Almost all the crew members like to rip me a new one for using MT without this plugin or this plugin and without going to another platform. MT still seems to be working fine, but with the new 3.1 release I might have to jump on board or move over to something else.
In any case […]

I have never built a plug-in architecture, but if you use MT or any other type of program I am sure you understand the benefits of doing so. This article is the first part in showing you how to go about building plugins in C#.
I have been very impressed lately with InformIT’s articles as of […]

Interesting article on Wired about some of the anime powerhouses taking the US by storm.

Symbolic links are an integral part of any Linux installation, yet I know many people who are unaware of their existence and how to use them.

Using symbolic links lets you more easily do all sorts of neat things, not the least of which is to satisfy dependency issues for needy applications.

This article quickly gets you […]

NEC (UK) has launched the ND-6500A, a slimline 8 speed +/- DVD RW supporting the new Double Layer format. The advanced DVD re-writer has been developed to provide a light-weight solution to the growing need for high-capacity data backup on portable PCs.
The company says the Double Layer feature makes it possible to record up to […]

Mobile device supplier Peripheral Corner has launched what it claims is the “Swiss Army Knife of gadgets” - a hard drive-equipped portable video player, the PV-330.
The unit ships with up to 40GB of storage and can handle MP3 audio, MPEG 4 video and JPEG still photography which can be acquired from a host device (PC, […]

If you’ve ever played and enjoyed a Mario game on any platform in the past, and if you have a GameBoy Advance, and if you love having a really enjoyable time playing a video game, then you really have to play Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Read on for the details.

I know you see the title and you must be thinking to yourself, “come on Scrivs, you gotta be joking me. I haven’t even gotten my free freeflatscreen or free ipod yet.” I know, but Gratis is at it again, and this time they are offering whole computers.
What’s the catch? You have to signup 10 […]

When I was in college, I learned quite a few things about Computer Science - the C++ STL, data structures, base components of an operating system, programming languages, compilers…the list goes on. One thing that I didn’t even really think about much until I had a summer internship doing software development was source control - […]

I was going to wait till my iPod shipped before I wrote an entry on this, but since I am caught up in the freeipods onslaught and probably the limited shortage of new 20GB iPods out there, I figured I would get this up and pass along the resources.
The deal works the same as with […]

So, you don’t want to spend the money on a nice pair of shure, etymotics, or futuresonics in-ear headphones (or the so-so apple ones), or you want to keep the nice white “I have a $400 piece of easily fenced equipment in my pocket please mug me” ear buds… but you want to improve the […]

This is the kind of stuff I need to start focusing more on. I have a bad habit of not focusing on the details of my coding and it is starting to get me in trouble. Hopefully this article whips me back into shape.

If your PHP program is a dynamic web page (and it probably […]

So apparently now Longhorn will not contain some of the super-uber-breathtaking-death-defying features that Microsoft once proclaimed that it would have. I think all of us knew this was bound to happen.
Either cut out the fat or leave it in and delay the project even further. If you have Microsoft stock I would sell in the […]

I go through phases in my usage of Linux. Or rather one phase every once in a while. It’s my minimalist phase. There is this part of me that looks at a mouse as a “new fangled” invention, or thinks I would be better off without any sort of GUI. This […]

I was going to post this article and then I wasn’t because I didn’t think too many people out there were using DB2. Yes I know it has a large marketshare, but I just didn’t think our audience was using DB2.
Anyways, the article contains a lot of code to write a polling/voting system for your […]