So, it was the end of the line for my 27″ 2011 iMac. After 7 years of service, the new OS (MacOS 10.14 “Mojave”) wasn’t going to be able to be installed on the old faithful. There’s some tech reasons for that – Apple moved to minimum standard for graphics cards for their system (they …
Fixing bad colors on 2011 iMac + MacOS Mojave (Updated)Read More »
Just got off the phone with The Wichita Eagle for an interview about how gaming has changed into something “cool” (Basic premise – there’s more too it than that.) One of my things I realized when he asked me about it, and I told him this, was that it’s actually a cyclic thing. Games have …
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Video Games Being Socially Acceptable (IE, Cool.)Read More »
Our Video Game Development Internship Program With Butler Community College IT Institute Starting March 2016, we began accepting internships through Butler Community College for video game development.  While the paperwork for the Internship that Butler provides gives some information, it’s nowhere near as in-depth as I feel it should be before someone applies for the internship, along …
Quite a while back (in tech years) I invested in an Ouya and joined the Free The Games Fund. Now, the Ouya is gone, and it’s replacement is the Forge TV. I thought I’d write down my thoughts on the new Razer Forge TV and it’s controller. It should be noted that I’m still a …
Suddenly loose your contacts after updating to iOS 7 (the final, not the betas)? Here’s a quick fix! #iOS7, #contacts
As I’m writing this, MidnightRyder.com is under continuous attack from a BotNet. Of course, you might notice that it’s still up and running just fine – there’s reasons for that, and I’m going to help you keep yours up and running, too. Not familiar with the term “BotNet”? I’ll simplify a bit here: it’s a …
Ways to Help Defend WordPress From Attackers and BotNetsRead More »
A while back I did a little hacking on iScroll 4, which I use quite a bit for PhoneGap based applications (though, it works nice for anything mobile except Windows phones. IE doesn’t like iScroll). iScroll is becoming a bit less necessary (particularly after iOS 5 was released, which made some changes to mobile Safari), …
Scrolling to specific Div (or other) ID’s with iScroll 4Read More »
10 years ago I got burned by my host. Â Almost without warning, they went out of business – I didn’t have a whole lot of time to evaluate who I wanted to move to, so I did some quick Googling. Â Well, actually, I didn’t Google it. Â At that time Alta-Vista would have been the major …
One of the disadvantages of using PhoneGap / Cordova for app development: sometimes it’s like hitting a moving target.  Not just the API, but the methodologies for projects change frequently.  It’s not bad enough to make the platform undesirable for iOS and Android development, but sometimes it makes you pull your hair out wondering why something from …
Launching External URL’s in PhoneGap… Again. (Phonegap 2.4.x)Read More »
Jetpack’s sharedaddy plugin does a great job – but sometimes it puts it’s share items in places you didn’t want them, like inside of plugins that display lists of posts. Here’s a quick fix for that 🙂
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