After being inspired by things the Kinect can do, as well as its compatibility with XNA Game Studio, I have decided to set sights on working on implementing it in unique gameplay.
On my way to school, I was daydreaming away on what I would do with my indie game studio once I could get things moving. That’s when I realized, maybe it would be better to go with a slight change in the name since it seems there’s some sort of Shadow Falcon comic book in existence. Sure, there’s a good chance that’s not a big deal, especially since the words aren’t all that original, but people can just be jerkovs about such things.
Anyway, was just thinking about some possible things. I definitely did not want to add “studios” to it, and I’d rather not explain why for that one. I thought maybe “games” would be something to add, but it just didn’t seem to fit right. But then, it hit me. Just one little change would make all the difference.
Whether I’ll stick with it or go back and forth between the original, I have no idea. But for now, I own it.
I went and purchased a domain for the gaming studio, company, or whatever it’s called I want to start up. For now, it’s nothing, but today marks the day it all began.
I let this place go dead, which isn’t cool. I just need to do a better job at keeping things up-to-date. It’s hard to do though if you’re busy.
My classes this semester are: an astronomy lecture and lab, a web programming class, and a game programming class. I hope to somehow use these to better my site. Maybe even end up making this all rather portfolio-y. Who knows.
In the web programming class, we make use of the Apache Tomcat server, which is pretty nifty. We also began using Cloudscape for databases.
The game programming class has us using Visual Basic C# in conjunction with XNA Gaming Studio.
I will go into more detail on things in future posts. At least that’ll give me something to write about.
More technical difficulties flowed after the previous fix. First, after installing a plugin, I had some sort of quarantine error.
I ended up finding the solutions here. It said it’s something Macs tag on files that haven’t been run yet to prevent them from doing anything until they have been approved. A very good feature, but it made the situation a bit annoying. What I did was deleted the plugin and downloaded again through Ubuntu. Problem solved.
But then, the permalinks weren’t working. =/ After some searching, I found the answer here.
To enable the mod_rewrite module at apache, I just simply do this 3 step:
First, add the rewrite.load to /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/Second, edit the apache configuration for my virtualhosting. For example, in my computer I only have one virtual hosting (/var/www) that is default from installation, so I make some adjustment for that (In my case I have to edit this file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default)
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
Change the Allowoverride value to all for the document root directory
For example, I made change to this part of the configuration:
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2′s default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
# Commented out for Ubuntu
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
Finnaly, just restart the apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
My suggestion though would be, for the second step, to do
sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
instead. Much easier, in my opinion.
I was testing out running LAMP on Ubuntu 10.04. I tried installing WordPress to see if I had the databases up and functioning. However, I kept getting a blank screen on install. It seemed that no matter what I did, it wouldn’t work. I tried connecting to the database using the same information on another page and it worked. I didn’t get the problem.
Then, I found that I needed to put this into the terminal:
chown -R www-data /var/www/wordpress
That was it. Did that, and it worked! 
Crazy, huh?
Upgrade to the latest WordPress version? Are all of your comments for some reason going into the comment moderation even though you have the option off?
If you haven’t fully activated Akismet but have it turned on, disable it. It seems that little bugger is causing the issue. Otherwise, finish activating it and get it up to date. See if that works.
I had to help someone fix this issue and couldn’t find the solution on the internet. So I post this here for someone else. I did the same for the last couple posts. Maybe I’ll do this more often.
What does this Kougra and HTML learning have in common? You can find both on Neopets’ website!
In this age where we rely on and use computers daily, HTML is a handy thing to know. You can design your own webpages, or at least spruce up that simple MySpace.
Sure, there’s many more complex things out there for webpages, such as PHP and Javascript, but that’s not the place to start.
One thing that helped me greatly with learning HTML was Neopets. Yes, that online game where you take care of pets, that eventually made card games and toys. On their site, there is an option to make a webpage for each one of your pets.
With little kids being the target audience, they would have to make editing the page simple, right? That’s why they made the Neopets HTML Guide.
Those familiar with forums (like TN 
) may find the coding a bit similar to BBcode, which is what those tend to use. BBcode is basically a simplified version of HTML that lets forums only allow certain coding, as well as being much more simple.
Anyway, take a look in the guide and sign up. Experiment on your Neopet’s page. Go ahead and post a link to the page so I can check it out. 
Here is my continuation of my previous article. If you haven’t read that, go read it! 
When I finally got to get my hands on working on my websites, I had already knew what to do. Why? This was because I had already had some experience in using cPanel, as well as with using an FTP client.
Perhaps I’ll make website-making guides in the future. Yeah, I think I will 
Anyway, with the experience there, it was all a matter of uploading stuff. I could figure it out pretty easily.
Although, there were things I did not understand, I figured them out by looking the issue up on Google, or better yet, searching the Lunarpages’ forums. I don’t think I’ve had a case where someone hadn’t already asked the problem I had. Which is totally great because then you already have the answer.
I’m sure you noticed that ad I put over on the navigation. Unless you started reading this first, then, well, now you know. xD What’s up with that? Well, Lunarpages is the webhost I have been using since April of ’07, so almost 3 years.
This was the other banner I had considered using, but I liked the look of the rectangular one better. It just seemed nicer, even if it doesn’t take up the whole block of red.
Anyway, I would like to share my experiences with Lunarpages. I recommend it to anyone with some web experience and who wants a great host. Although, who would want a bad one anyway?
