Things I've learned » Technology http://rtharp.com/blog Hello friends and lovers! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:46:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Is Growl malware? http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=53 http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=53#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:45:49 +0000 Ryan Tharp http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=53 I think growl is malware. I don't even remember explicitly installing it and now they want money.

]]> http://rtharp.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=53 0 “In Context” IDE http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=47 http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=47#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:42:24 +0000 Ryan Tharp http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=47 Talking to a friend of mine today. He brought up the concept of in-context interactions where the user isn't given an option to fail. Where I recognized the pattern. I realized he was applying to a programming IDE concept. This is definitely something to look at.

]]> http://rtharp.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=47 0 WordPress http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=42 http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=42#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:00:58 +0000 Ryan Tharp http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=42 Recently I've found WordPress a very useful tool for prototyping content for websites and developing the relationships between website projects. I recently created a new blog, CWA Labs and upgrade the Cortex Games website to WordPress.

The good:

  • Administration interface is simple. I love how simple it is. Very powerful. A couple minor things I'd change but again I'm just prototyping here.
  • Widgets. Loving the widgets. Custom HTML, built-in RSS. Social Media.
  • Well organized code and structure.

The Bad:

  • Theme and design integration is frustrating and not as simple as it could be. Maybe this is a problem I can help solve in the future. I've ended up using the same design for Cortex as this site because I can't find anything desirable nor do I want to build a new one for a prototype.
Recently I've set up a copy of WordPress to utilize ObjectForm's database wrapper to much success. Already can see gains. Maybe there's more WordPress stuff in my future.
]]> http://rtharp.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=42 0 Data partitioning http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=18 http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=18#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:00:21 +0000 Ryan Tharp http://rtharp.com/blog/?p=18 So I had yet another Windows server die on me. While I was rebuilding a new machine to take it places, I realized how important it is to separate the data from the operating system. So I can easily put the data drive into another machine and bring the services back online. Or I can just nuke the OS drive and rebuild it.

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