Simple notions from a developer
When I was a kid, and I want to say around 11 or 12, my friends and I used to all go out and get model rockets and spend the weekends building them and launching them. If you’ve never built one, you really are missing out. I can’t really do justice to the feeling of […]
Hello! First, a little about myself. I’m a 39 year old male software developer. I live in the greater Cleveland area of Ohio. I have a pre-teen son who is the light of my life and truly an amazing little guy (bias aside, I swear đ ) He and his mom moved back here from […]
Right now, right this moment, I am a passenger on a road trip to Charlotte, NC. My girlfriend Rachel, is taking her 18 year old son Christian, to college. I just now passed over the Ohio river entering West Virginia. Pretty cool bridge, sadly I did not get a picture. Things feel somewhat surreal to […]
When I was nine, I got my first computer. It was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. It was awesome in itâs off white glory! A friend of mine had one and also had a number of game cartridges as well, he let me borrow some, that one could create games for it seemed amazing to […]
Since I always forget the settings, here they are đ From: http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?c=kb_vcs [May 25th 2010] TORTOISESVN Diff Select Settings from Explorer's TortoiseSVN submenu. Switch to the Diff Viewer tab. Change the radio buttons from TortoiseMerge to External. In the path edits, enter: “C:Program FilesBeyond Compare 3BComp.exe” %base %mine /title1=%bname /title2=%yname /leftreadonly To use Beyond Compare […]
Well, as you may be able to tell, I have been, eating, drinking, and breathing Ektron lately. And I think I am beginning to see the light, by which I mean, how Ektron wants you to work within itself. Itâs a pretty powerful system. What I ended up with is creating a âWidgetâ content directory, […]
So far, most of the difficulties in customizing a Ektron is that a lot of the abstractions in a standard web application are already encapsulated by the system. For example, containers and controls such as images, content blocks, pages, forms, the CMS already has a pretty rich set of data attached to these. The problem […]
So I recently started a new job at a decently sized software consultancy (excellent news and a great opportunity to be sure!) and my first project is at a large hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently are using Ektron CMS400.NET 7.x host the site in question. While I have heard of Ektron in the past, […]
So as I was minding my own business surfing the interwebz, I notice this little excellent bit of gaming interest if youâre a fan of MechWarrior Apparently, Microsoft has released, for free, MechWarrior 4, here is the press release (at least as of the time of itâs posting) http://mektek.net/projects/mw4/index.html [Click on image to enlarge] The […]
I just stumbled across this story on Slashdot announcing Epicâs release of a free version of itâs Unreal Engine for non-commercial uses [Epic Press Release: http://epicgames.com/press_releases/udk.html]. The story also points out that last week Unity also announced a free version of their game engine, also for non-commercial games [Unity Press Release: http://unity3d.com/company/news/unity2.6-press.html]. It makes my […]
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