Oh Hai Thurr
Well, as you can probably see, i’ve redesigned the site, for a sixth time. I felt it was to distracting, and I aimed to make this one as simple as possible. All the text-based content is still there, but all the videos/photos/etc. have been removed. From now on, I’ll embed them into a text post.
As you were…
Like a Rock.
Well, my 360 E74’d yesterday. I rang up Microsoft and they’re sending a box for me to send it in. Apart from me being pissed off, I began to wonder why the xbox 360 was so unreliable. In replacement, I whipped out my original modded xbox, and I can’t believe how fucking solid this thing is. Seriously, all jokes about the size aside, It’s built like a house. How could Microsoft manage to fail at creating a console with BETTER HARDWARE? And then I realized… because Microsoft is almost strictly a software company (hence, MicroSOFT) they have no experience building a next gen console. The first xbox was a walk in the park for them, they built the thing like a PC, and it worked for them. But when the time came for them to step into the realm of advanced graphics and HD gaming, they didn’t know what to do. The original Xbox was always the best in terms of graphics in the sixth generation of consoles, but in the rush to keep that image and get their console out first, they forgot that they had to make the damn thing WORK.
Congratulations Microsoft, for making me seriously consider a PS3.
Portugal
I’m off in a few hours. There may be Wifi, so I may make a couple of posts, but otherwise this blog will be quie bleak for two weeks. Basically, there will be no change. :-b.
Dependance.
jQuery has made me a worse programmer. Here’s how.
I was in a situation yesterday where I was on a computer with a fresh windows install and no internet connection. No runtimes, IDEs, nothing. The only thing I could think to do was write a Javascript application. EXCEPT, the first thing I do when I write a JS app is include my local copy of jQuery, but as the computer had no internet connection, I was unable to. It was a wakeup call.
It’s made me realize how little I actually know of plain ol’ regular Javascript. I still knew the easy stuff, but once you’ve getElementById’d, what do you do with it?
I’m gonna try and learn Javascript the manly and legit way: BY HAND.
Bookie for Mac
Game Maker 7, the software Bookie is written in, is currently in beta for a mac version. This may mean Bookie could be coming to the Mac platform. More news as it develops.
