I have started a new site, iPhone Developer Network. The vision of the site is to create a place where people interested in creating iPhone applications can get together and share knowledge.
I actually started making posts back in August, but stopped shortly there after. With the looming release of the official iPhone SDK, I feel that its a good time to start getting the word out about the iPhone Developer Network.
Come join us!
In keeping in step with my new found love of StarCraft, I wanted to play it on my laptop. One problem… my laptop doesn’t run on windows or mac, its powered by UBUNTU!
I love running Ubuntu, and I have never found a reason why I would need windows on my laptop. Ubuntu does everything I need it to, that is until I wanted to play a PC based game on it.
I did a little google searching and I found out that WINE on Ubuntu will play StarCraft perfectly! I gave it a go, and was surprised at how easy it was, and how well it all worked together.
Here are the steps I took:
There it was, a fully patched and running copy of StarCraft on my Ubuntu laptop. Can life get sweeter? I submit that it can not!
In 1997 I was really getting into computers. I had started to program, and I was graduating high school. Video Games were a huge part of my life. I didn’t play many PC based games, with the exception of DOOM, Duke Nukem, Warcraft, and Warcraft II.
In 1997, Blizzard released StarCraft. My life was forever changed. StarCraft is a real time strategy game with 3 alien races, terians, protos and zerg. I myself was a protos specialist. In 1997, it was the peak of PC gaming winning th game of the year.
It is now 2008, 11 full years after the release of StarCraft. We are in an age where my cell phone has enough power to run games like DOOM. Video games have reached limits that are astounding. I don’t play many games now. I miss playing games sometimes though.
The other day I was hanging out with my good friend Jason Keller and he says “Lets play some StarCraft”, so we did. After nearly 6 hours and many successful campaigns, our wifes came home from shopping, so we had to stop playing, or I imagine we would have been there for another 6 hours. It was so awesome that I want to set up a StarCraft LAN party at my house. If you want to join in, let me know!
I think this goes to show that good design can carry something well past its prime and still be very relevant, making it a classic. I cant wait for StarCraft II though! HOT DAMN!
I love using firefox, and one of the reasons is the tabs. Opening things in tabs is great. I really like the fact that I can drag the tabs around to make things easier for myself. Since 1995 I have been wonderign my Microsoft hasn’t made it possible to reorganize the programs that running and minimized in the system taskbar. It cant be that hard to develop. It the little things that Apple gets that Microsoft doesn’t get.
Until Microsoft can figure out how to let me reorganize my taskbar, a small freeware application called “Taskbar Shuffle” is here to save the day.
Its free, its light weight, no ads, so spyware, it just works. Run in, and then start dragging and dropping things in the task bar. After a while I have found it hard to use a windows computer that doesn’t have it installed.
You should install it to day. http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm
Bill Garoutte, just made a great blog post about using JSON with Coldfusion, as a faster and more light weight alternative to using WDDX to serialize data. If you use Coldfusion at all, I highly suggest you read it, and download his code sample.