I never knew that so many damn stats were taken from each game!
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
The new image editing app come Photoshop contender for OS X got its full release today. I have to say that it does look very good, and at only $59 (less than 30 of our shiny british pounds) any license of Photoshop (even student ones) are looking way over priced! Will have to give it a go when I get started on some new project.
Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.0, GPU-powered image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images. "After two months of bug squashing we are very excited to finally release Pixelmator," said Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team. "With its use of latest Mac OS X technologies, breakthrough ease-of-use, innovation and low $59 price tag we think all Mac users will find Pixelmator very useful and fun."
Yay! Halo 3 is out tomorrow and getting good reviews. I think i’d better get ready to rush into my local Game at some point tomorrow!
From a certain point of view, Halo 3 is without a doubt the biggest game of the year. The combination of fan anticipation, marketing, and the skill of Bungie’s design combine to create a game that’s larger than life; if gaming has a blockbuster franchise to match the movie industry’s punch, it’s the tale of Master Chief. The importance of the Halo franchise to gaming is a very big issue, though, and one worth it’s own article. Having played through the game, there’s really only one question I’m here to answer today. Does it meet expectations? In a word: yes. It’s not the best game ever made, and it may not even be the best game this year. Will it make the fans happy, and deservedly sell thousands of Xbox 360s? Very much yes.
This makes me happy…
One final note: It looks like Leopard’s iCal dock icon displays the proper date at all times! The dozen or so people who have clamored for this may rejoice.
Catalyst is an MVC web-development framework for Perl, very similar in concepts, ideas (and even some of the implementation) to Ruby on Rails. I’m using Catalyst a lot in my job now, and one of the first challenges that i’ve had to go through is making dynamically editable tables for some of the views we are using (in other words, Ajax driven edit-in-place tables).
Following a short Google, there seemed to be only two ready-made options I could see: one, using the Catalyst controller module Catalyst::Controller::ROSE::EIP; or two, by integrating and using the stand-alone javascript package TableKit.
Continue reading ‘Making Editable Tables With Catalyst and TableKit’
Oh so very true…
Ever since Boot Camp appeared on the scene, there have been several comments about Macs being better Windows machines than Windows machines. The weird thing is it’s actually true.
Welcome to the introductory post to hocuspokus.net! So, what’s going on here then?!?
Well, basically this is going to be a place for me, Darren Oakley to dump my thoughts and little ideas that I have on a semi-regular basis… Expect posts on subjects such as Apple (god - not another mac blogger!), Perl programming, Bioinformatics (it’s what I do for a living), Unix geekiness, Xbox 360 and many things in between as I go about my daily life.
Anyway - enough of this boring first post nonsense! Will be back soon with more interesting things to say!