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Are In-Game Purchases Doomed?

On June 1, 2011 By

I prob­a­bly made my last in-game pur­chase last week on my iPad. Something hap­pened that got me to think­ing and won­der­ing. Are in game pur­chases even­tu­ally doomed to fail­ure? Are the com­pa­nies who make and/or dis­trib­ute the games, espe­cially the ‘free’ ones, going to go too far and alien­ate their users so that the revenue […]

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New Toy

On August 22, 2010 By

Well, I did what I didn’t think I would do, at least not as soon as I did. I bought an iPad. Joy and I just went on vaca­tion (obvi­ous from the pic­tures in pre­vi­ous post eh?) and we thought that it would be some­thing good to have on the trip. Both Joy and i […]

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Yes, Open Source Is Important

On February 13, 2009 By

I have a bit of a rant in me right now so you may want to duck and cover. Although I tend to dis­agree with some of the rabid and rather con­strain­ing ide­olo­gies in the open source com­mu­nity, I have always agreed with the basic issue that the source code should be open so that […]

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Laconica — OpenSource microBlogging

On August 27, 2008 By

I had fun today adding a microBlog to this site at /laconica/. It is called Laconica and is the basis for identi.ca which is an alter­na­tive to Twitter which I have men­tioned in ear­lier posts.

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Review: WordPress for iPhone

On July 23, 2008 By

I am writ­ing this review on my iPhone using the free WordPress app. Athough it cer­tainly will not become my pri­mary post­ing plat­form, I can see me using it more often than I ini­tially thought before down­load­ing it. With this I will be able to post to the blog while sit­ting out on the […]

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Book Review: Learning PHP Data Objects

On July 18, 2008 By

Learning PHP Data Objects by Dennis Popel, pub­lished by Packt Publishing (© 2007) ISBN-13: 978–1847192660

This is a good start for PDO. The exam­ples and method­ol­ogy used to present the con­cepts for using PDO were very use­ful. The book steps you from the basic use of PDO in chap­ter 2, through error han­dling and […]

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