December 1st, 2008 | Published in Gaming, Hiring
Red 5 Studios, a powerhouse gaming studio in stealth mode tried some highly targeted recruiting that really paid off. Check out the video below.
They showed some Tribes 1 footage in there too. It’s by far my favorite game, so they have me very curious…
September 15th, 2008 | Published in PHP, Software, Tech
A few months ago I created a small PHP tool to generate file listings for Amazon S3 buckets. The concept is the same as Apache’s mod_autoindex. Check out my shared files for an example. This weekend I finished the install instructions, config documentation, and stuck a 0.1 label on it. I guess that means it’s officially released! Hopefully someone else finds it useful and provides some feedback.
Unfortunately the process of uploading files to an S3 account still sucks — especially from Windows & Mac. I’ve been using Bucket Explorer but it’s not free AND the UI is nasty. The problem is that all the tools assume you’re using S3 for personal storage or backup and make it difficult or impossible to upload files and mark them as publicly accessible. JungleDisk works great for automatic backup but they have intentionally avoided supporting public buckets because they want to be seen as a backup app.
Dropbox will probably become a better solution for people looking to share files if they ever support truly public folders. They provide 5gb of storage for free and can also sync your files to all your computers.
August 20th, 2008 | Published in Car
Hit 90k miles on the way to the gym last night in my 2000 Volvo V40. 16 months ago I hit 80k - slow progress!
My stats from My Mile Marker show where I took longer trips (usually earning above average mpg).
June 27th, 2008 | Published in Business, Software
Things, a task management app that’s still in development, does a great job letting users know about its unimplemented features. If you try to drag a task from a project into the ‘Scheduled’ area, for example, you’ll get this popup:
Every action I’ve performed in Things has either worked as I expected or popped up one of these helpful messages. That’s awesome! It feels good to know that they’re moving in the right direction and makes me more confident in their ability to make a great product.
June 25th, 2008 | Published in Gaming, Tribes
Fallen Empire: Legions is now in open beta! Just sign up at InstantAction to play. The game runs right in your browser but can be made fullscreen if you want.
Legions is a “spiritual successor” to the Tribes series which have always been my favorite games. I haven’t had much time to play yet but I’m hoping the game is good enough to capture the interest of the Tribes community if only for a little while.
Here’s the most recent trailer (More videos on Legions Players):
