April 2002 Entries

Short Game Review - Dungeon Siege

I haven't posted any game related stuff to the site for quite sometime, mostly because I haven't had time to post anything due to the classes I am teaching and work. My taxes were done this past week and due to the large amount of money we owed I had to do something to lift my spirits, I bought a new game. Intro First off let me say that I have never been a fan of RPGs (role playing games). Throughout my life I have been a FPS (first person shooter) fan. Fast action, blowing things up, and killing fellow co-workers...

posted @ Monday, April 15, 2002 3:46 PM | Feedback (0)

New Proposed PHP Functions

These are a little late for April fools day, but none-the-less these are funny. We made these up whilst sitting around the office back in the summer. I thought I would put them out now, we've had them long enough. Hope you have a good laugh. Proposed new PHP functions In response to many recent projects, we'd like to propose some new PHP functions to help speed development time. i_wanna($task) $task is any task that needs to be done.?? Always returns TRUE. Example: $discount = i_wanna("give my friends a 20% discount on some items in my store"); because A modifier to be used as a conjunction between...

posted @ Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:51 PM | Feedback (0)

New PHP Book by Rasmus from O'reilly

I was on the Internet today talking to Rasmus, the creator of PHP and he was talking about his new book. I managed to get a few juicy nuggets out of him about the book and who it is intended for. Create your own language, create your own book. That seems to be the moto for Rasmus these days. He recently completed a new book published by O'Reilly called "Programming PHP". I asked Rasmus who the book was intended for and he stated: "It's introductory, but aimed at a smart newbie. It doesn't hold your hand too long, just gets you...

posted @ Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:27 PM | Feedback (1)