Codito Ergo Sum

Joshua Cyr is running a contest over at Usefulconcept.com, the winner gets a free World of Warcraft account, the burning crusade expansion, and almost 80 days of pre-paid time.  All you have to do is comment on his blog entry.  Hurry up, the content ends tonight at midnight!

Click for the WoW RIAdventure content

The questions you have to answer are:

1) List your top reason someone should go to RIAdventure.
2) List your top reason you want to try out WOW (world of warcraft).

and my answers were:

1) Because the best way to learn is to be surrounded with enthusiastic people!
2) Because my cousin wants to play on a *real* server and this would get him started out great! (I play on a free server and its good enough for me with my limited time, but he wants to be a purist)

Good luck all

In ramping up for an alpha / beta test, one of the things I was testing was speed on the server the software was to be deployed on. Running Yahoo's ySlow, it gave me all kinds of input, non g-zipped components, missing header expiration dates on my files, etc. I wanted to share here with you some of the apache vhost configuration changes I made that made the site just *fly*! I am no apache expert, so there may be different ways to do this. But I can tell you, after making these changes the site FEELS a ton faster.

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OK, I have been slacking on this series. No Justice, thats a *BAD* Justice!. I have a coldfusion product going into alpha this week after more than a year of development, so what can I say =) Now on to more C++ goodness!

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Last week we went over the basics of configuring your IDE and compiling your first program. I have class this evening, but I wanted to point you to a resource that I will be developing as I go through this class. The CfCode C++ Blog Series is basically a listing of all posts in the series, as well as an example C++ program with what I hope are good comments throughout of what is going on. In today's iteration of this example document, I go over declaring constant variables, using cin and cout to accept input and provide output respectively. I define several data types, and show you how to evaluate expressions and place the result onto the screen. This example document also introduces static_cast to force a result to a specific data type. You can always find the latest version of my example document at http://www.cfcode.net/blog/page.cfm/c-series, or you can browse back through prior posts like this one to see the code as it grows. More tonight after class!

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So last night was my 1st night of C++ class, and I want to try and pass on what I learn in a blog series. I'm a total newb as far as C++ goes, but if you want to learn as I go this may help! The majority of our first class was just intro, talking about computer basics, and only in the last 45 minutes or so did we really get into coding, and we did a simple 'display some output' app.

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After about 10 minutes of playing, here are my initial thoughts in a nutshell: Chrome is FAST!  Gmail and google docs are lightning quick.  Starting a new tab has a very opera-like quick start (only this is automatically created as you use the browser).  Each tab shows up in windows as its own process under task manager (request:  stick part of the URL there so we can nuke one by name!).  The interface is un-obtrusive, imported all my firefox settings and favorites just fine, and renders the pages I have tested it on just fine.  I like it, will be using it as a daily browser here for the future, and will let you know how it goes!  Mac fans will just have to hold onto their macbooks, this is a windows only release so far, but you will get yours some day =)

*edited* - Check out the html / style inspector (right click anything in the page, choose inspect element)  - you can view the derived styles, and edit the html in-line and see the changes as you make them.  Super sweet!

*edit* OK, I keep finding cool goodies.  Right click the task bar for chrome, and choose 'task manager'.  You get a window with each tab, the memory and CPU that each tab is taking up,  and even the network usage of that tab (how awesome is that).  The rabbit hole gets deeper though, click 'stats for nerds' to get a very detailed memory page.  Go google go, appeal to us techies, I love it! =)

*edit* OK, it has not been an hour of use yet, but its now my default browser =)