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  • Project Flare

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    I've recently found more interest in pursuing my social idea. I should have pursued the first social idea I came up with because Google+ came out 1-2 years after and showed the viability of that idea. The core of Google+ is basically that it is a a cross between Facebook and Twitter along with the idea that your split people up into groups. That's the end of that though, I didn't pursue the idea.

    Next up is Project Flare. This idea builds up on my previous ideas, but this time I am envisioning building it up...

  • Windows 8 and Secure Boot

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    ArsTechnica reports that Microsoft is mandating secure boot, but as one commenter puts it “it will go largely unnoticed because no one cares.” I fully agree with this statement. Most people are not technical people and will have no idea what secure boot is. On top of that, it is REQUIRED FOR ARM systems only. Most ARM processors, I bet, will be on tablets. Why would you or anyone else who gets a Win8 tablet feel the need to enable/disable secure boot? Linux? VirtualBox is great software. Use it someday.

    Shut...

  • My opinion on Game Engines

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    How do you describe a game engine anyway? Is it the combination of graphics, input, physics, audio, networking, AI scripting, and etc.? Think about it. Its weird to me, but I’m starting to think game engines either have different levels that consist of combinations of the above or there is some base combinations of the above with add-ons.

    Frameworks. Let’s think about the app space where you create a desktop or web application, but more specifically frameworks. Inherently frameworks make your job easier by c...

  • Interested in Building your own UAV?

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    http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/a-newbies-guide-to-uavs

    Bam, here’s how to get started. I don’t have the money or time to invest right now. Sad smile

  • So you want more space on your SSD.

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    If you own a SSD, you’ll wonder why does Windows take so much space! I know I always do when I look at my drive space! This is a really annoying drawback of Windows. I think if you’ve wondered about this then you’ve read about it or at least looked into it. Well, I’m not here to discuss why, but how to move some features of Windows to a HDD.

    Page file. Ohhh hooo ho, The page file is a BEAST, a HOG! Moving the page file to a HDD seems like a great idea until you read into why moving all of it is a bad idea. ...

  • When to use Exception Handling?

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    This is something programmers have come by: try { // blah } catch( Exception ) { // handle }. The infamous exception handler clause. It is something that can be overused. If I still have code (PHP) that shows my overuse of them, then I’ll post it on github. It might seem better to just never use them, in the context of web programming.

    Today, I read a comment on the PHP documentation describing exception handling as a way to handle graceful abortion of your script. That makes sense, of course, but when shoul...

  • Fedora 16 rc.local and virtualbox

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    It appears it took me quite a while to figure out how to finally get my shared folder auto-mounted on boot.

    I’ll show you the error I got <---- Starting /etc/rc.local Compatibility ^[[1;31mfailed^[[0m –--->. I put the arrows there, but its from /var/log/boot.log saying that it tried to start up rc.local but failed.

    This was after I followed these directions.

    It specifically says on the Release Notes that you just have to create the file, so why am I following a tutorial? *sighs* Well, maybe it works, I don’t k...

  • Extending php’s objects

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    *This has largely been nullified for my uses due to Traits being implemented into the PHP standard*

    *sigh* Long time since I’ve posted… Interesting times with programming languages. Anywho, I’ve been wondering how I could push responsibilities onto objects and further define an object without defining them inside of the class from the start.

    So I thought, hey let me create a function that’ll create an array that I could turn into an object like this:

    function defineObject($data, $methods){
    $resultObj = array();

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  • Really cool way to Style Radio Labels

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    I’ve been looking at ways to style forms in ways without Javascript/jQuery and all that jizz jazz. CSS is the way to go! The goal here is to create button like radio labels, so the assumption here is that the radio circles are hidden and the only indication of a selected radio is the highlighting of the label itself. Let’s get started!

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    Alright let’s create one radio and one label:
    <input id=”radiooooo” class=”formRadio” type=”radio”><label for=”radiooooo” class=”formRadioLabel”>My Radiooooo Label!</label...

  • Programming for Windows Phone 7

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    Windows Phone 7 is a sexy OS with a beautiful UI. It is like that hot girl you've been spying on, but haven't bothered to get at because you already have a girl (Android/iPhone). It is sure a wonder. Anyway, yesterday I went ahead and tried the new Mango Developer tools though I did not attempt to use any new features. As much as I could have, it is a logical decision since I've never attempted to build any test application.

    First and foremost, I personally think you need to learn about Windows Presentation ...