Hint: it’s not on the Wii. I played this as a kid, except all the motion was in my head: Utterly cool. (Really, I used to fill up sheets of paper with frozen-in-time contraptions that funneled a ball around the paper into a goal. But turning that into a video game? Stroke of genius.)
Category Archives: Programming
Lazy Programmers
September 4, 2007 – 9:02 pm
From Microsoft Excel for Mac: I sure love being told that the programmers knew exactly what I was trying to do, but decided they weren’t going to bother doing it for me.
By Programmers, For Programmers
May 29, 2007 – 9:17 pm
Another cross-platform development solution hit the geek news sites recently: Lina. According to their website, With LINA, a single executable written and compiled for Linux can be run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems. Native look and feel, eh? Not likely. There’s a clue right up front [...]
Dear Travelocity Web Developers,
May 27, 2007 – 3:46 pm
The plus character (+) is a valid character in an email address. Stop telling me it isn’t. Actually, Web Developers in general, please take note of that fact. Half of you are guilty of the same thing. But much more importantly, don’t let me sign up with a ‘+’ in my email address if your [...]
I Can Neither Play the Drums Nor the Piano
November 21, 2006 – 12:45 am
I’m not a particularly smart guy. I don’t retain information well, and I’m prone to intuition over reason. I do math slowly, not in firey blasts. That’s one reason I like programming. I can get away with being mediocre 90% of the time. For the price of persistence, I get to seem way more talented [...]