http://www.topofcool.com Your tongues can't repel taste of this magnitude! Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:56:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I'm watching the Diablo 3 gameplay video, right now. I can honestly say I wasn't super excited about Diablo 3. I haven't been eagerly anticipating it since I pretty much had played out Diablo 2 for a couple years after it was released. Good times... Very much like Starcraft 2, ... http://www.topofcool.com/2008/06/oh-man-i-love-sameness/ "Could you please leave us alone? We're trying to have a LARP rehearsal, here!" http://www.topofcool.com/2008/06/wow-insider-caption-this/ I've been playing a lot of WoW lately, and I noticed some interesting statistics, courtesy of Xfire. First off, World of Warcraft has been the #1 game played by Xfire users for 1002 days. (I'm sure today will make 1003.) It appears that an average of 88,926 users have been playing an ... http://www.topofcool.com/2008/06/some-world-of-warcraft-statistics/ Corvus over at Man Bytes Blog has issued the following meme discussion: You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have: one weapon. one song blasting on the speakers. one famous person to fight alongside you This is so easy. 1. The trusty Halberd. Corvus's shovel is definitely a good choice, but I think ... http://www.topofcool.com/2008/06/zombie-attack/ I had an issue where my CakePHP app (which was part of a larger webapp) was setting its own cookie_path for '/cakeapp', which was the location of Cake. Meanwhile, the session for the general app, with cookie_path at '/' was also setting up its own session. So, I needed Cake ... http://www.topofcool.com/2008/05/how-to-set-the-session-path-for-cakephp-sessions/ I gave my presentation at 9am this morning. It seemed to go pretty well. There were probably about a dozen people there. Felt like I did a good job of introducing CakePHP.  After, listened to a presentation on using memcached with MySQL. Very interesting. I've never really even thought about memcached ... http://www.topofcool.com/2008/05/minnebar-progress-so-far/ Just put my name down for MinneBar. Since, this is my first time attending MinneBar (or any barcamp, for that matter) I'll be putting together a presentation on building a simple CMS for CakePHP. I'm kinda nervous, but it should be a lot of fun. http://www.topofcool.com/2008/05/minnebar-ho/ For those that are wondering, I'm still here. Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 which is pretty hawt. I'm still writing over at Aeropause.com for those that are wondering. I also co-host a podcast over at talkingaboutgames.com. It's called the Post Game Report and is a podcast that reports on community goings-ons ... http://www.topofcool.com/2008/04/still-here/ I decided to upgrade my Wordpress to 2.2. Boy, was that a mistake. NONE of the themes I had customized are compatible with 2.2, it seems, so I'm stuck with this generic-looking crapfest until I get around to cobbling something else together. http://www.topofcool.com/2007/05/excuse-the-dust/ It's nothing new. It's been happening as long as I can remember. If you've used the internet at all you've noticed. Perhaps, you've even been part of the problem. Patch whining. It happens almost every day for every single patch release for every single game that has a message board. The latest, ... http://www.topofcool.com/2007/01/patch-whiners-an-epidemic/