It’s ten days until PAX Australia begins and I’m hoping to get a little busy with the blog during that time by posting little nuggets over the course of the three days. With Microsoft having some form of showing of the Xbox One console, there will certainly be plenty […]
From the moment businesses could see websites being more than hobbyist curiosities and started their own, there developed a need for administrating the massive amounts of information that these sites could possess. Not everyone was a web developer either so the simpler this could be made the better. […]
A couple of days ago I accidentally left my Fitbit attached to a shirt that went into the wash. It was only there for a couple of minutes but it was enough to soak the device, which rapidly began to fail. Taking advice from my father in law […]
When Bethesda released their first game in its recently acquired Fallout franchise, I was amazed that not only did my addiction to their previous game (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion) carry over but it developed into an ever deeper attachment to a universe that I had only recently […]
There’s a great article on Kotaku by Dyad (PS3) developer Shawn McGrath about his experience and admiration for the Doom 3 codebase which was just made publicly available. It’s quite cool to read of game developers having such public admiration for the quality of a peers work at […]
I had the chance during my Christmas break to watch John Carter at home for the first time since I saw it at the cinemas. Afterwards it got me thinking about the supposed failure of the movie to attract a larger audience. Was it really that bad a […]
In the beginning, God (or Microsoft, you pick) created Active Server Pages or ASP. It allowed the server to dynamically generate web pages through the use of files containing a combination of VBScript and HTML. At the time it was clever approach that allowed for a lot of […]