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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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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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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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.

A microblog, for those not familiar with Twitter, is a place to leave short [...]

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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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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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