Entries from April 2008

Tracking site user paths with WassUp

Date April 30, 2008

While I try not to get carried away, I can’t help but try to find every possible statistical tool to help me grow both in terms of managing the company along with what kind of market is hitting the site.
With the advent of the recent 2.5.x build of WordPress, the design of the software is [...]

Golf clap for the IGN tards and their GTA trailer

Date April 29, 2008

Knowing that the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV would be under intense scrutiny from all sides of the lovers and haters of video gaming, IGN thought it would be great to put together “Ladies of Liberty City”
Well good job IGN *golf clap*
While anyone could have cut the material together, it was kind of [...]

Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) goes vBulletin

Date April 28, 2008

For those out there in the ’sphere not a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP), they’ve just migrated their current member discussion areas to a web-frontend provided by vBulletin.
ASP members can hit it here.
While most readers out there who are accustomed to some kind of pretty web front end for their discussions, the [...]

LWJGL 2.0 Beta 1 released!

Date April 23, 2008

The official post from the LWJGL forums is available here.

LWJGL 2.0 changes
Major changes
* fmod and devil removed
* dropped support for windows 9x
* glu moved to lwjgl_util
* glu now uses buffers instead of arrays
* New Display.setParent() feature allows you to embed the Display into an existing AWT canvas.
For [...]

The Last Lecture

Date April 11, 2008

Randy Pausch, father of 3 and a Professor at Carnegie Mellon was diagnosed with a terminal pancreatic cancer, and gave his “last lecture” before leaving his duties at the school to spend his time enjoying life and family on Sept. 18th, 2007.
The lecture is an excellent presentation on following your childhood dreams and how important [...]

What happens with my GFW subscription?

Date April 10, 2008

One of the more memorable quotes from Ghostbusters was Egon Spengler’s comment “Print is dead.”
While in the context it was made more to perhaps attempt to discontinue being quizzed by the receptionist Jeneane, it was a mildly profound statement.
Fast forward to the announcement today/yesterday about the decision by Ziff-Davis to terminate CGW in print form. [...]

BBC reports brain wasting preventable via daily “hot coffee”!

Date April 3, 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7326839.stm
(yes I was excited as well, until I realized it was about coffee)
Well in the never-ending struggles of the “caffeine” vs. “non-caffeine” camps, the scientists involved in this study found that a daily dose of caffeine created a positive health experience for the animals they tested. They went as far as to say that a [...]

RPG Maker VX now available!

Date April 1, 2008

http://tkool.jp/products/rpgvx/eng/index.html
In the past few years there’s been a bit of a “revival” of RPG games created by Indie game companies, and one of the more popular “engines” that has been used quite successfully, is the RPG Maker XP product.
Aveyond and Aveyond2 created by Amaranth Games are 2 such excellent examples of using RPG Maker [...]

Site upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and stats tracker

Date April 1, 2008

Still getting used to the boatload of new features and functionality available in WordPress 2.5,
but at least the site navigation / layout didn’t seem to be clobbered during the upgrade process..
Found this helpful link about 2.5.
While going through the 2.5 beta information a week or so ago, I tripped upon the Stats feature which [...]