July 31, 2010
Over the course of 5 and a half years of playing WoW, I managed to pack on a few pounds…and by few I mean somewhere in the range of 80-90 pounds. It was a gradual gain over the years, compacted by my lifestyle decisions, namely:
1. Job as a sys admin where I sat majority of [...]
September 21, 2009
As a developer, forms are one of my biggest grievances whenever I am building a Web application. Why? Well, for one, there is nothing pretty about creating a form. Even the best Web designers, with all of their fancy CSS wizardy, struggle to build clean, consistent, and reusable form layers that can be used anywhere within an application. To complicate matters, nothing in the HTML 4 spec (though, this will change with HTML 5) provide any sort of functionality around form elements.
September 11, 2009
Today I consider myself a computer techie; I’m a developer by trade, a “technologist” in my free time, and a gamer at heart.
All of that had to start somewhere, right? Well, for me, it did when, at the age of 13, my father came home talking about a PC game he saw at our [...]
September 10, 2009
Sony recently announced the long rumored Playstation 3 Slim at the GamesCom conference in Germany, as well as a (much needed) price drop to $299. The new PS3 Slim has gotten rid of the shiny, fingerprint laden exterior and replaced it with a matte black casing, removed the Spiderman 3 font, changed the power button, [...]
September 10, 2009
I recently came across an article on Elder Game regarding World of Warcraft and how many of Blizzard’s employees had shifted onto new projects (Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, Unannounced MMO), while a newer and less experienced team was handling the current live content for WoW (dubbed the B Squad). Being a longtime (and current) player [...]
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