Diablo 3 Announced
For those of you that are living in another dimension and dont already know yet , Diablo 3 has been annouced by blizzard.
Head over to the official site Blizzard and check it out. I personally cant wait for this.
Archive for June, 2008
New DRM tool for 360
Microsoft has just release a new DRM tool to transfer content from an old 360 to a new one .Kudos to them and about time as well.
XKCD > all
Today the writer of XKCD just out did all the previous comics and i have to say kudos man on such a awsome comic.
If you have not yet read it head over now to XKCD.
You will not be disappointed ,Zak remember to turn of your wireless ,you never know :) .
Oh firefox 3 how you pain me
So i changed the theme of my site today to a much more white and subtle theme which i hope would fit in a lot more with my website , but it seems that firefox 3 does not like something in the style and as such the whole blog falls appart .
Until i get a chance to fix it , i have changed back to my old theme.
A Dragonfly can’t Rise from its Ashes
Unlike a phoenix , a dragonfly can’t rise from its ashes. To get the full understanding of this article I recommend reading the original, down at polymath programmer.
The basis of the post was that just like a dragonfly that skims the water when it flies over it, a lot of people these days never seem to read things in full (the entire text) and naturally this leads to all kinds of frustrations from both the reader and the writers perspective.
Also, in the above mentioned article, the writer made a nice point saying that most dragonflies die after approximately 4 months. In the same way the information that article skimmers gain is never long lived, be it in the way they use the information or propagating it to other people. The information always stops as soon as they find the next big thing.
Using this same analogy, I would like to apply this to games as well. In recent times I have been noticing the very same trend which is especially common in Xbox 360 games.
Gamers tend to rush a game to such a point that they are basically skimming the story and all the other features that games present to users. The one reason for this is that Xbox users want as much gamerscore points as possible and then simply move on to the next game. The other reason is that during the holiday period so many games are released at such close intervals, that for a gamer to play all these games they end up rushing a game just to play the next. While there are many gamers that will come back to play a game some more, not all do this and the majority just continues on and only return if the game makes some kind of debut in the news.
I would like to ask all gamers out there reading this to take time when they play the next best game. Enjoy everything from the music to the textures and the lighting. Lastly remember to take a few minutes once you have finished the game to let the credits roll cos you never know if it’s going be your name on that list next time.
Edited by: Raymond Beets & Francois Wiid
Is it safe to wake a hibernating language ?
I love ASP.net / C# and i love them with a passion to the point that i use it at just about any point possible i can when i develop applications.
Unfortunately that love for the language bit me in the proverbial behind. While i do keep up with whats happening in the Dev Tech market as new languages are phased in and old ones phased out i still tend too look out for the .Net specifics and tend to let the rest take a place on the back burner.
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Between a hard rock and the deep blue sea
So the other during a game of COD 4 the guys came up with a interesting argument and i thought i would share it here and see what more people think about it.
The Scene :
You are playing a COD 4 multi player match (Team Death Match), its on a competitive level but the current match is just a friendly match against a rival team. Winning and loosing is not a big issue (but we all like to win :) ).
The Argument :
The enemy has a player that is either camping or using a noob tube (the mounted grenade launcher) and is clearly spoiling the fun in the match but clearly causing the other team to win due to points. The said player is constantly doing the same thing over and over again (camping or tubing) .
The Result :
Do you do the same as the enemy team so that you can win , or do you hunt down that player only and make their life hell till they change. Also which person do you hate more , i personally hate the tuber more since the camper can be slowly flushed out once you find the spot they camp from. The tuber is just damn annoying.
Please keep it clean.
Million Man March
Today will hold event to a very important march, yes today is the day of the million man march. The purpose of the march is to deliver a memorandum against crime .
But in South Africa whether this works is another story since the higher ups in management never seem to listen until something turns into a crisis and then to they still what crisis.
It is truly a sad state that this country is turning into ,i for one hope that the march has positive outcome. Alas as i look out the window and i see the weather i wonder if that is going to help at all.
While this was a very good idea if it will work out is another story ,for example there is the issue of the number of marshals that have to be at the event. The number is based on the turn out of people at the event, i have not managed to get the formula but if there is 100,000 people then there needs to be 50,000 marshals for example , and as i said if you are not sure how many people will turn out how do you plan for this.
O well good luck to them and lets hope something positive comes out of this.
In Memory of lives lost
A lot of people i have spoken to today don’t seem to know that today the 6 June is a special day in the hearts of many.
Today dear readers was D-Day ,the day of the great invasion of world war 2 and its on this day that many people known and unknown lost there lives for a greater good. While the true number of lives lost will never be know its hoped that there effort was not wasted and that we can at least appreciate the world we live in today thanks to those many people.
While this may be small its the least i felt i could do.
Something to ponder on, Total number of lives lost.
Protonote Beta & MGB Beta the ultimate collaboration
So i recently got a chance to look at Protonote and i have to say that it is certainly interesting and it works very well.
Since i got it working so well i decided to integrate it MGB so that i can hopefully push the development a bit more.The problem that i find that protonotes sovles is that making notes on a site is such a problem. To notify a developer either a forum has to be setup or a blog is used or something of the like. While this works generally ,i have found that with web site development if the people are not meeting face to face it can be hard to pin point changes that they want a developer to make. This leads to screen shots flying around with squiggles all around and doesnt really help with keeping track of scope creep.
Protonote allows notes to be hooked directly to a site just like how a normal post it is stuck on anything else. The best part is that all of this can be hooked up to a MySql Database and can be tracked and monitored.
Go over to http://mgb.codebreaker.co.za and give it a try, to me as a web developer this is a invaluable tool.
