Category Archives: software

And we’re back…

Posted on July 3, 2021 by aroth

Some things I’ve learned recently-ish, over the past couple years or so: Don’t assume that SSD’s won’t/can’t fail. When buying an SSD, check what controller it uses and then get on Google to see how many data recovery providers claim … Continue reading →

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Matchbook – Multi-platform Realtime Gaming

Posted on January 26, 2014 by aroth

Have you ever thought that it would be cool if you could build a cross-platform or multi-platform game and connect from one platform to another without having to do all the heavy lifting with respect to matchmaking, communications, and related … Continue reading →

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[iOS] Jira Mobile Connect

Posted on November 4, 2011 by aroth

Not long ago Atlassian released version 1.0 (now up to 1.0.7) of their Jira Mobile Connect plugin. This is a plugin for Jira (obviously) that aims to simplify testing, error-reporting, and feedback collection/management for iOS applications. Assuming that you are … Continue reading →

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Natural Scrolling Isn’t

Posted on July 23, 2011 by aroth

Mac users and other developers such as myself who have no choice but to use a Mac for certain projects will already know what I’m talking about. For everyone else, however, the newest version of OS X includes a most … Continue reading →

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[Java] URL Rewriting on Tomcat (or any other servlet container)

Posted on June 7, 2011 by aroth

Here is a very nice little utility I found recently on an unfortunately very difficult to navigate website. In case it’s not immediately apparent from that site what I am referring to, I’m talking about the ‘UrlRewriteFilter‘ utility featured near … Continue reading →

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Portal 2

Posted on April 23, 2011 by aroth

For anyone that hasn’t noticed, Portal 2 was released a few days ago. I’ve already played through the single-player portion of the game (the only portion that I’m interested in, to be honest), and thought I would write up a … Continue reading →

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Introducing Webcomix

Posted on March 19, 2011 by aroth

I wanted to take a brief moment to invite anyone who stumbles across this post to beta-test my latest personal project; Webcomix. Webcomix is a simple web-comic aggregation service that allows you to read a number of different comics on … Continue reading →

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Code Formatting Plugin Updated

Posted on January 29, 2011 by aroth

I’ve just updated the code formatting/syntax highlighting plugin used by this site to the very cool Syntax Highlighter Evolved. This plugin is a marked improvement over the previous plugin, providing such niceties as automatic non-copyable line numbers, horizontal scrolling, built-in … Continue reading →

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Working FLAC and Vorbis Support in Windows Media Player

Posted on January 28, 2011 by aroth

Hot off the heels of the “SMOOTH Processor” debacle, I’m faced with the task of reapplying one of my favorite Windows 7 configuration tweaks. Namely, the addition of FLAC (and also Vorbis, Speex, and so on) support to Windows Media … Continue reading →

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Apache + PHP = Headache

Posted on January 24, 2011 by aroth

Fresh out of installing and configuring Apache and PHP so that I could get this WordPress blog up and running, I feel there’s a topic worthy of some brief mention here.  Namely, the proper (which I mean not in the … Continue reading →

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