Monthly Archives: October 2004

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

The internet is a strange, wonderful thing. I was in high school when I first heard of Bryan O’Malley–or Mal, as he’s most popularly known as. He was active online: he helped run various anime art communities like the now-defunct FAHQ and internet comic forrays like Impromanga, while continually honing his skills as a comic book artist and illustrator. Back then, pursuing a career in comics seemed like a faraway fantasy–something you strive for, always hoping, but never thinking it would actually come true. I put down my pencil long ago and settled in the world of graphic and web design and never looked back. But Bryan kept on drawing Read more »

How to Ask Smart Questions

Anyone who’s a member of help forum or mailing list know that people ask the dumbest questions. From Java forums to PHP mailing lists to any help-related website — none are safe from stupid questions. I could very well be the last person to come across this, but I had to post a link to Eric Raymond’s and Rick Moen’s guide on How to Ask Questions the Smart Way. The document is linked to on many forums, websites, and mailing lists as a guide to asking good questions in order to get good answers. Among the gems in the guide: Choose your forum carefully Use meaningful, specific subject headers Write Read more »

JSP Set Up Guide for Windows

Kevin Yank’s SitePoint article, JSP Quick-Start Guide for Windows, seems to be a pretty good guide to getting a system set up for starting JSP development. According to Yank, the guide is somewhat aimed toward developers that focus on design, but like to dabble in scripting. Setting up a server environment to develop and test JSPs can be a confusing task, especially since most of the documents written to guide users through the process are steeped in technical mumbo jumbo that assumes you already know JSP inside and out. If you’re just getting started with JSPs, you want a step-by-step guide to getting a server up and running in short Read more »

Grand Theftendo – Port of GTA III to 8-bit NES

Grand Theftendo – Port of GTA III to 8-bit NES

“Grand Theftendo”:http://www.grandtheftendo.com/ is a port of Grand Theft Auto III for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is Grand Theft Auto III running on an 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely in 6502 Assembly Language! It includes the entire Portland city! Unbelievable! Brian is porting the entire Portland City from Grand Theft Auto III (the PS2 version) into a homebrew game that runs on the original NES. All of the original missions from the PS2 version of GTA III will be included as well. He wrote his own compiler, map editor, graphics tool, a road editor, a message editor, Read more »

HugeURL

Do the ladies ever make fun of your small URL? They may say size doesn’t matter but we all know it does. You just aren’t a man unless you have a huge URL. Luckily there is help for those of us with “Tiny URL’s”:http://tinyurl.com/. “HugeURL.com”:http://hugeurl.com/ can take your small or average-sized URL, and with the help of all natural herbal supplements, increase your URL length by at least 200%! The best part of the deal? It’s totally free! Ladies, don’t feel left out. HugeURL can also increase the size of your URLs by at least several letters. It’s not uncommon for URLs to increase from yoururl.com/a to yoururl.com/DD almost instantly, Read more »