April 2012
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“He’s young.
He’ll probably walk again
But he’ll stay scared...”
– Batman, After crippling a criminal.
The Dark Knight Returns
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Norvard WebMedia (dot com)
Since the launch of Grant McMaster’s new website, I’ve come to realize an update of Norvard WebMedia’s website is long overdue. I have to fix this, and I have to fix it quite promptly I think.
People seem to be somewhat curious of the little “Created By” logo in the footer in his website, as I notice a lot of link juice coming my way, which of course is good for...
March 2012
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I Made Something
I was asked to create the new official author profile website for author and published novelist Grant McMaster. A task I accepted with pleasure.
The website as a whole is complete, and it launched yesterday. Some features included in the design is still inactive, as per Grant’s request. He wishes to keep things very simple for now, displaying only a clean front page, his published works...
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Out With The Old, In With The New
I wrote this a couple of days ago. Now I have fulfilled the prophecy of the final sentence of the craptop saga: ”I might just as well acquire a netbook…”
Yeah, no more LOUDNESS, and way more power (…of the battery kind)! No more actively working out just to be fit enough lift the thing! And lastly, no more strung neck from stretching over the laptop display just to look...
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Where Do I Begin?
My project Feed The Gamer is already live, it’s been live for a good while in its current state and it’s already a household name. It’s recognized and has been approached by Shacknews among others to feature their content. It’s running smoothly now, and seeing a lot of traffic and returning traffic.
It’s time to launch Feed The Gamer to new heights. Now, how do I...
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Tempted By Drupal
I love Drupal. I’ve worked with it several times, and I still run a Drupal site. Earlier today when browsing around the web, I happened to come across a discussion about Drupal, so I thought I’d go check out the latest Drupal 7 version. I headed over to drupal.org and downloaded the latest stable version.
After installing and setting it all up, I was very tempted and began thinking...
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“There will be no DK2!”
– John Romero, co-founder of id Software, co-creator of DOOM.
Because Daikatana happened…
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“I’m a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy...”
– John Romero, co-founder of id Software, co-creator of DOOM.
Then Daikatana happened…
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Old Crap, New Life?
I recently dug up and blew the dust off my old laptop. It hasn’t been used for almost 2 years, but hey, I created Feed The Gamer on it, while sitting in the kitchen smoking way too many cigarettes, so I thought I’d fire it up to see if it would still run: Yup, it still does. The battery is crap, though. It only lasts about 5 minutes. If that.
Anyway, after a few hours of cleaning up...
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The Drunk Caller
I’m good friends with EiKON Games and The Return Fire Podcast founder Mike. So, last night I sat listening on the live recording of the show, and I was hanging out in their IRC channel, all while drinking some a lot of beer and some Dooley’s.
Mike and co. go about their usual business, chatting about recent events and releases in the gaming world, when they decide to have the...
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More Optimization Needed
The increase in Feed The Gamer’s readers and subscribers hasn’t come to a halt yet. It’s almost becoming a problem now, albeit a luxury problem.
The servers are being absolutely hammered at times, and all the resources are being maxed out on the server resulting in crashes and errors, so I’ll probably need to combine another upgrade with the acquiring of a Code-Ninja to...
February 2012
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Heavy Load
Feed The Gamer’s user numbers have exploded in the last 4 days. We’ve seen a doubling in traffic, and way more social media interaction.
However, as awesome as that may be, more concerns emerge in my head as I’ve also noticed the the load on the server’s memory and database connections are maxing out what the site can take. What’s more worrying, I don’t know...
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Revising the Facebook Page
Next up for Feed The Gamer is to totally revise the Facebook page. So far we’ve gone through the extremely tiresome and tedious process of deleting every single aggregated feed ever published on the page.
The plan is to develop a better page, and point the main focus to our original stories, rather than the aggregated feed. On a social media outlet, the aggregated feed will be so...
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The Two
As you may or may not know, I created, own and run the gaming news site Feed The Gamer.
I’ve got some names on board as writers, which gives the site some serious leverage.
Grant McMaster, author of Metro 2033: Britannia, and Luke Dicken, a Games AI researcher and contributor to #AltDevBlogADay.
Feed The Gamer started out as a tiny blog, built by myself, for myself. It was just an idea that...
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Afterthought
Feed The Gamer’s move was a success. Now I can stop worrying, and rather relax and move everything else over all in good time. There’s no rush.
The Norvard WebMedia website will be transferred soon, as well as Ca9ine.com and a few other sites I’ve built and still maintain.
Speaking of Ca9ine.com, it looks like I can really get used to this Tumblr thing. I’ve made the blog...
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January 2012
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The Waiting Game
I’ve decided to move all the Norvard WebMedia web assets to a new host. Feed The Gamer has outgrown the current host, and the site is getting slower and slower, which is very bad as the reader base is getting bigger and bigger. The current host just can’t handle the traffic. So it was time to move on.
Now the waiting game starts. Everything has been moved, but we still need to wait...
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Strange Lands
So this is Tumblr, eh? It seems very limiting when coming from Wordpress.
But for personal use, such as my blog it’s more than enough. I do however miss something similar to Wordpress’ Plugin Directory, the Codex and a proper back-end.
I’ll get around to learning Tumblr’s ways soon enough, though.
And, as promised you can now find the old blog located at old.ca9ine.com
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The Move
To make things a lot easier for me, I’ve decided to move my blog over to Tumblr. I don’t have a lot of time to keep the old blog running as I’d like it to run, so this is the best option as yet.
I’ll try to keep the old blog archived in a subdomain for reference.
That’s it for now! I’ll keep you posted.