Tiny Tower Game: Getting Constant Waves of Tenants Strategy

  So I’ve recently stumbled across a game called Tiny Tower. I’m a programmer, an economist, and in the gaming industry. It’s game had my name ALL OVER IT. A lot of people have stated that you should have your apartments 4/5 occupied to encourage more tenants to go to that floor. I found this to …

Facebook Timeline Gets Negative Feedback

Don’t take my word for it, check out the all the requests on Facebook for aid in restoring their OLD Facebook profile. http://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1856057 The list is MIGHTY long and is only saved by how users keep starting new threads on the Facebook community help forums. Below is a screenshot of a single thread complaining about …

Re-purposing of the Internet

Once upon a time, there were web pages where people went to find out things about a company. Thanks to web portals that aggregate this information, such as yelp. These web pages’ purpose is no longer the same. You used to go to a restaurants webpage to get information on when the restaurant open, directions …

Dual Language Channel Videos

So recently, I started watching video files that had one language on the left, and a different language on the right speaker. Often times, people would simply turn off their left speaker, or right speaker, and watch the video with only one speaker. Unless you’re a big fan of, one-sided sound, this is simply not …

etc/hosts.allow files and IP ranges

I’ve inherited a pre-configured box and recently had to audit the etc/hosts.allow files. For those who don’t know what etc/hosts.allow files are. These are files that services such as vsftp, sshd, and etc, would go to check, to see if certain IPs were allowed or not. If the IP passes the allow rules, then it’s …

Ticketing System vs Google Docs

When I hear project collaboration, I almost immediately hear “Google Docs” afterwards. Google Docs is great, don’t get me wrong, but for task delegation and project coordination, Google Doc simply isn’t enough. Let’s say Jack, Jill, Tom, and Bob were all to work on a project. Here’s the scenario where they collaborate using a ticketing …

Ads on Sites

Congratulations, you’ve finally created a popular abode for the denizens of the web. I guess the next step is attempting to monetize it! Chances are you’re thinking about putting ads on it. One import thing about putting ads is that you’ve obtained your current positioning by putting content and users first. While it’s great to …

Modify as Little as Possible

Today’s post is going to be on my opinion on modifying existing systems. Unless you’re a one-man-coder-army, and if you are… kudos, but often times, you’ll find yourself working with other people’s code. When working with code that you’re not too sure of its functionality, you should tread extremely carefully. Make small changes, review the …