My kids ask me all kinds of bizarre questions.
As I was doing research for a presentation I gave at the Login conference earlier this year, I discovered a bit of information that even put a quizzical look on my children’s faces.
how many cows go into the running of an MMO?
It sounds bizarre, but this is [...]
Aug
10
2009
10
2009
How many cows are in an MMO?
May
19
2009
19
2009
Bring up an MMO in notime…
I, still, hate disk drives.
After waiting for the umpteenth time for my system to finish twiddeling it’s disk drive, I had a wayback,
a flashback, Way back in the day, one of my my first jobs was managing a network of Sun diskful and diskless workstations, all connected to a Sun 4110.
diskless install and boot was [...]
May
16
2008
16
2008
Asset Management Metaphore #1 The Library
I deal with production pipelines and production asset management systems all the time. I’ve come up with a couple metaphore’s I like.
Asset Management library metaphor
An asset management system is a lot like a library. Artists and Engineers create assets, like books, and then deposit them into the library. Once the assets are in the library, [...]
May
16
2007
16
2007
Setting up debugging with Eclipse and Tomcat
Setting up debugging with Eclipse and Tomcat
Specific instructions fo rEclipse 3.0.1 and Tomcat 5.0.28
Preface: make sure you have a complete environment setup:
install jdk 1.4.2 (this is the version that will support tomcat 5.0.28)
install eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ (version 3.0.1)
install tomcat http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html
(I’m using 5.0.28 wich supports servlet spec 2.4)
install tomcat plugin for eclipsehttp://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatPlugin.html
by simply copying the contents of the zip [...]