Now I’ve recovered from GDC illness, I’ve got a little free time again, and I’m starting one of the iPhone games I wanted to write. This is a “for fun and learning” project, so it’s deliberately chosen to be low maintenance / easy to make a first version / easy […]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
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(this assumes you are running Debian on your server; if not, I suggest you switch) Mediawiki. One of the world’s less secure wikis? Probably. I use and install it a lot, and it’s usually “the compromise wiki”: it’s weak at a lot of things, but it’s the “least worst overall” […]
Really? O, RLY? Well, no, probably not – but this is the kind of opening statement I often make at industry-conference parties. In this rare case, at LOGIN this year, I was showing something on my laptop at the time and happened to *type* my opening salvo, rather than just […]
I just discovered something rather annoying: people have been leaving voicemail on my cell phone. Please don’t. I can almost guarantee that I’ll never receive the message. Normally, this doesn’t happen: I have a recorded message explaining: don’t leave a message – I won’t receive it. No, really. Don’t leave […]
Every now and then I scan through my auto-spam folder and see what’s in there. Sometimes the subject lines are hilarious. Other times they teach you about new kinds of phishing attack that are being attempted. Mostly, they just say depressing things about what it is to be a human […]
There’s 45 million iPhones out there, and tens of thousands of iPhone Apps – we know this, and we know that the top-10 apps make millions of dollars each. But what about the developers, the people *MAKING* these apps – do you have any idea who they are? There is/was […]
Microsoft Office: Costs stupid amounts of money Isn’t very good Is only available on windows …but “usually” works OpenOffice: Is completely free Is an almost exact clone of Microsoft Office circa Office 2000/XP Is open-source (so that sometimes you can easily fix it yourself, quite surprisingly!) …but apart from the […]
(aka “why do my include/require/include_once/require_once files not work / seem NOT to be included, even though they are?”) PHP has a mechanism for including files inside each other. The architects of PHP didn’t really think much about what they were doing with a lot of the core language features (witness […]