Piece of advice for people who don’t understand search engines: if you’re going to make a mass-market product (like a Wiki), then do NOT make the standard setup – for every customer! – automatically include a link on *every page* that goes back to the front page of the installed software, but which has the [...]
3 Comments » (and because it’s not going to happen with FF, it’s something that Web 2.0 devs have to consider providing themselves) “Show CPU usage and memory usage for each open window / tab”
Question someone asked on LinkedIn recently. I thought it was an interesting question, so cross-posting my answer here. Question: What are the key traits, skills, and level of experience do you look for when hiring a Design Director, Creative Director, or Executive Creative Officer for your video game studio or media development firm? My Answer: [...]
a.k.a. What is a game designer anyway? And how do I become one? This has sat in my drafts folder for more than 6 months, so I’m going to just post it now, despite its incompleteness (sheesh. The whole point of starting a blog was so that I could post half-written articles and not sit [...]
This is a really simple thing, and you only do it once per site, but it’s really easy to do when you know how, and a pain in the ass when you don’t, if you end up being fooled into using modRewrite or similar. A couple of people I spoke to recently hadn’t been doing [...]
Next up, in my continuing look at sign-up processes (trying to get MMO companies to ALLOW you to PAY for their products…) for MMO games: Nexon, and their free dance game, “Audition”.
Site was down, when I looked at the error logs I had this deeply unhelpful message: seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process Some googling failed to turn up anything official from Apache that was particularly helpful, but I did find reports of other people having the same problem, and I’m [...]
Sexy, sleek, gorgeous. An object of lust and desire. ONLY ONE FRICKIN USB PORT YOU MUST BE CRAZY !!!11!!1! Cursed to run OS X. Runs Windows XP fine *and* it’s a Mac. The world’s lightest, thinnest laptop. But … what’s it *really* like, for normal people – is a Macbook Air the right laptop for [...]
Yup, I’m no longer working for NCsoft, I’ve started an indefinite sabbatical. If you’ve been in touch with me on the work address, you should re-route your emails appropriately (if you didn’t get a handover email from me with new contacts in NCsoft, email my personal address and I’ll try and point you in the [...]
Triple-finger drag == “move current window around on the screen”. That would fix *so much* despite being such a tiny tiny feature. Of course, it also needs for OS X to gain some basic features to bring it kicking and dragging into the 21st Century (I sometimes wonder how many people at Apple actually a) [...]
“we’re going to dig more into comparison ranking systems, by focusing on competitive rankings and looking more in depth at ELO Chess Ranking System and the other systems that we briefly mentioned previously. Our goal is to explicate these systems, to better address their flaws, to begin detailing the purposes of ranking systems, and to [...]
Kongregate, in detail I’d been meaning to write this up for a while. It’s something I’ve said verbally enough times now that I’d rather write it up and send people a URL :). A lot of people underestimate Kong (www.kongregate.com), including, I suspect, many people in the games industry. IMHO, even if you know nothing [...]
Yahoo recently posted a page listing and describing eight different design patterns for a reputation (or ranking, or achievement) system for a community – where community could be a web community, the players of a particular game, etc. For a long time now, I’ve been meaning to write a post on this stuff, and this [...]
Or so this blog on security says. “Some experts claim that two-factor authentication won’t work. They are wrong, of course.” The expert linked to is Bruce Schneier, and the main attack he points out that isn’t affected by TFS is … fake website asking for your credentials. Funny. That was one of the main ways [...]
