April 28th, 2009 by adam
Introduction
I travel to the USA frequently, both for conferences and for business/meetings. On each occasion, I spend anything from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand (sometimes the hotels are paid in dollars, sometimes part of the airfares, plus all the spending for the duration of the visit).
Over the years, I occasionally received payment [...]
April 26th, 2009 by adam
…but I’m only just finally recovering from the second chest infection + lost voice from GDC.
Also, if you were expecting an email from me at any point in the past 6 weeks and haven’t received it yet, that’s why.
April 24th, 2009 by adam
The title says it all really; for whatever reason, the Thunderbird developers appear not to have tested TB on OS X. So much of the basic functionality doesn’t work in the latest beta – this isn’t even alpha-quality code (on OS X). I’m sure it works fine on Windows (or else you’d have thousands of [...]
April 21st, 2009 by adam
Good
You offer your enterprise software for $5 (renewable!) for a couple of days
Bad
Your website is so poor it is hard-coded to reject valid email addresses
Stupid
You’ve added an error message that explains you “are sorry” for the fact that it’s rejecting valid email addresses, and that you intend to “fix this soon”.
Result
You’ve got an extra licensee [...]
April 12th, 2009 by adam
This talk was all about a theory of innovation/finding new markets known as Blue Ocean Strategy, from a book published in 2005. I first came across this book/theory when I joined NCsoft a few years ago (apparently, the CEO and board in Korea were very keen on it), which is quite ironic given NCsoft’s international [...]
April 9th, 2009 by adam
Wifi and internet at all is a priviledge – but Free Wifi is something that in our modern society, and the society we’re set to become, needs to be treated as a right. When I started writing this, I was looking at the benefits we have yet to see (ubiquitous free wifi); in the week [...]
April 6th, 2009 by adam
The furore[link] over the IGDA’s failure[link] to live up to it’s own precepts continues to snowball[link] [link] (as I suggested it would, if the IGDA Board didn’t ‘fess up and take a stand[link] against the unethical practices they were being implicated in).
(I’ll do a summary later this week; personally I’m aware of 6 different unique [...]
April 5th, 2009 by adam
I’m just finishing up a quick PHP project at the moment, which allows anyone to register an account – so as the final step before launching it, I needed to add some form of CAPTCHA system. I tried a couple of 3rd party ones and source code ones and none quite worked for me. This [...]
April 5th, 2009 by adam
I had to do some iPhone prototyping recently, and we had a trial copy of Unity to hand. I thought this was a great excuse to try using it. First impressions of the editor/IDE/environment – at least on OS X – are not good.
NB: In general, in terms of what can be done with it [...]
April 4th, 2009 by adam
Sadly, the code snippets on MySQL’s main website for PHP are mostly untested and buggy (try running them – half of them don’t execute because of silly mistakes).
After much trial and error, here’s one that *actually works*:
// Missing feature (?) from MySQL: find the list of valid ENUM values for a given ENUM
// (actually, returns [...]
April 1st, 2009 by adam
Margaret Robertson
[ADAM: I missed the first quarter of the talk because I was at a long meeting, and missed the Q&A because I had to rush to another. Sigh]
Common Elements
No-one is using the game, they’re all using the creature-creator
Nearly all working with under-12 year-olds (7-12 years)
Teaching collaboratively because they can only afford one shared copy/laptop, [...]
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