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November 30, 2002

Sims Online Story

GameSpot has another of their in-depth looks at the development of a newly-released game, in this case The Sims Online.

Posted by Brian at 10:59 AM |

November 28, 2002

Martin Fowler Interview

Found on slashdot.org, a great multi-part interview with Martin Fowler, author of "Refactoring" and "UML Distilled" (among other excellent software development books). Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.

Posted by Brian at 6:20 PM |

Genuity Bankrupt and Sold

It looks like Genuity is the latest victim of the telco "depression" of 2002, having declared Chapter 11 and sold their assets to Level 3.

Posted by Brian at 4:39 PM |

November 26, 2002

Massive Twin Towers

Popular Science takes an in-depth look at the huge "Battle for Helm's Deep" scene in the upcoming "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" movie, and at the software (Massive) used to render the tens of thousands of digital combatants.

Posted by Brian at 9:29 AM |

November 23, 2002

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

James Fristrom takes a long look at the classic Nintendo video game "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" and gives some reasons why he, and many others, consider if the best game of all time.

Posted by Brian at 6:24 PM |

November 22, 2002

servlet container performance report

From WebPerformanceInc.com comes a comparison of the various Java servlet containers (Tomcat, Resin, Orion, etc.) when operating under a heavy workload. I've only really used Tomcat, so I'll definitely be reading thie report and playing around with some of the other containers.

Posted by Brian at 1:47 PM |

November 18, 2002

Cocoa HTML Editor tutorial

Stepwise.com has a great tutorial describing how to build a basic HTML editor for MacOS X using the free Apple developer tools.

Posted by Brian at 6:16 PM |

November 13, 2002

Complete Snort-based IDS Architecture

SecurityFocus has a guide to building a Complete Snort-based IDS Architecture, including a Debian linux server, Snort, MySQL, and the ACID analysis package.

Posted by Brian at 11:28 AM |

Tuning Redhat Linux for Maximum Performance

IBM has an online tutorial (free registration required) entitled Tuning Redhat for Maximum Performance, which details ways to take an "out of the box" Redhat 7.3 install and increase its performance and reliability.

Posted by Brian at 11:25 AM |

BBEdit 7.0

Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 7.0, a major update to the flagship text editor for the Macintosh. New features include transparent CVS integration, enhanced syntax coloring, and several redesigned text-processing plugins.

Posted by Brian at 10:48 AM |

November 12, 2002

AIBO's and Greenery

Very interesting (and somewhat odd) Photos of two Sony AIBO robotic pets exploring a garden.

Posted by Brian at 11:39 AM |

November 8, 2002

Easy Struts

Easy Struts is a plug for the Eclipse and JBuilder Java IDEs for working with the Struts server-side Java framework.

Posted by Brian at 10:50 PM |

The Art of Demomaking

The Art of Demomaking is an excellent series of articles on writing "demos", or graphics hacks, on the PC platform. A lot of it seems to be DOS-based, but some of it is still relevant, and all of it is a good introduction to graphics programming in general.

Posted by Brian at 10:49 PM |

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mainframe

Ace's Hardware has an article called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mainframe, giving a good introduction to how mainframes operates, and why they're still relevant given today's emphasis on low-end and mid-range UNIX servers.

Posted by Brian at 10:47 PM |

November 6, 2002

Anthill

Anthill is a tool, similar in concept to Mozilla's TInderbox tool. It checks code out of CVS, builds it, and reports the build status, all automatically using the Jakarta Ant tool.

Posted by Brian at 12:08 PM |

Snort Enterprise Implementation

RootPrompt.org has a link to a guide for Snort Enterprise Implementation. It details how to setup a complete Snort implementation, from architecture to maintenance.

Posted by Brian at 12:02 PM |

November 5, 2002

Eclipse Wiki

Eclipse Wiki Wiki Web is a "wiki" collaborative web site for the Eclipse Java-based IDE.

Posted by Brian at 9:30 AM |

November 3, 2002

mod_rewrite tutorials

Found on inluminent/weblog, several tutorials for the mod_rewrite module for Apache, one of the most powerful (and potentially confusing) modules.

Posted by Brian at 11:10 AM |

November 1, 2002

Vista -- a Chandler prototype

Awesome! The OSAF guys have released Vista, a prototype for Chandler (their upcoming PIM). It's written in 100% Python, using Tkinter. I'll definitely be trying this out.

Posted by Brian at 1:35 AM |

Jakarta Struts Best Practices

ONJava.com has a collection of 7 best practices for working with the Jakarta Struts java application framework.

Posted by Brian at 1:33 AM |

New AmphetaDesk

There's a new version of the insanely-great AmhpetaDesk cross-platform, web-based news aggregator available. Lots of minor feature updates, bug fixes, and a couple of security tweaks.

Posted by Brian at 1:31 AM |

Acquisition 0.66

Acquisition 0.66 is a new release of the excellent Gnutella peer-to-peer client for MacOS X.

Posted by Brian at 1:29 AM |

Javascript Button Games

gamebutton arcade features some amazingly-cool Javascript games. The cool part? They all run inside a single HTML form button.

Posted by Brian at 1:28 AM |

OpenBSD pf author interview

Daniel Hartmeier is the author of "pf", the stateful packet filtering engine in OpenBSD. KernelTrap.org has an interview.

Posted by Brian at 12:31 AM |