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Beginners often find Twitter very confusing and useless. I think it’s because they come to it with some preconceived ideas, and when Twitter doesn’t fit their model they get frustrated. This series is meant to show why Twitter is so useful and how it’s different from other social networks. My family and I live in the city of Aberdeen in Scotland. My wife is originally from Halifax, Canada where her parents still live. In August of last ye....
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Beginners often find Twitter very confusing and useless. I think it’s because they come to it with some preconceived ideas, and when Twitter doesn’t fit their model they get frustrated. This series is meant to show why Twitter is so useful and how it’s different from other social networks. My family and I live in the city of Aberdeen in Scotland. My wife is originally from Halifax, Canada where her parents still live. In August of last ye....
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Drop pods no longer sit in one place, they now roll around, freely dispersing their monetary goodness among the citizenry. They're quite light too, which means a single grenade can send one flying across the map, with your bots following in hot pursuit. Speaking of maps, Sector X is just about done! It's definitely our most massive map to date, and it has some interesting moments. So far the ring around the top has been great for sniping.
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If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a long-running session going on a server somewhere, and log in and resume my session without losing any state. I also love X-forwarding. I love being able to log into a remote server and work in a shell there, but still pop up graphical windows (for instance, gitk’s) on my local machine when I need to.
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If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a long-running session going on a server somewhere, and log in and resume my session without losing any state. I also love X-forwarding. I love being able to log into a remote server and work in a shell there, but still pop up graphical windows (for instance, gitk’s) on my local machine when I need to.
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To follow up on my post about Drupal's MySQL performance, I wanted to share some resources I found during that journey.
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To follow up on my post about Drupal's MySQL performance, I wanted to share some resources I found during that journey.
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Randolf Geist has written a good article about systematic troubleshooting of a PL/SQL memory allocation & CPU utilization problem – and he has used some of my tools too! http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/2010/05/advanced-oracle-troubleshooting-session.html
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Randolf Geist has written a good article about systematic troubleshooting of a PL/SQL memory allocation & CPU utilization problem – and he has used some of my tools too! http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/2010/05/advanced-oracle-troubleshooting-session.html
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The main menu now has a global chat room, powered by some simple PHP/MySQL. The tutorial has been updated (it looks a LOT better), and the website received a makeover too! A lot of behind-the-scenes updates have been happening as well... the network code is becoming increasingly bulletproof, and several more physics bugs have been addressed. And now for the fun stuff... more multiplayer maps! The first one is called Gold, it's adapted dir..
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Warning: This blog post is unusually technical for most of the posts here. The hosting provider I work for in Iceland has been having some problems with one of the servers. Turns out the problems are caused by a single website running Drupal and it has a lot of traffic.
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Warning: This blog post is unusually technical for most of the posts here. The hosting provider I work for in Iceland has been having some problems with one of the servers. Turns out the problems are caused by a single website running Drupal and it has a lot of traffic.
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When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
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We climbed this hill. Each step up we could see farther, so of course we kept going. Now we’re at the top…. And we look out across the plain and we see this other tribe dancing around above the clouds, even higher than we are. Maybe it’s a mirage, maybe it’s a trick. Or maybe they just climbed a higher peak we can’t see because the clouds are blocking the view. So we head off to find out - but every step takes us downhill. No matter what di..
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Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively). Moving code into perl has many advantages, but one problem is speed – perl code is obvious a lot slower than C, and BarnOwl has a lot of hot spots related to its tendency to keep tens or hundreds of thous..
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Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively). Moving code into perl has many advantages, but one problem is speed – perl code is obvious a lot slower than C, and BarnOwl has a lot of hot spots related to its tendency to keep tens or hundreds of thous..
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Jaron Lanier is a technologist who is known for coining the term “virtual reality” in the 1980s (he started VPL Research - the first virtual reality company). I saw him speak during on the of the debates at the Quantum to Cosmos festival last year (a Pi Institute event in Waterloo, Ontario), and quickly Googled him (since he was the only person during the debate who actually said anything worth listening to). A few months ago, his first ..
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Jaron Lanier is a technologist who is known for coining the term “virtual reality” in the 1980s (he started VPL Research - the first virtual reality company). I saw him speak during on the of the debates at the Quantum to Cosmos festival last year (a Pi Institute event in Waterloo, Ontario), and quickly Googled him (since he was the only person during the debate who actually said anything worth listening to). A few months ago, his first ..
