Random ramblings at it's finest
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Mmm… My blog’s most recent upgrade came with an unexpected surprise. Most of the time, I don’t expect any type of cosmetic or functional changes with my blog upgrades. Why would I? Everything seems to work fine. I upgrade to keep the security exploits/vulnerabilities of wordpress to a minimal. Anyways, I’m pleasantly surprised by the …
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 …
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 …
Now, I don’t mind the occasional ad here and there, but I get really annoyed when I get a “video pre-roll”. A lot of times, these ads are played indiscriminately! I could be watching a 15 second clip, that I have to watch a 30 second ad to see! The worst ones are when I …
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 …
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 …
For various reasons, I recently came across the need to evaluate existing hosts in the market. While I’m still hosted on DowntownHost (DTH), and I am still a proud patron of DTH. I initially signed up for unlimited bandwidth and disk space, and unfortunately, there has been a recent change in policy in that aspect. …