A few weeks back I finally decided to do something with an old computer that was just sitting around, so I put Ubuntu on it and made myself a fileserver. Next step was making all the stuff on the file server visible to the 360 so I could play music and video directly on it [...]
Issue:
Recently I ran into a rather weird problem. I needed certain operations to take place when my program finished running, irrelevant of the manner in which that happened (normal exit, error, crash etc.) Doing this in Java seemed to be a lot more complicated than what I was expecting.
finalize():
There is a method in java [...]
Whenever some website emails me MY OWN PASSWORD in plaintext, I feel like pulling my hair out.
1. You should not be storing passwords in plaintext!!! NOT! EVER! There is no excuse for that, no excuse, I don’t care how small and insignificant your website is, that is unacceptable, simply unacceptable!
2. You should never email such [...]
These have been the best 28 minutes of my week. The following video has Jesse Schell (a CMU professor, game designer and imagineer) take us through games as they are today and as he envisions them tomorrow, where the entire world will be a potentially huge RPG. This trip is a bit about technology, but [...]
I found this post to be wonderfully insightful. Enjoy!