I’ve been collecting XNA videos on Youtube into a playlist for a while now. Check it out. I’ve got about 40 videos as of this posting.
If you have a video you would like me to add, feel free to contact me or leave a comment.
You may remember Garry talking a while back about switching from iGoogle to Google Reader for his RSS feeds. (I can’t seem to find the post) Well what he didn’t mention is that there’s an iGoogle gadget for Google Reader that will show the latest unread posts. Just make a new tab for it and set the layout for one column. That way you can keep track of feeds more efficiently without giving up all those gadgets.
I recently switched to Google Reader for my feeds. I had no idea I had this many feeds in iGoogle. (about 30 feeds, 200 items a month) The trends page is really cool. I discovered that one of the political blogs I visit makes an average of 16 posts per day.
Speaking of blogs and feeds, anyone know any good PHP/webdev blogs?
Been a while since my last post… Seems like I can never think of anything to blog about. TFH is The Flaming Head, in case you’re confused.
I’m currently in the process of rewriting my entire site using the CodeIgniter framework. Not counting my blog and the forums, that is. Actually, I’m not sure if I want to keep the forums up. Nobody uses them, and frankly there’s no reason anyone would want to. And now that I think about it, some sort out shoutbox would probably work just as well. I’ll have to think about it. I’d appreciate any suggestions too.
CodeIgniter has been really fun to work with. This is my first experience with a web framework (apart from Ruby on Rails, which didn’t go so well… something about “convention over configuration” seems a bit communist) and MVC is really awesome. For the first time, I have a feeling like I really know what I’m doing and I’m not just a noob anymore. I think it might be because MVC was sort of an epiphany for me as a programmer.
I’ve decided to be more proactive with learning PHP; trying to learn the sort of things that didn’t really interest/concern me when I was just doing it for fun. Design patterns, for instance. I want to eventually get ZCE (Zend Certified Engineer). Which means I may end up starting on my own framework in the near future. I want to start doing doing freelance online. My biggest obstacle right now is a lack of real experience and, unfortunately, confidence.
As far as non-web programming is concerned, I’ve recently become interested in GUIs, both designing them and implementing them. Usability issues have always interested me because psychology has always interested me as well, and the two seem to go hand-in-hand. I mentioned before that I wanted to mess around with WPF a bit, which I still haven’t gotten around to, unfortunately.
Got my hard drive on Monday, so by now I’m pretty settled in. I know it sounds like I’m moving to a new house or something, but for the past two weeks I’ve been using Linux on my server, and I’ve felt like I’ve had a bag over my head. This is absolutely nothing against Linux, I suppose it’s just the effect of being in a different environment. It’s really hard to get things done with this sort of feeling. It’s a bit like jet lag I guess.
Sorry about the 404 errors, it’s all been fixed.
Please contact me if you see anything else wrong, I’ve been doing a lot of updating and reconfiguring on my server while waiting for my hard drive. Which gets here Monday BTW. Finally.
Here are some songs I wrote, both works-in-progress. I made them in FL Studio:
I’m working on another that is really more my style, but I can’t work on it until I get my hard drive back. And about that…
I had to send it back, I think my PSU killed it. So I need another one of those too.
Just thought I would share a great comment made on HotAir by “Professor Blather”.
I’ll never understand people who’s patriotism varies depending on who is in office or what some President or congressman may have done or not done recently.
It reminds me of liberals who proudly screeched about not flying the flag after Bush’s reelection. The flag isn’t about Bush, or the government, or any particular policy.
It’s about an ideal. It’s about the founder’s vision. It’s about the America that could be and sometimes is. It’s about the people and the history and revolutionary ideas of freedom and liberty and equality.
Patriotism has nothing to do with the government currently in power.
My patriotism never wavers or changes or fades. If yours does, you aren’t anyone I want on my side.
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One of those miscellaneous blog posts…
So yesterday my fresh Windows installation on a new hard drive started freezing on me. Not only that, but I was getting write errors. (Little yellow popup in the corner saying Windows couldn’t write something to the hard drive.) I was afraid that it was dying, especially since a lot of the reviews said things about the drive being DOA or dying shortly after installation. So, trying not to panic, I tried using different data and power cables. Which thankfully worked. But like an idiot, I switched out both at the same time so I don’t know which it was. I’m thinking it was the power cable though because it was using a whatever-to-SATA adapter, which I switched to my PSU’s only SATA power plug.
Also, the 200GB hard drive I had Linux installed on decided to jump on the death bandwagon and die too. Unlike the other hard drive that died, this one had things on it that I will miss. Although they are probably replaceable. So now I have to figure out how I want to install Linux. I’m thinking of trying out Ubuntu. I had Gentoo installed before. I like Gentoo, but it’s much better as a server than desktop because people don’t generally want to have to recompile their kernel when they decide to install a CD burner or the like. (I’m not saying it’s completely necessary, blah blah…) Some people just want it to work. And you can’t say I’m lazy cause my server runs Gentoo. 