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Category Archives: Bad Programmer!
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, problems launching, problems playing, and windows 7
This drove me completely freaking crazy for the past few days. Hopefully my pain can help somebody else. After dealing with the incredible disappointment of Elemental, Stardock’s newest game (a subject I will probably go into further detail on the … Continue reading
CBS bot for Magic Online (mtgo) publicly proven guilty!
Score one for the good guys I’d like to thank everybody on the forums who helped out in the investigation, and I hope this can be a lesson to greedy bot authors everywhere.
CardBoosterShop Bot (CBSBot) for Magic Online (mtgo) has an account-stealing backdoor!
HUGE UPDATE: Read my updated article and wotc’s official statement. Great work, wotc, for your willingness to investigate this matter, and thanks to everybody who helped prove this scam.
Intuit’s Evil Empire: Quicken Deluxe 2005 Strikes Back
I have always used Quicken for the most minimalistic of checkbook balancing. For some reason, even though the newer versions have continued to get bigger and more bloated, I’ve continued to stick with them, and even paid for the pile … Continue reading
Dotproject strikes again…
I’m sure I’ve bitched about open source plenty of times, but I have to rant once again. Dotproject is my project management application of choice. It does everything I want, and in particular allows for very awesome time estimation which was extremely useful for Bloodsport Colosseum. I was able to break down every task into subtasks and really get a feel for how much effort was left by looking at the accuracy of past estimates.
But it’s programmed by idiots…
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If you’re not smart enough to program, don’t write a programming guide
I can’t believe this. Simply amazing. I really can’t. I’m not even sure this is good enough to fall under my usual “Awesome Software Discovery” banner. So I work at a place where we use Ruby and Perl a lot, … Continue reading
Network Solutions’ domain name front running – the monopoly that wouldn’t die
It seems that the once-monopolistic domain registrar, Network Solutions, has decided they need more power again. Domain Name Wire’s article reads like a bizarre April Fool’s joke at first glance, but it’s true. I tried it out with sweettemplatesforphp.com just … Continue reading
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Sloccount’s sloppy slant – or – how to manipulate programming projects the Wheeler Way
Sloccount is my newest Awesome Software Discovery. It’s a great idea, but is far too simple to do what it claims: estimate effort and expense of a product based on lines of code. And really, I wouldn’t expect it to … Continue reading
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The move to typo 4.0
Typo is my blogging software. Written in Ruby on Rails, it seemed like an ideal choice for me since I’m a big fan of the RoR movement. But like so many other open source applications, Typo has got some major … Continue reading
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How not to benchmark software
I’ve just stumbled upon an amazingly misinformed benchmark about Flex, from an actual Adobe employee, Matt Potter. This guy benchmarks JSON, AMFPHP, and XML as ways to transmit data between PHP and a Flex app. His findings show that XML … Continue reading
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