box so we could get started early. It was completely unnecessary for us to get [...]
I’ve spent the past couple days working towards getting a common development environment set up, so that I don’t have to use different IDE’s and tools. I’m trying to get everything situated, since Winter quarter is likely to be one of the most programming intensive quarters that I’ve had. I want to be prepared, so [...]
You may notice things appear differently. Comments appreciated…
In the tradition, here are some random good links I found this week:
This is really quite neat:
http://www.wordle.net –> see mine here
Awesome case mods:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/06/cool-computer-case-mods.html
The amount of win in this video is indescribable:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349
Also, I read Cringley religiously, and you should to, and here’s a reminder why:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081107_005504.html
It’s kind of a shotgun approach to a title, but the title fits the blog post content well.
Today I received confirmation that I’ll be doing an internship for a local Spokane company. As an part-time intern, I will be learning ASP.NET, which is really nice. ASP.NET will round out start some of my Microsoft programming [...]
I recently reflected several differences in my knowledge:
My desire to know everything about computers, networks, and security, and what I actually know
In that context, what X is needed to know before learning Y
I want to know all there is to know in these areas, and in thinking about this desire, I realize that there are [...]
So there are a lot of triple-boot tutorials available on the net (most noteably ubuntu’s wiki), and they do a really good job of addressing most details. However, there is one snag that is missing from all of these tutorials, and it can trip up people if you don’t know what it means or how [...]