Grumpy Tech Guy
Blog URL http://grumpytech.blogspot.com
Located Fair Lawn, New Jersey USA
Tags technology, rants, game design, game development, software design, java, flash
Software engineer's thoughts on technology - sometimes grumpy, sometimes depressive, sometimes happy (though not often).
Latest Blog Posts
- Unusual games at GDC 2009 on Apr 6, 2009 in game development GDC game design
Two very interesting events at GDC were IGF (Independent Games Festival) and experimental gameplay workshop. I immensely enjoyed people presenting new creative ideas, prototypes and finished games, and I wrote down the names of the games that caught...
- OnLive on Apr 2, 2009 in onlive games game development GDC
As I said in my previous post, OnLive attracted quite some attention at GDC 2009. Here are some more details about this new service. The details come from my conversation with one of OnLive representatives – unfortunately, I don't remember his name...
- GDC 2009 Summary on Mar 31, 2009 in game development GDC
Yes, I know, this short summary of GDC 2009 got a bit delayed. But, I think, better late than never (it seems more and more to become my permanent motto). In short – it was cool. But for me it was slightly less cool than the previous one, maybe be...
- Mail.com Redirection and Spam on Feb 27, 2009 in email mail.com
It happened so that I use mail.com premium redirection service for my emails. (When I started using it it wasn't premium, and it wasn't mail.com either. It was Altavista – does anyone remember this word? - giving out “permanent personal email add...
- In search of a ticketing system on Feb 25, 2009 in project management programming
Using ticketing systems to organize project workflow became almost my second nature, and now I am looking for a good system to use with my personal projects. Here is what I need:The system should be simple enough to be usable in a small-scale environ...
- Sad story of ma.gnolia on Feb 17, 2009 in web2.0 ma.gnolia
Well, well, well... Seems like it takes a really sad story to bring me out of my hibernation. The story in short: very popular bookmarks-management service ma.gnolia recently suffered a major data loss – I mean, really, REALLY major. So major that...
- MySpace doesn’t like me… on May 19, 2008 in personal social networks
Now this is getting ridiculous. After spending some time working on Facebook applications, I decided to have a look at MySpace, which recently has opened its OpenSocial - based developer platform. Since I didn't have a MySpace account, I've created...
