Simple notions from a developer
Since I always forget how to do this I thought I’d just post it here 🙂 This information is taken from http://www.athabascau.ca/html/depts/compserv/webunit/HOWTO/find.htm#EX03 [edit: the page is no longer serving here is a link to the archive.org’s cached version] and is certainly more detailed then what I will post. So without further ado, : Scenario 1: You want […]
Here's the scenario: you are a programmer in both hobby and career, but you've got other hobbies, like video games. But first and foremost, you are a programmer… So not only do you have a number of video games sucking up precious hard drive space, you have a full blown installation of Visual Studio, Sql […]
So I'm minding my own business, restarting my Steam client to check for any game updates and what do I see but this (click the image for the full sized version): So if you're at all interested in Team Fortress 2, you'll know that a few months ago they introduced the concept of unlockable customization content for the […]
So, I recently blew up my Drupal installation and was caught with my pants down and no DB backup… Well, as you can tell, I've re-installed and configured it again. Now I needed to back it up. Well I need to create an automated backup strategy, but that starts with a single backup. The concept […]
Well, everything was going very well with my Drupal installation. I've got TinyMCE working as my WYSIWYG editor, and added a bunch of other modules to do this, that, and the other. And all was well, I had encoutered a module or two that didn't work correctly and it was simple enough to remove them […]
A couple of days ago I stumbled across the reporting on the announcement of the White House switching over to an OpenSource content management system, Drupal. I've hosted or setup a number of sites over the years using various CMS platforms, for example: PHPNuke, PHPNuke Evolution, Xoops, Joomla, WordPress. All of which are good depending […]
Well, here is an interesting little story that was passed on to me from a friend with a jail-broken iPhone. Complete with screen-shots (nice touch) So it seems, in the Settings application, the item for “Mail, Contacts, and Calendars” was missing. And upon closer examination, so was the Push settings, and likely anything new with […]
While playing Team Fortress 2, I’ve found that some servers are set up for higher bandwidth usage allowing for a smoother game. To really take advantage of that, typically a few client side cvars need to be changed. However, many servers also run the default settings on their server and you’ll need to set the […]
This little tutorial will cover making custom TF2 sprays. How to make a static spray, a transparent spray, and animated sprays. First, to give credit where credit is due. I found the information on making sprays from a few blogs/sites. Unfortunately, there was no comprehensive information for dealing with transparency and animation so this article […]
I returned home from a week long vacation out of state to find my internet connection is down, which after some calls to tech support, yields a technician coming to my house in three days. At any rate, as I’m a pretty avid gamer, I have a stash of single player games which typically I […]
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