Brian Jepson’s Weblog

This should be interesting.

Joey deVilla: “at the June 2006 RailsConf, which had a number of the thought leaders in new-school web development in attendance, the DS was the second-most popular machine there, just behind Mac notebooks and ahead of Wintel laptops”

I’m going to be running the Providence Geeks table at AS220’s Foo Fest (not to be confused with FOO), an all-day free block party in downtown Providence tomorrow (Saturday, July 15th 2006). It starts at 12am and goes late, so you have all day to check it out. I’ll probably have the table up until 5pm or so, and I’ll be giving away copies of Retro Gaming Hacks to people who can make high scores in whatever retro games I happen to have set up!

Liza Daly: “If you are a COBOL fan, you will love this language, and if you are not, the main thing you should know is that Inform 7 does not suck. It can do real work in a novel way.”

I did a video on the Vectrex and one on the Hasbro Zoombox for Make this week. 

If you’re going out to the Maker Faire, be sure to drop by the Hacks booth and say howdy. I’ll be bringing some goodies related to a few of our hacks books, and there will be plenty of toys you can mess around with.

As C.K. found out, PSP Hacks is in print, and it won’t be long before it’s in a bookstore near you. Check out the, uh, Sample hacks to read all about the cool ways you can mess with your PSP. This is the third gaming book I’ve had the pleasure to edit recently: Halo 2 Hacks and Retro Gaming Hacks are also a lot of fun.

Casey Chesnut: “they just point to a torn sign that says
they are out of stock”

Stephen Cawood, author of Halo 2 Hacks (which I had the honor and pleasure of editing): “modding is not the same as cheating.”