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Idempotence means that running a command or function several times produces the same result as running it only once. This is an very important design principle that is a blessing when used appropriately and a scourge when not used where warranted. For analogy, imagine you ask a housemate (or butler if that's how you roll) to empty the dishwasher. They dutifully go over there, open the dishwasher door, and find it's already empty. How do ....
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Idempotence means that running a command or function several times produces the same result as running it only once. This is an very important design principle that is a blessing when used appropriately and a scourge when not used where warranted. For analogy, imagine you ask a housemate (or butler if that's how you roll) to empty the dishwasher. They dutifully go over there, open the dishwasher door, and find it's already empty. How do ....
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Yesterday, Google released the "Google Font Directory": A list of free fonts that can be embedded and used directly from their site. It's a promising service and a good boost for fonts on the web. However, I wanted to try to use one of the fonts for this blog and the results were pretty surprising.
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Yesterday, Google released the "Google Font Directory": A list of free fonts that can be embedded and used directly from their site. It's a promising service and a good boost for fonts on the web. However, I wanted to try to use one of the fonts for this blog and the results were pretty surprising.
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I bit the bullet and added the sidebar on this blog's theme. I wanted to keep the blog design really simple and clean with no side column, but I think it's easier to browse the articles etc when you have the categories, etc.
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I bit the bullet and added the sidebar on this blog's theme. I wanted to keep the blog design really simple and clean with no side column, but I think it's easier to browse the articles etc when you have the categories, etc.
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I would like to take a couple minutes to share with everyone how she made it, and what software I used
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Hey everyone, it's me again. I'm happy to report that Beta 2 turned out pretty well! We got a bit of publicity for the final release, and more importantly, some valuable feedback. It sounds like people had trouble with the browser plugin, so in addition to the browser-based game, I'm also going to release a stand-alone version with a self-contained installer. This also re-opens the possibility of LAN parties in the absence of an internet co..
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Last week was the Ubuntu Developer Summit targeted at planning how the next iteration of the operating system, Maverick Meerkat , targeted at a October 10th 2010 release, would look like. The event was held in a spa resort off in the countryside near Brussels. A place where the developers were comfortably separated from the busy towns by forests and country roads. I went to the UDS with two goals in my mind: to discuss making the Ub....
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This is a Sudoku solver I wrote in Java a while back. Here it is running in the browser. Please feel free to type in the hardest Sudokus you can find anywhere, and let me know if it can solve them, I haven’t found any it can’t yet.
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Last week was the Ubuntu Developer Summit targeted at planning how the next iteration of the operating system, Maverick Meerkat , targeted at a October 10th 2010 release, would look like. The event was held in a spa resort off in the countryside near Brussels. A place where the developers were comfortably separated from the busy towns by forests and country roads. I went to the UDS with two goals in my mind: to discuss making the Ub....
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I wish somebody would make any of the following applications or web standards. (a few of these ideas evolve from the reports lately about Facebook's privacy issues and my general discontent with Facebook) Click to see the list.
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I wish somebody would make any of the following applications or web standards. (a few of these ideas evolve from the reports lately about Facebook's privacy issues and my general discontent with Facebook) Click to see the list.
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A3P Beta 2 is live, go check it out ! This release has a whole slew of new features, some of which have been covered on this blog. To recap: New camera angle and aiming methods. Should be familiar to fans of Gears of War and loads of other third person shooters. New money system (the return of drop pods!) with a whole new UI for purchasing items to boot. Massive AI overhaul using navigation meshes rather than waypoints. A whole ne....
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Have you ever been working on a website and needed direct access to the database, but couldn't get access without using something like phpMyAdmin? SSH tunneling can solve this common problem and a whole lot more.
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Have you ever been working on a website and needed direct access to the database, but couldn't get access without using something like phpMyAdmin? SSH tunneling can solve this common problem and a whole lot more.
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I've been pretty calm for the past few days/weeks. The sun has started to shine outside, I've had the chance to go bouldering outside the last days so I've managed to stay silent through the whole twitter follower mess, Steve's flash rant etc. But no more. I got into a conversation with my coworker, Ari, about the future of Flash in the HTML5 world. The general opinion out there that the media has led us to believe is generally that Flash i..
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