In keeping with my desire to learn as much about how the game development world works, I have spent some time looking into developing simple games in Flash over the course of the last couple years. Recently, I renewed my pursuit of this game medium, and I have been striving to learn some of the [...]

Last Friday at Blizzcon ‘08, Blizzard dropped a bombshell about their upcoming, highly anticipated sequel: Starcraft II. Straying from the classic RTS release strategy that most, if not all, games to date have followed, executive VP of game design Rob Pardo announced that the initial release of the game will contain only the Terran campaign [...]

Keeping in form with the theme of my blog, I do write occasional ramblings, and today looks to be one of them. I have often contemplated some of the deeper ramifications of the truth behind one of the most famous phrases in all of literature, spoken by Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:
What’s in a [...]

Those of you who have known me for a while are also aware that I have had an interest in photography for some time. My dad sparked the interest in me as a child, and I have never really had the capacity to pursue anything in that field. I have expressed some interest in really [...]

Due to the number of questions I receive on various forums as well as the number of times I have run into the need for an AJAX response handler in my own work, I decided I would share one of my solutions in the hopes that it will save someone else some time as well. [...]

While somewhat old news to some, the Google App Engine is an amazing tool allowing developers to tap into the scalability offered by the Google framework while developing entirely standalone applications. What’s more, along with the offer of the code base to build from, Google also allows developers to host their projects, at no cost, [...]

A friend has recently posted about Wordle on his blog, and after reading the post and trying out the site for myself, I thought I would be remiss not to make a small post about this amazing tool myself.
This creative idea uses a Java applet to read any word grouping you care to type, or [...]