i work with computers

It’s been on my mind a lot more as of late, “I’ve always wanted to develop games, but, is it a possible business venture in West Michigan?”  And when I think about it, I don’t want to be a company that pumps out BeJeweled clones, or, 32 card-games in one.  I’d be more interested in [...]

In my quest to try out new technologies (Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Lucene.Net, etc) I took the advice of a few friends and internet buzz and began work with NHibernate a few months back.  I was trying to emulate something we had setup at Spout.com that was using another, custom framework.
I started out by [...]

I threw it out to Twitter moments ago, but thought I’d write up the deets here.   I’m looking for an online, serial/cd-key storage site where I can log in, and store all the cd-keys that I own, similar to online password managers.  It’d be nice to categorize them, etc, and be able to even text [...]

[UPDATE 1.15.2009] http://iworkwithcomputers.com/2009/01/15/fallout-3new-web-based-terminal-hacker-helper-2/
I’ve been playing a lot of Fallout 3 lately, and it’s every bit as good as Oblivion and then some (Oblivion + Guns = Crazy Delicious).  My character isn’t all that good at computer-terminal hacking, so I decided to create a little Ruby script to help me out.  The script asks for all [...]

[UPDATE 1.15.2009] http://iworkwithcomputers.com/2009/01/15/fallout-3new-web-based-terminal-hacker-helper-2/
[Update]Click here for updated info and download.
I’ve been playing a lot of Fallout 3 lately, and it’s every bit as good as Oblivion and then some (Oblivion + Guns = Crazy Delicious). My character isn’t all that good at computer-terminal hacking, so I decided to create a little Ruby script to help [...]

As of yesterday, I decided it was high-time I check out what the hub-bub was all about conerning Ruby on Rails.  I did a Google search for “ruby on rails osx” and found a document on Apple’s dev site, found here.  Downloading and updating the compents was a breeze via the command prompt, and that [...]

(Link to Part 1)
Since my first post, I’ve been tinkering a bit more with Lucene.Net.  I’ve added a few more columns to index, determined that a SimpleAnalyzer would fit my needs by tokenizing every word by not removing “stop words”, and I’ve created a Windows Service to do a multi-threaded index of my 350,106 rows [...]

I signed up for MobileMe as soon as I got my iPhone 3G home back in July.  I liked the concept, and thought I’d take advantage of the 60-day free trial before dropping 100-large for a year’s subscription.  As time went on, I really didn’t use any of the features, but, I left it alone [...]