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...
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...
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,...
Nope.
Alternate title: “Welp”. Alternate, actually informative title: “Indie Stone Still Doesn’t Get It” Or at the very least, Lemmy still doesn’t get it. Barely hours after I posted, hoping that...
There’s Professionalism, and then there’s Professionalism.
So Project Zomboid was stolen last night. Literally. Someone broke into the developer’s flat, stole two laptops containing the source code, and booked it. And these two laptops contained the ONLY recent copies of the code....