Diablo III Beta Review

    Submitted by cweagans on April 14, 2012 - 4:26am

    I'm going to keep this short because, well...it's 4am. I just beat the Diablo 3 Beta with the Wizard class. My overall impression: this is a HUGE improvement over Diablo 2.

    The Good

    Pretty much everything except what I talk about below. Navigation/movement is pretty much the same as Diablo 2. I did notice that there wasn't a good way to walk around with the map displayed, which is something I will miss, but it doesn't kill the game or anything. The effects for abilities were really solid, and the physics are amazing.

    BSU Appathon 2012 Postmortem - Learning Assistant

    Submitted by cweagans on March 4, 2012 - 7:52pm

    This weekend (March 2-4, 2012), I competed in the Boise State University Appathon. This is a 48 hour competitive coding contest, wherein teams are tasked to create either a web app or a mobile app that has some relation to student life. Our team chose to create an alternative to Blackboard (which is the LMS that is used by BSU). The general feeling that I've gathered from students on campus is that Blackboard is a horrible kludgy tool that has no business being deployed in any production environments. I tend to agree with that statement.

    The Magic of `screen`

    Submitted by cweagans on January 29, 2012 - 4:22pm

    Screen is an awesome little utility that, in my opinion, doesn't get enough use by web developers.

    Wikipedia tells us that "GNU Screen is a software application that can be used to multiplex several virtual consoles, allowing a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from a command line interface, and for separating programs from the Unix shell that started the program".

    Help me get to Drupalcon!

    Submitted by cweagans on January 13, 2012 - 12:04pm

    Have I written a module that has helped you? Do you want to meet me in person? There's no better place than Drupalcon to make that happen. Unfortunately, I'm a student and cannot really afford to go if left to my own devices.

    If you'd like to see me at Drupalcon, you can donate below:

    EDIT: I'll be there!

    Collaboration with Unity3D

    Submitted by cweagans on January 7, 2012 - 12:04am

    Unity3D is an amazing tool. It was named the Best Game Engine by Game Developer Magazine. This engine is as close to perfect as you can get, especially if you're on a shoestring budget, as is the case with the video game startup I'm involved with. There is a big problem with the engine, though, and it's a problem that most people don't really stop and think about.

    BlogAPI: Request for Contributors

    Submitted by cweagans on November 8, 2011 - 10:31pm

    I've had a lot of difficulty finding time to work on BlogAPI, finding that I'm typically tied up with my day job or with paying client work. I know that there were a pretty fair number of people that used BlogAPI in Drupal 6 that would like to use it in Drupal 7.

    I've been thinking a lot about how to build BlogAPI for Drupal 7 and I think using Services would be a good way to go. There's a few BlogAPIs that use XML-RPC, but there are a few that are moving to simple RESTful servies or JSON-RPC, so Services make sense to me.

    A Drupal Hosting Adventure

    Submitted by cweagans on October 26, 2011 - 10:21pm

    I've been looking into hosting options for Drupal lately, and I really haven't found anything that looked amazing that was also in my price range. I know how to administer a server, but that doesn't mean I really want to. However, once I found that there were no suitable shared hosting services, I decided to explore other options.

    My Drupal/Git Workflow

    Submitted by cweagans on October 14, 2011 - 12:05pm

    I've seen a few posts around Drupal.org from people trying to figure out a solid way to use Git to effectively manage their Drupal installation. This is the method that I've been using.

    Initial repository setup

    To start off, open a terminal and run these commands (you can copy/paste if you want):

    Big Life Changes

    Submitted by cweagans on September 14, 2011 - 9:10pm

    I'm now employed by Balihoo!

    I'll be a full time PHP developer for them for the next four months. When Boise State's second semester starts, Balihoo has very graciously offered to pay for my tuition as well as give me part-time work while I'm in school. During the summer, I'll resume full time work.

    This is absolutely life changing: I've wanted to go to college since I graduated from high school, but it was not economically feasible.

    Solarized Themes for PHPStorm

    Submitted by cweagans on September 8, 2011 - 5:06am

    Solarized Screenshot

    I just ported the Solarized Light and Dark color schemes to work with PHPstorm.

    You can get it from the Github page

    I think it works with every language that PHPStorm supports. If not, please open an issue in the Github issue tracker.

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