Monthly Archives: March 2009

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is Restricted! (Steam Ubisoft Sales)

Posted by Steve Oxley on March 29, 2009 3 comments

If you’ve been following the steam store at all this week, you probably have noticed that there has been an Ubisoft sale going on. Each day a new game has been put on sale (Monday Assassin’s Creed, Tuesday Prince of Persia 4 (? the latest one), Wednesday was Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, and Thursday saw a good deal on Far Cry 2. All of them were exceptionally good deals and I want to play all of them (except I already played through Assassin’s Creed) – I probably will when I get back to the states. However, the weekend deal was the greatest one, in my opinion: four Ubisoft games – Beyond Good & Evil, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, Far Cry, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic – for $10! Supposedly.
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Episode #5 – Tekken thumb to the French police

Posted by Tom Schultz on March 22, 2009 1 comments

Sorry we’re so late in getting this out.  Hopefully, we can get on a regular schedule for putting these podcasts out and maybe some good posts too.

Keep watching and feel free to comment or give suggestions!

  1. Topics
    1. “Tekken Thumb”
    2. Quad-core vs. Dual-core
    3. Chainlove.com
    4. The french police adopt ubuntu arstechnica.com
    5. More talk of communications between linux distributions
    6. We got Linked!
    7. “fizzbin” hanselman.com
    8. deathswitch lifehacker.com
    9. spokenword.org
    10. Twitter uses amazon S3 to host it’s images
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Cool linux commands

Posted by Tom Schultz on March 16, 2009 1 comments

Here is a list of linux commands and files that have information that I found interesting or useful.

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PHP Contextual Navigation in Symfony

Posted by Steve Oxley on March 13, 2009 3 comments

I am currently working on a project using symfony and got to a point where I wanted to add a contextual navigation menu. In other words, I wanted to have a menu that would show a list of pages, but not show the current page. After considering using slots, components, and component slots, I decided on a solution that I like. Read on to find out what it is. Read more »

Hacker News Scalability

Posted by Steve Oxley on March 11, 2009 None comments

OK, this is pretty funny. I’ve been reading hacker news since I read Jeff Atwood’s post where he advocated it. Today, I clicked on the bookmark icon for it and the following popped up:

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Who needs some Chainlove?

Posted by Tom Schultz on March 11, 2009 None comments

So I enjoy mountain biking. I haven’t road tripped across the entire United States to bike but I’ve watched everything The Collective has put out. I have ridden some pretty good trails though.   Mostly I’ve ridden at Burchfield Park and some trails at Andrews University in Berrien Springs Michigan.  Along the way I have broken parts off my bike and I have wished that I had particular pieces of gear, but what’s the one thing that sucks about mountain biking?  Gear is expensive!

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Interface Design

Posted by Eric Shull on March 11, 2009 None comments

I stumbled across a website on interface design this evening. It has some good points that deserve to be implemented more often than they have been so far.

I’m especially a fan of implementing Fitts’s law, though I haven’t thought about it quite the same way it’s presented here.