Binary Fortress Software

24 Hour Countdown

15. March 2007

Well, the time is near. I leave in around 24 hours from now, and I’ll gone for about 2 weeks. That means I will be unavailable to respond to forum posts and emails. If you need help with something, I’m not ignoring you, I’m just going to be “detached” from this hi-tech [...]

The Adventure: Part 2

9. March 2007

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My buddy that I’m going to the UK with, Steve, sent me this picture of one of the mountains we’ll be visiting. I’ve been hoping that the weather will start to get warmer, now that it’s March, but I guess things are different around the mountains. This picture was taken on February 26th, [...]

New Site Layout

8. March 2007

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In an attempt to reduce bandwidth usage, and to speed up page loading, I have switched to a “lighter” theme. It has far less images on the main page (20ish compared with 40ish) than the old theme used to. The overall main page size has dropped from around 400 KB to about 225 [...]

Anonymous Forum Posting is No More

7. March 2007

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Thanks to spam, I have decided to disable anonymous forum posting. Deleting all the spam every few hours was getting to be a real pain, so this was my only option. I really like the idea of anonymous posting as it encourages people to post on the forums who wouldn’t normally, because they [...]

TownRenowned Server Migration

4. March 2007

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Andy and I have been hard at work over the last couple weeks migrating TownRenowned from MS SQL 2005 to MySQL v5.0. Let me tell you, this was a painful experience. It wasn’t necessarily difficult, just very time consuming. There are enough differences between the 2 SQL servers to generate subtle bugs, [...]

I Enjoy Funny Dinosaurs

2. March 2007

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I haven’t seen a comic this funny in quite some time. Here’s a small taste of what your funny bone can expect: I have started a new screenplay, based on the Structured Query Language for databases! It’s called… “UPDATE bodies SET status=’dead’” Good grief, that’s funny stuff… so why are you still here? Go and [...]