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RPG, PHP, and history

RPG, PHP, and historyIf it works for you, use it - but it doesnt work for me.If it works for you, and especially if it has an elegant simplicity, then go for it.However,[i]So what’s the model? simple: business applications are user interfaces to business data.[/i]I think that in many cases...

Tags: scripting languages, programming languages, databases, rpg, php

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

RDBMS Applications

The motivating idea behind Codd's relational model wasn't data storage at all. Shared data storage was, to him, merely a means to an end: efficient, easily developed and debugged, applications. Basically the problem he was responding to was the clumsiness of COBOL, the single user orientation of the batch...

Tags: databases, servers, rdbms, database, system 38, codd, rpg, client-server, storage

Blog posts 2006-06-07

Kazaa loses P2P crown

Kazaa loses P2P crownNot a surpriseConsidering that the recording industry is potentially illegally abusing the Kazaa network to distribute corrupted music files.I'd be surprised if the same percentages were true in Canada, however.. given that the legal status of uploading copyright material as required by the eDonkey network is unclear...

Tags: peer to peer (p2p), spyware, adware & malware, cyberthreats, viruses and worms, security, e-mule, kazaa, edonkey, p2p, spyware, rpg, adware

Discussion threads 2004-10-11

Additional Resources

Puzzle Hero (exe)

Embark on a thrilling and amazing journey in this unique puzzle-RPG role playing game. Puzzle Hero lets you defeat more than 50 mystical 3D monsters, while you charge through picturesque environments. Hero in you must save your kidnapped brother, Tristan, from sorcerer Zalocks spell and his Army of Darkness. This...

Tags: hero, genimo interactive, games, personal technology

Software downloads 2008-07-31

Depths of Peril (dmg)

Depths of Peril is a single player action role-playing game RPG with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians...

Tags: leader, depth, soldak entertainment, leadership, strategy, management

Software downloads 2008-07-08

What programming language should we teach?

What programming language should we teach?Re: What programming language should we teach?How about Javascript? No, seriously... it's free, it's cross-platform, it's already available on virtually ANY computer without needing to install anything at all, it's not terribly complicated, and it greatly resembles many of the other languages in use.When it...

Tags: programming languages, development tools, c#, scripting languages, programming, programming language

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

RPG Studio (rar)

Free 2D Multiplayer Online RPG game wizard. The purpose of this wizard is to make everyone can develop 2D MORPG very easy and very fast. The target audience mostly for 2D/3D Artist who wish to create a sample game for High Profile demo to display their art capability in an...

Tags: frank albert pangajow, games, personal technology

Software downloads 2008-06-24

Vendetta Online (dmg)

Vendetta Online is a massive multiplayer game that permits thousands of players to interact as the pilots of spaceships in a vast universe. Users may build their characters in any direction they desire, becoming rich captains of industry, military heros, or outlaws. A fast-paced, realtime "twitch" style combat model gives...

Tags: universe, guild software, vendetta online, sales channel, games, financial services, strategy, sales, personal technology, management

Software downloads 2008-06-24

Robotic Humvees in the sky?

Robotic Humvees in the sky?Cool...but...This is, of course, _tres cool_ from a techie point of view. But that price tag makes it worthless. At $4M/bird, and this thing is intended to go into hot zones, hover and land, right? Talk about a prime target for every bad...

Tags: robotic humvees

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: mainframes, programming languages, servers, data-processing, computer programs, cobol, mainframe, ibm mainframe, ibm corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One (dmg)

On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One is the first installment in the RPG-Adventure game series based on the Web comic Penny Arcade. Create your character in the classic comic style, and join Gabe and Tycho in the alternate 1920s universe of New Arcadia, where you'll combat savage enemies,...

Tags: character, hothead games, games, personal technology

Software downloads 2008-06-05

Action Roleplaying System (exe)

Action Roleplaying system is a RPG editor that will let you create your own 3D games and scenarios easily, it was programmed with the idea of creating games as fast as possible. Everything can done very easily and in a couple of clicks, intuitively and rapidly to achieve a good...

Tags: darvex games, game engine, games, personal technology

Software downloads 2008-06-05

Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One (exe)

On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One is the first installment in the RPG-Adventure game series based on the Web comic Penny Arcade. Create your character in the classic comic style, and join Gabe and Tycho in the alternate 1920s universe of New Arcadia, where you will combat savage...

Tags: character, hothead games, games, personal technology

Software downloads 2008-05-28

Buffz RPG (exe)

Buffz RPG is a 2d Real-time Action RPG where you have an ultimate quest of defeating Nidrog, the curse creator. Wootun's King requests your help. A new source of evil magic is corrupting the planet, and only an overpowered buffer can stop this. Choose from eight buffers, with unique initial...

Tags: 2d, buffer, buffz rpg, wootun, performance management, games, human resources, workforce management, personal technology

Software downloads 2008-05-23

N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability

N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...

Tags: databases, n-tier, tier, wintel scalability, rube goldberg, wintel

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability

The core claim made by N-tier architecture proponents is that this structure breaks an application into modular elements that can be separately maintained and used for more than one application. In the simplest possible version of this you have at least one database server, at least one...

Tags: wintel, client-server, pc, application server, desktop computer, storage, desktops, databases, servers, hardware, enterprise software, software, data management, paul murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-05

(Images: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' hits the streets)

(Images: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' hits the streets)Garbage!!!!!!!!!!!What a bunch of crap designed for low class thugs to play at being cool!RE: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' still teaching 'kids' how to be better criminalsFor fear of starting a firestorm of opinion, games like the GTA franchise shouldn't be available to...

Tags: games, game, grand theft auto iv, gta, grand theft, grand theft auto

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Why client-server fails

The client-server idea goes back at least to the early 1960s and was, at least initially, a fairly direct extension of hardware co-processor ideas already in wide use throughout the industry. Thus the vision going into the IBM Future Systems project in 1968 was simple: build future...

Tags: client-server, client-server idea, serialization problem, e-voting, servers, government, hardware, paul murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-29

News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...

Tags: ubuntu, google inc., larry dignan, information technology, microsoft office, yahoo! inc., sql, microsoft corp., sql injection, microsoft windows, microsoft windows xp, operating systems, strategy, software, management

Blog posts 2008-04-29

RPG, PHP, and history

While thinking through some of the comments recorded here as part of our discussion of development languages and environments I finally figured out what PHP reminds me of: RPG. RPG [Report generator] started out in the IBM 360 world as a report formatting aid, but never really...

Tags: application, php, ibm corp., codd, productivity, programming languages, software development, software/web development, paul murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-28