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). […]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
11 posts
…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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]