Is local multiplayer dead? What happened to local multiplayer? I'm tired of dropping $60 (over 1/10th the cost of the console itself) on a game that I can't enjoy with my friends. In the same house. Which you have been able to do since the home version of Pong in 1975. Fight the guy you can't see I recently purchased the new UFC game for PS3, which is only single player locally, 2 player online. I have been having friends over and shit talking while kicking their ass in a fighting game since I was a kid, Karate Champ allowed 2 people to fight locally in 1984. We all grew up playing Street...

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While working on some front end optimizations for a venture of mine I went on the lookout for a better bundling strategy then that provided with the default rails stack. While rails does provide bundling of CSS and Javascript it does not support minification. Which in my opinion is a huge win for site performance, and a less needed feature for this particular project; but a nice to have is the concept of bundles. Specific sets of pages may need the same 3 Javascript files etc. So it would be nice to just keep track of these common bundles and include them as necessary in my layouts and views. Enter...

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I noticed a couple of days ago there are some unexplained errors when running rake spec with the rspec rails gem. That appear to have been there for a while. 3/07/2009 when running script/generate rspec new rake tasks are placed in lib/tasks/rspec.rake if you open this file you will see that line 101 is the offending line ::STATS_DIRECTORIES < < %w(Routing\ specs spec/lib) if File.exist?('spec/routing') should be ::STATS_DIRECTORIES < < %w(Routing\ specs spec/routing) if File.exist?('spec/routing') I sent a message to David Chelimsky so this issue should be resolved in the next...

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I previously posted a rant and a bit of a story telling article about some of my horrible experiences with recruiters. Well about a month ago I had yet another experience. I give to you the proof. I was sitting at home  and I received this email. (shortened to just useful excerpts) Hello Erik, Trust you are doing well. I just left you a Voice Mail. Please let me know if you are interested in the position bellow by sending me your resume. I will call you to further discuss.. Web Developer III Location: Orlando, FL Job Type: Contract Duration: 9 months Rate: Open .. long position...

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I was wondering around today and happened to run into this super-lightweight cms called le.cms. Intrigued I continued to read about the benefits of the application and I read this: The content is stored in text files, one per page, which means that no matter how many pages there are, page load time remains virtually the same, unlike a CMS with content stored in a database that takes longer and longer to query as more content is added. I was shocked, they cannot be serious right? It seems as if in their opinion databases have been a waste of researchers time. I don't know where to begin at dismissing...

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For those that have not used metric_fu (http://metric-fu.rubyforge.org/) its a great project by Jake Scruggs (http://jakescruggs.blogspot.com/) that merges many different ruby projects for measuring code performance, into one bundle of rake tasks and generates html reports. Up until now its churn feature (which shows you which of your files have been modified the most in source control) has only supported subversion. Myself I am a huge fan of Git and I use it for everything, even when I work on projects in other revision control systems I use things like git-svn and git-p4 to push to those systems...

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There are probably as many theories on proper commenting of your code as there are developers writing the code. What is worth noting? what is not? I think to much focus is wrapped up in rules that make writing good comments confusing to new and seasoned developers alike. I will go over a few simple rules I like to stand by. 1) Use XDoc comments wherever applicable. There are a number of tools out there that will make your life a lot easier when generating base documentation and HTML versions of your API documentation. They are quite useful. 2) Don't comment just to comment. Quantity is not better...

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It's getting a little ridiculous with the number of "Is Linux Ready for the Desktop", "Is Linux Ready for the Masses", "Will This New Release of Ubuntu Make Linux Ready" articles I continue to see. What constitutes ready? Linux has been a stable operating system with all the functionality you would expect out of a modern Operating System for years. For that matter so has Mac but they still haven't come close to touching Windows' market share. I don't believe we will ever see any Operating System over take Windows, in reality I think we will slowly watch these market shares level out. Ninety...

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After writing my previous rant about recruiters titled Trapped in Recruiter Hell. I decided that it might be beneficial for me to compile a list of tips for dealing with recruiters to alleviate some of the hassles. There are several mistakes I see people make, or things that contractors just aren't aware of before jumping in to a contract position. Is It Really A Good Opportunity? When looking at any job offer through a recruiting firm the first and foremost thing to remember is that recruiters are sales people. Despite what any recruiter says, they are not out for your best interest. They...

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I have been offered a permanent (cast) position at Disney. April 7th marks my first day as a Disney cast member. Up until this point I have been a leased worker. I have been working for Disney Internet Group as a leased worker since January of 2007. This has been a great experience for me and has introduced me into the world of a relaxed work environment. The people I work with are fantastic, and the work is very rewarding. We all work hard and play harder. Everyone here is extremely intelligent as well as quite amusing. I couldn't begin to sit back and reflect on all the great moments here,...

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