tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189121532011-11-27T17:06:28.109-07:00Sam's Blogm3mn0nnoreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-28818061890921471822010-06-05T11:00:00.000-06:002010-06-05T11:00:57.016-06:00

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-30763642488919943852008-08-18T18:33:00.002-06:002008-08-18T19:07:14.685-06:00

I play a game at WGZ ( http://www.wgamezone.com ) pretty much entirely for the nostalgia. Yeah, I did run that website at one point in time, but I think it's now badly outdated, and the administration is extremely inept at doing their job properly.Here is a good example of what I'm talking about. I was browsing the scores list when I noticed a top ranking empire had suddenly dropped a lot of

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-45216724117201336502008-08-12T10:37:00.002-06:002008-08-12T11:13:56.031-06:00

A Complete PackageJust to be clear, the title doesn't imply that the site is done, it's to simply state the new direction the site is going in (yet again... I know).After a few weeks of talking with various web game managers around the internet, I had a very difficult time finding anyone who was interested in my project. As I described in a previous post, I wanted to be a facilitator for

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-3382588434553334242008-07-22T21:18:00.002-06:002008-07-22T21:45:34.928-06:00

A little known fact is that the full source code for an alpha version of WGZ Promisance is online and freely available for viewing.It can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/promisense/source/browse/trunk/I'm releasing this not so that others can run their own verison (it does not include the required database schema), this is mainly available for transparency and a commitment to open

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-70761239189412837092008-07-06T03:59:00.006-06:002008-07-06T04:11:33.604-06:00

This may not be news to everyone, but I just noticed that Amazon has Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare listed for pre-order. I was wondering how could this be possible, considering it's been out for a little while now. A closer looked revealed that it's actually the Mac version of this game!This is easily my favourite game right now, and it's great to know I'll be able to play it on my MacBook!It's

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-13608702219586959092008-07-04T20:28:00.000-06:002008-07-04T09:46:21.862-06:00

DeadlinesFirst and foremost, I'm not going to be stating any launch dates. That really hasn't worked out in the past, for reasons you'll see below, so I'm not going to do that anymore. It'll come out when it comes out.On a lighter note, I am going to use my blog here to update anyone that's interested in the development work. That was my intention from the get go, starting with my announcement

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-53972789608779036672007-12-31T15:32:00.000-07:002008-12-08T17:55:14.127-07:00

I've been guilty of using the resource-hogging program Dreamweaver for code development for the last few years. I've been trying to find an alternative for a long time that would suit my needs in terms of features, stability and ease of use. Unfortunately for a long time my quest for an alternative has been rather unsuccessful.Note: I should clarify something before I continue. I don't use the

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-29894854972462857442007-09-25T19:46:00.000-06:002007-09-25T19:49:44.746-06:00

Long story short, I didn't really want to host my own blog anymore.I always like the concept of a hosted blog, and really just hosted it myself as an experiment.Long story short, I'm going to start updating this one with new posts.Sam

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-23422316086467607942007-02-22T18:30:00.000-07:002007-02-22T18:32:32.357-07:00

I won't be doing anymore updates at this one.I've decided to switch to WordPress so I have more control over the inner workings of the site.URL is http://www.m3mn0n.com/blog/See you there,m3m

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-65566955036597589962007-02-08T22:14:00.000-07:002007-02-01T01:21:54.663-07:00

Here is a teaser trailer:Going against what I said in my WGZ retirement post, I've decided to speed up my time line for launching a new text-based strategy & war gaming community. On March 1st the gates will open at Promisense.com. What people will find there is the most advanced and feature-packed text-based gaming site on the web.At the core of the experience will be a new fantasy-based game

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-56800406038395604702007-01-11T20:23:00.000-07:002007-01-12T16:45:32.593-07:00

I'm a huge fan of Flickr. If you've been living under a rock, it's a massive photo sharing site with hundreds of millions of photos and millions of people using it.You can learn more about Flickr here.I've got a modest collection of photos there. I've added 362 photos to the site of which 80% are publicly viewable. I have a few really cool ones which I'll post here (the larger images below), but

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-33049970643766224652006-12-31T15:30:00.000-07:002008-01-06T23:56:18.837-07:00

RetirementIn life, the only certainty is death. The end of a good thing. I think what was going on at WGZ was a very good thing in principal and for the most part in practice. Though I feel that one of the people solely responsible for the welfare of the site, Woody, has strayed so far from these good and wholesome principals that there is no way I can tolerate it or stand by idle and do nothing

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-1159169642835587532006-09-25T01:27:00.000-06:002006-09-25T01:34:02.866-06:00

I’ve decided to restart frequent updates to this blog. I didn’t mean for the next installment to come so late, but I’ve been busy the whole week these last couple of months and I just procrastinated entirely too much and then I let it slip so far down on my priority list it was almost non-existent on it.So here goes a new blog post. The topic will be extremely geeky for you non-technical readers

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-1139206155330051832006-02-05T23:04:00.000-07:002006-02-05T23:11:25.793-07:00

I'm curious about this because I see more and more backend development jobs (where your primary role is PHP or whatever coding and database management/development) requiring the knowledge of Flash (and I mean advanced Flash... ActionScripting).Now, I always have looked at it from this perspective like I'm sure many others have also: there is frontend stuff, and then there is backend stuff. The

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-1132395144799211732005-11-17T22:51:00.000-07:002005-11-19T03:17:51.876-07:00

Well order was restored.As I predicted, jason was contacted on Monday and he was not too happy about having his hosting account password changed and so he contacted ImHosted and a few security checks later, his account was back in his control and the tyrant was locked out of the site control panel. And because jason still had administrator access on the forums, he demoted McGruff and with the

m3mn0nnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18912153.post-1131851115828012162005-11-12T21:00:00.000-07:002005-11-14T06:23:01.503-07:00

I've been a member of the PHP Developers' Network forum since August of 2002. That's shortly after I picked up my very first PHP book and started to create my very own online text-based game. It's been a very rewarding experience.I first loved how helpful everyone was when it came time to requiring assistance with basic things such as understanding cron, classes, and file handling.Then came a

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