This, from Chris Anderson: The Codex is a 20 episode series of machinimas made on Xboxes running Halo 2. The result caught the attention of his six- and eight-year-old children, and then him.
Machinimas are computer animated in real-time, using video games to create the environment, and human āpuppeteersā to drive the action. The action [...]
Posted November 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Technology. Tags: animation, anti-hollywood, chris anderson, codex, computer animation, film, film production, halo, halo 2, hollywood, long tail, longtail, machinima, puppeteers, the codex, videogame, xbox. 4 Comments.
I wrote bsuite_speedcache to reduce the number of database queries I was executing per page load. By implementing it on some of the content in my sidebar, I dropped 35 queries for each cache hit. That might not seem like much, but it should average about 525 queries per minute that that my host server [...]
Posted October 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: bsuite, bsuite_speedcache, cache, cache hit, codex, database, database caching, database optimization, database performance, database queries, mysql, mysql caching, mysql optimization, mysql performance, mysql queries, wordpress, wordpress optimization, wordpress performance, wordpress performance optimization, wordpress plugin. 4 Comments.
Theme change not yet complete, but looking good. It’s a widened version of Clemens Orth’s Relaxation_3column, itself a derivitive of John Wrana’s two columned Relaxation theme. I found it on the WordPress Codex, and though it was among the first group I looked at, I dutifully clicked through to every other three-columned theme listed there.
Anyway, [...]
Posted May 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Warren. Tags: codex, derivitive, relaxation, theme, upgrade, wordpress. 3 Comments.
WordPress’s XML-RPC support looks pretty good. Heck, it supports a half dozen APIs and works well with ecto … except for tag support, which is my only complaint with it so far.
The Movable Type API supports a ākeywordsā field that I’m thinking can be hijacked as a ātagsā field instead, but while ecto sends the [...]
Posted May 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: api, codex, ecto, plugin, tag, tags, xml, xml-rpc. 3 Comments.