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marcus

marcus has written 107 posts for MetaverseDeveloper

PlayLegions.com - Strategic FPS Tutorial and Timetrails

Fallen Empire: Legions is a strategic FPS+Z shooter, the spiritual successor to the Starsiege: Tribes series, and a blast to play.
Although the full game is (at least currently) located at instantaction.com, the new playlegions.com site offers a brief single player tutorial, in a very Portal'esque fashion to teach basic movement skills, which are all but; […]

NBC17 News engages audience with Twitter

In what may be a TV station's first, NBC17 is using Twitter to gather feedback from the local community in the greater Raleigh, NC area. I was fortunate enough to be included in this experiment, although I was unaware how my tweets were going to be used.
@MyNC, mync.com's twitter presence, asked about pay as you […]

Less or Equal in Erlang

Just noticed that Erlang does not understand <=, it requires it to be =<.

HP Mini 1000 - Where is the VGA Adapter?

I've been eying netbooks for a while now. In particular, the HP Mini 1000 seems to be a good candidate. I've seen it in person and I like it. It has a decent keyboard, full size right-hand shift key, it's pretty to look at, and the price is about right. But there's one thing stopping […]

Logging in users via Zend_Auth without Sessions in PHP / Zend Framework

While sessions come in handy for many things, I like to avoid them for the sake of scalability. PHP itself uses a shared-nothing architecture, with only sessions needing special treatment.
Once you've got more than one web server, your options are to either use a custom session handler, a load balancer with IP affinity, the commercial […]