Musing's from teh M^onk^K . : . who knows what a programmer thinks? . : .

When I was nine, I got my first computer. It was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. It was awesome in it’s off white glory! A friend of mine had one and also had a number of game cartridges as well, he let me borrow some, that one could create games for it seemed amazing to me. I learned whatever version of basic it had and the art of writing programs is beauty to me.

Since I always forget the settings, here they are :-)

From: http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?c=kb_vcs
[May 25th 2010]

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Well, as you may be able to tell, I have been, eating, drinking, and breathing Ektron lately. And I think I am beginning to see the light, by which I mean, how Ektron wants you to work within itself. It’s a pretty powerful system.

So far, most of the difficulties in customizing a Ektron is that a lot of the abstractions in a standard web application are already encapsulated by the system. For example, containers and controls such as images, content blocks, pages, forms, the CMS already has a pretty rich set of data attached to these.

So I recently started a new job at a decently sized software consultancy (excellent news and a great opportunity to be sure!) and my first project is at a large hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently are using Ektron CMS400.NET 7.x host the site in question. While I have heard of Ektron in the past, I have not had that much time to work with it up until this point.

So as I was minding my own business surfing the interwebz, I notice this little excellent bit of gaming interest if you’re a fan of MechWarrior

Apparently, Microsoft has released, for free, MechWarrior 4, here is the press release (at least as of the time of it’s posting) http://mektek.net/projects/mw4/index.html

I just stumbled across this story on Slashdot announcing Epic’s release of a free version of it’s Unreal Engine for non-commercial uses [Epic Press Release: http://epicgames.com/press_releases/udk.html].

Since I always forget how to do this I thought I’d just post it here :-)

This information is taken from http://www.athabascau.ca/html/depts/compserv/webunit/HOWTO/find.htm#EX03 and is certainly more detailed then what I will post. So without further ado, :

Scenario 1: You want to find all files that contain the string “primary” in the current directory:

Here's the scenario: you are a programmer in both hobby and career, but you've got other hobbies, like video games. But first and foremost, you are a programmer... So not only do you have a number of video games sucking up precious hard drive space, you have a full blown installation of Visual Studio, Sql Server Express, IIS, all running on your local machine. Come game time, you've got all these services sitting around waiting to be used in some development, meanwhile you're trying to get max frames-per-second with Crysis...

So I'm minding my own business, restarting my Steam client to check for any game updates and what do I see but this (click the image for the full sized version):