Entries written in June 2007

Written June 27, 2007 in punditry, reviews

One of the games that I used to play (heavily) was Jumpgate. It was similar to Origin’s 1990’s-era “Privateer” title, in which you fly a single-man spaceship around and attempt to achieve certain goals while interacting with people, collecting resources, and shooting stuff.

Like everything, I got bored with it pretty …

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Written June 27, 2007 in punditry, webdev

My advice, given post-dot-com-boom, used to be “Get a degree, work hard during the day to build your rep at work, work hard at night to build your rep on the internet — your work rep and internet rep feed each other.”

My new advice: Create a cool facebook API application …

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Written June 25, 2007 in php, symfony, webdev

In a Symfony application that I’m working on right now, a number of administrative functions are intermixed with the user interface. Everything’s controlled with standard security permissions at the module level, and all should be well and good. But sometimes, your best defense against people trying to hack and cheat …

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Written June 24, 2007 in webdev

WBox - http://hping.org/wbox/… it’s like a http swiss army knife.

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Written June 22, 2007 in meta, punditry

I had my tonsils removed Tuesday. Today, I’m mostly up and around (but still not handling computer work because mucking with live databases and codeine do NOT mix.) and active. Sure, I’m not talking much, but I’m also not in crippling pain. Not bad for four days after a major …

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