If it can happen to Reuters, it can happen to anyone
Recently, one of Retuers’ blogs was hacked, and false stories were posted as if they were real news. Now, while that’s news in and of itself, the big takeaway that’s relevant to me and PanicPress is that if...
Yes, yes he should.
Nerd humour time. I’m having some trouble with my coffeescript compiler. Every time I try to get my webserver to compile a new coffeescript file as part of developing this new website of mine, I get the following error:...
PanicPress – Coming Soon!
Well, it sure has been a while since I’ve posted. I have that terrible habit, of course – I get so involved in Doing Other Things that I neglect the ol’ blog in-between. Apologies. Won’t happen again. (Yes...
So much fail.
The only thing worse than this video: Is the comments beneath it. lol, is this supposed to be “hot” or something? I guess this kind of marketing works on virgins or something, but it’s funny how much this shit...
Run Apache as your user for fewer conflicts
When writing code, so many things can go wrong. So many little things can be forgotten or overlooked and cause bugs and interruption. However, your time is finite and your patience is limited. Removing all these little causes of...
Spreadsheets: A game designer’s best friend
Seriously, if you haven’t fallen in love with spreadsheets yet, you’re doin’ it wrong. I’m currently in the middle of figuring out a multiple-week game loop with really tight targets. How the heck would...
Female game developers
I follow a bunch of female game developers on Twitter. Now, I also follow a bunch of male game developers on Twitter, too. In fact, it’s fairer to say that I just follow a bunch of game developers on Twitter. But...
Broken glass
Imagine, for a moment… You’re the new guy at BlokkStone Games, and you’ve had a pretty good first month. You fit in with the other programmers, and your team has made some excellent progress towards releasing...
Creating a development Virtual Machine – Part one: Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP
If you do web development on Windows, you’re probably used to making do. XAMPP can go a long way, as can Cygwin, but once you want to start playing around with anything state-of-the-art, you’ll start feeling left...
The Curious Case of The Missing Memcached::casMulti()
I understand I’m a little late to the game, but Memcached is friggin’ awesome. (No, I’m not talking about Memcache, I’ve known about that for a while. I’m talking about Memcached, the younger,...