BES Mentor Speed Dating

Posting to Twitter from Feedburner - Feedburner is great, if only because you get to watch your subscriber numbers. I dare say if it wasn’t for that number (and that chart), the service would have significantly fewer users. Not because FB is bad in any way, mind you, but the best thing ...

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Review: Rango - Rango will leave a bad taste in your mouth if you brought children to the theater. What could have been a great children’s movie ended up an average drama-comedy for western lovers. Though you should blame the advertising department, not the movie. E...

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Review: Megamind - On the surface, Megamind is about a super-villain, upon losing his super-hero, must become the hero to save the town and the woman he loves. But peel that away and you realize it’s about a deformed kid learning he can be anything he wants… after he k...

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Review: The Cape — Bad. Really Bad. Extremely Not Good. - Seriously. This is an awful show with zero plus zero redeeming qualities. It belongs in the after-school slot before the evening news. It reminds me of the show Mutant X. Not in terms of plot, but in quality and writing. That is: both suck ass and I ...

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Review: Harry’s Law — Paltry, but enjoyable - Harry’s Law finds a veteran patent lawyer at her wit’s end with the suffocatingly dull world of patent law. On the same day she’s fired, Harry becomes the mattress of a suicide jumper and lands on a mattress after being hit by a car driven by what be...

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Does you like Sudoku like I do? - What? Sometimes bad grammar is dirty fun to a writer. Like sex in the shower. Don’t judge me. I saw you take two pieces of candy when the lady said you could only take one. You know what I’m talking about. We were eight. And you didn’t know me. But I...

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Relax, it’s just a naming scheme - Programming naming schemes are as uniform as a fashion parade. The farther from the the source of your programming hobby/career, the most personalized your scheme becomes. Mine varies with each project, but tends to follow suit with the language I’m ...

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More Bezier Fun… Interactive Fun! - Earlier today, I posted a Bezier curve demo. And now I’m done with what I started out to do: an interactive Bezier curve generator! Take a gander after the jump. For my game, I’ll be using a lot of Bezier curves for particles effects, alpha fades, an...

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Good ‘ol Bezier Curve Drawing - Bezier curves are wonderful and add a desirable realism to game movement (and fading and scaling and volume and panning and RPG XP levels and… and…!). But constructing the right curve for your task can be difficult. After the jump is a quick example ...

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Fun Match 3 Flash Prototype Is Fun Redux - Last week, I debuted a Match 3 (Bejeweled) prototype and commented on how fun the core mechanic is without the frills of a full-fledged game. Since that post, I’ve moved forward and now I’ve got a much more polished, almost complete version of the pr...

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Diabetic Christmas Carol - On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Twelve Reese’s Pieces, Eleven Candy Buttons, Ten Bits-O-Honey, Nine Hershey Kisses, Eight M & Ms, Seven Candy Canes, Six Butterfingers, Five Jolly Ranchers! Four Gummy Worms, Three Sour Pops, ...

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Fun Match 3 Flash Prototype Is Fun - Last night, I finished a prototype for a match 3 clone I’ve got in the works. While testing the latest build, I was amazed to realize twenty minutes had passed. The prototype, has no scoreboard, sound, UI, just colored circles on a white background. ...

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Renaming the root Trac folder on Dreamhost - Use the 1-click Trac install in the DH panel for the desired new folder name of your Trac install. Then copy [old_trac]/db/* to [new_Trac]/db/ and [old]/conf/* [new]/conf/. Open the conf file in the conf folder and change the paths so they point to y...

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