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Valve’s Team Fortress 2, a game which myself and a host of other CSHers are quite fond of playing, recently received a large update that not only included new unlockable equipment for all classes, but changed the method by which said equipment is awarded to players. This has resulted in a predictable amount of wailing [...]
If you work with cross-platform applications in Windows, you’ve no doubt experienced the irritating “dot-file” effect: You install a new program, and suddenly there’s a bunch of files and folders whose names start with a period (like “.settings”) cluttering up your home directory. This happens because the program’s developers are used to Unix-based environments, where files and folders whose names start [...]
A little over a day ago, my roommate introduced Twittjr to the internet at large by submitting it to Hack a Day (whose commenters are apparently a very tough crowd). From there it spread to BoingBoing and started making its way through the blogosphere, resulting in the Twittjr page gaining about 2,500 views in the past 24 hours! [...]
I’ve been working with Drupal for several years now, and in fact the latest iteration of the CSH public web site (of which I am the webmaster) is built with it. However, when it came time to decide what kind of framework would power Grantovich.net, I chose WordPress. This was partially because I wanted to get some [...]
Twittjr is a system that allows an IBM PCjr to search the public timeline on Twitter. In case you weren’t aware, Twitter is a social micro-blogging service introduced in 2006 and has over five million active users. The IBM PCjr is a personal computer introduced in 1984 and has a 4.77MHz processor, 128KB of RAM, and uses 360KB floppy disks [...]