Forum thread about 《仙剑江湖OL》, still very orz

This online game is seriously strong — it might just make it big. After all, all kinds of wild, offbeat ideas can be openly explored and built out here. And the dev team’s bold exploration and fearless attitude will make this game grow fast.

Video Games

Just finished watching "Jumper"

Finally saw Jumper, which I’d been looking forward to. Disappointed — the plot is a mess, zero logic. Then again, it was always going to be a surreal movie.

Entertainment

Why so many 囧s?《仙剑江湖OL》

Check out the hilarious online games - http://www.i397.com/html/wangyouxinwen/20080706/517.html The most embarrassing knockoff online game in history: “Xianjian Jianghu OL” The knockoff crowd has really infiltrated every corner of our lives. Knockoff phones, knockoff MP3 players, knockoff PSPs, knockoff Wiis are all the rage, and now knockoff online games have even appeared—of course, they must be made by Chinese developers.

Video Games

Good book

I’ve been reading 《大话设计模式》 lately. It really is a great entry-level book on design patterns—plain and accessible, explaining deep ideas in simple terms. You get a feel for the great wisdom embedded in the evolution of design, and for the scenes in the joys and frustrations of a programmer’s life that are worth reliving again and again.

Personal

How to fix session_start() errors in PHP

I’m not doing .net for now — I’ve gotten interested in PHP, so I’m learning PHP while working on it. There are a shocking number of baffling things in the beginner stage; good thing I was mentally prepared. Last night I ran into a problem: in PHP, session_start() always threw an error: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at D:wwwrootEZineTest.php:1) in D:wwwrootEZineTest.php on line 1 I searched all over the web and found three explanations and fixes for it:

Backend Server

It's not a rumor! Diablo 3 is already out~

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/ Just go straight to the official site — it’s seriously exciting!

Video Games

Come on, brother computer, do us proud!

After getting home, I finished putting together the computer I use at school. The day before yesterday I was using it at home when the mouse suddenly died — the scroll wheel lost its scrolling function for no reason and turned into a free-spinning wheel… I swapped in the old mouse from home, and it worked. ^_^ Yesterday morning, the mouse pad was so dusty that the optical sensor couldn’t track properly, so I tossed the mouse pad off to the side to cool down. Yesterday evening, the replacement mouse died too — the wheel rolled, the left and right buttons clicked, but it wouldn’t move. Looked like it had been hit with a paralysis spell… No choice — I went out that night and bought a new mouse…

Personal

Fixing the Fanfou AIR Client "Acting Up" Issue

Ever since I added the minimize-to-tray feature last time, I’ve been hearing about one “freak-out” paranormal event after another — you type in your own username and password, and the login info th...

Works

FLASH tutorial website completed

Today, the last day of June, I finally finished the Baobao task ^_^ Happy~ Even though it was ASP work, I still came away with some experience. For the next month I’m going all-in on developing the...

Personal

Funny keyword search

Whoa — today I was looking at my site’s traffic analytics report, and one of the search keywords was “air FileStream, there’s an example of reading and writing Xml”. I was baffled: someone searchin...

Personal

Diablo 3 demo video

Another even more exciting video has surfaced! The game looks a lot like . The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. I hope it turns out far better than Titan Quest, though I do...

Video Games

I'm home

I plan to wrap up Baobao’s online testing system quickly, and hurry up to build out the e-magazine system backend and other features! Along the way, XFlvPlayer, and if I have time, rewrite the Fanf...

Personal

Bill Gates officially retires

At 12:00 Beijing time on June 27, 2008 (00:00 US Eastern Time on June 27), Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates officially retired today. Related reports: Bill Gates officially retires For det...

Other

Sharing Practical Code for Minimizing an AIR App to the System Tray (Windows)

Fanfou 1.7 released, sharing part of the code for the newly added minimize-to-system-tray feature:

Flash

AIR apps and the taskbar, system tray, Dock

Reflection: I was too lazy — too lazy to check the official docs for how to minimize to the tray. As it turns out, AIR had this designed in all along. See the official AIR document DEV_GUIDE_FLASH, <Chapter 13: Taskbar icons>. Let me study it now, and put together a Chinese doc along the way to atone. Overview: About taskbar iconsMany operating systems provide a taskbar where applications can display a small icon representing themselves. ADOBE AIR exposes an interface for interacting with an application’s taskbar icon through the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon property. AIR creates the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon object automatically. The type of this object is either SystemTrayIcon or DockIcon, depending on the operating system.

Flash