I recently had the opportunity to set up Dan’s Guardian at home. The assumptions of this article are that you have access to a basic Linux or Macintosh computer somewhere, something small and old that you don’t need anymore. The basic idea here is that you’re going to build a passthrough filter and [...]

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Last week, I had an opportunity to revamp one of my other blogs, and I updated it to a full Wordpress site with all the bells and whistles. One of the things I wanted to do was include a separate database for my published works, so I could list off what had been published [...]

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I was working today on my storyengine / storykeeper / narrator codebase when I hit a snag. Storyengine converts text to XML and embeds in into a database. Storykeeper is a little rails program that I use to make sure all my keywords and so forth are set up correctly. And narrator [...]

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Thanks to an unnamed submitter (whose email bounced when I tried to thank him), ThinkSaber (available only in the subversion version for the moment) now also detects the presence of the Apple Motion Controller chip and will use that device if it’s available through PyGame.
Yes, ThinkSaber now works on Linux Macs.

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I recently wrote a game, and found it very much like developing a Javascript-based web application. (My wife, who’s a journalist with the video game industry beat, insists “it’s a toy, not a game. There is a difference.” I will defer.)
If you’re a web developer who does a lot of Ajax, there [...]

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What he said.
More to come.

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I’d gone to Borders Books find myself a copy of the Ruby Pocket Reference. I’ve long liked having paper books for some things; I don’t need the tactility of paper for fiction, but for reference it’s absolutely critical, especially when I’ve reached the point of having so many tabs open on the browser that I’ve [...]

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I know there are people out there who love the way Ruby does some things, but there’s one feature of Ruby that drives me nuts, mostly because it doesn’t do things The One True Way of Python. And that’s call by reference.
In Python, everything is a reference. Let’s say you have some methods, and [...]

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I spent most of today working on my story website. It’s a pain in the neck to maintain, especially in updates, and it needs more smarts. A lot more smarts. I decided to see how much lifting it would take to get all of my stories, regardless of series or arc, into a [...]

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The website Elect Tina Orwall runs Wordpress 2 on a Gentoo Hardened Linux server running Apache 2 and MySQL 5. The client was given a copy of Wordpress 2: Visual Quick Start, which I consider pretty much the only book a client should need to make their site work. If she needs more, [...]

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