Today we just finished up our second day of play testing. Our goal over the past two days was to play test social and MMORPG games so that we can get a sense of the design and the best components of each to implement in our own game. Some of the games that I play tested included Stronghold Kingdoms, WoW, several Facebook games, and Starforge. I believe we now have a good handle on the type of game we will be creating as well. Tomorrow we plan to answer specific questions on the games we have bee ...

Today we just finished up the rough drafts for the individual papers that needed to be accomplished. In addition to this we did a bullet summary and a chart for each question as well. The goal within the next day is to have the information looked over for critique, then edit the document based on this critique. Using this finished document it should be ready for Red Hat by the end of the week. For next week we plan on using our research to start solidifying the goals we want accomplish from thi ...

Today we just started digging into what direction we want to go in for the game and what we want to accomplish this summer. This week we set up a good start for our research. I personally got my blog up, got connected to the irc, and joined github. In addition to this I did substantial research on balancing for our game and aided others on their research. We plan to continue working on this research for the rest of the week and have a solid rough draft of the game design document by that time. ...

Crafting a Useful Message in 140 Characters or Less * Be Clear * Be Direct * Be Selective * Be Informative * Be Timely * Be Consistent * Be Tactful # Be Clear ## Use complete phrasing as much as possible Most followers will forgive you for changing words like 'to' to '2' and 'your' to 'ur,' so long as the rest of message is effectively conveyed. Avoid this practice unless absolutely necessary--which in truth can be quite often. The more it is obvious that without making the ...

> My New Year's resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012! Join me This testimony via tweet was just one of hundreds of thousands of people who made their 2012 New Year's Resolution to learn how to write code. This one person, however, just so happens to be be NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ...

Video streaming by Ustream Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard held a press conference May 2nd to announce edX. edX is "a joint partnership to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learner ...

I have been using my laptop for a while now for development on Empathy. Since my laptop is running Fedora 16, there is less libraries that need compiling in order to run the latest git empathy. But like any project dependencies are updated on occasion. It just so happens that the GTK+ dependency for Emapthy got updated fairly recently, so when I pulled the latest code, my GTK+ library needed recompiling. Eh, didn't seem like a big deal, compiled fine 1 minor version ago, so I figured it would be ...

So, now that I have been hacking away, here is what I am working on. The first aspect of setting up a Sugar App is parsing some command line arguments. The arguments help configure the app so that the Sugar Framework can properly interface between the App and the X server. Or something like that. These arguments are: ` -b, --bundle-id Identifier of the activity bundle. Must be made available as window property. -a, --activity-id Unique identifier of the activity instance. Must be made av ...

A patch for Empathy Its been a while since I have had time to post a blog entry with any real substance - Mid terms and projects can be brutal on your time. But that's essentially over now so I thought I would describe my current set up for playing with sugar and Empathy. Obviously development of software on an XO would be quite painful. The developers over at Sugar Labs were awesome enough to make Sugar run on essentially any Linux platform with X. So, now that [VM](http://foss.rit.edu/node/ ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 04/19/2012 - 12 00am

Timezone US/Eastern

The 140 Characters Conference Syracuse will be taking place on April 19, 2012 in Schine Student Center, on the campus of Syracuse University.

Our very own Remy DeCausemaker will be giving a talk at 3 15pm entitled ...