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From the The Chutry Experiment

The rules are:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

Ok, mine is:

“The result of an if-then-else operation is the result of either the OCL expression in the then clause or the OCL expression in the else clause, depending on the result of the boolean expression in the if clause.”

That probably says a lot about me…

I wrote about rolling your own server logs awhile back, but it only occurred to me while at the GDC that by updating the .htaccess file I can redirect 404 errors to my own PHP document that will display the 404 error and also log when misdirections occur at my site (since the requested document is in the GET request). Click To Read More...

Friday we went to our final GDC session entitled “Attack of the Design Direcors”. The talk was given by Brian Allgeier, the Design Director on the “Ratchet & Clank” games. While enlightening, it was also very entertaining. Click To Read More...

We attended another session at 5:30 PM Thursday regarding Hollywood production companies. The speaker drew some interesting parallels to the movie industry of the 1920s and how the business model eventually changed such that the major Hollywood studios “farm” their productions/films out to production companies. The speaker also suggested that eventually we will probably see the video game industry shift towards this model. Click To Read More...

We attended the last half of the “State of the Mobile Games Industry” discussion this morning at the GDC. Most of the members on the panel had a lot of cogent points to think about. Click To Read More...

Well, we got into Oakland, CA a little late tonight (about 11 PM PST). At the Dollar Car Rental desk, I somehow managed to sweet-talk the 60-year old Asian man into getting us a better car (a PT-Cruiser instead of a Dodge Neon). Uhhh…I guess it’s time to recalibrate my “sweet talking” skills… Click To Read More...

Well, we’re heading off to San Francisco and the GDC today. I found out at the last minute that Enterprise Rental Car was only open until 10 PM so I had to switch things over to Dollar, which is open 24 hours (and costs about $30 more).

Anyway, blogging may be relegated to a secondary task for the next few days, but then again I’d like to be able to blog about my experience in “real-time” so we’ll see how that goes.