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All reviewsDivinity: Original Sin2014
4 out of 5 starsHey everybody, it's Tuuuuuuuesday! Can I ask you why you're saying 'booty'? Gimme that horsey sauce. No one had to eat any legs on Saturday, so that was good. This Quick Look is over! No one should ever put clothes on a shark. Yeah, you like getting it both ways, don't you? Being there, and then all of the sudden, poop floats up, hits the surface. I want you to go to hell. Brad values pixel density above perhaps…
1943: The Battle of Midway1987
4 out of 5 starsYour review must be at least 100 words long. Use clear, easy-to-follow language whenever possible. Remember: Your words may be the words that sway a reader into buying or avoiding this product. So act responsibly! Remember that there's an entire wiki page that should already be full of story details and other facts about the product you're reviewing. We welcome full-on professional reviews, but if you're interested…
Super Monday Night Combat2012
3 out of 5 starsI played as the tank and the skinny ninja guy kept judo throwing me to the ground. So lame. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla suscipit dapibus nunc, consequat suscipit urna aliquam sagittis. Duis diam libero, cursus fringilla condimentum at, faucibus et quam. Sed vulputate blandit aliquam. Aliquam at massa et urna imperdiet semper. Sed rhoncus diam et sem elementum id tempor turpis…
Tera2011
3 out of 5 starsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet augue diam. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. In nec condimentum urna. Sed et justo velit, vitae feugiat turpis. Ut dignissim nulla sit amet libero convallis ac dapibus sapien pharetra. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Suspendisse…
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Jan 29, 2016
When you're a one-man show, stuff happens in real life that slows your roll. I came down with the flu that knocked me out for a week. I promptly forgot the system in Laravel which put me back at step 1. This past week, I have been watching a lot of the videos on Laracast.com to familiarize myself with it once again. Hopefully, I'll have a more substantial update in the next blog.
Setting up the local environment
Jan 9, 2016
These are notes of how I set up my local environment. I am developing on a Mac, all commands are for the terminal. vi /etc/hosts added in an entry pointing the new site to my localhost ex: 127.0.0.1 www.dev.newsite.com will ask for password when saving an updated host file install composer - https://getcomposer.org/download/ install laravel - https://laravel.com/docs/5.2 brew update brew doctor...
Infrastructure
Jan 5, 2016
Originally, I had planned to go with PHP7 , Symfony3 and MySQL . Giant Bomb is currently using PHP5.6, Symfony 2.6 and MySQL. My thoughts were that I would build the pops site on the newer versions of the work tech and bring back the knowledge I gained to the group. But, on the recommendation of a co-worker, I decided to go with Laravel . It's a lightweight framework based off of Symfony. Symfo...
New Year, New Goal
Jan 1, 2016
I am a developer for Giant Bomb , GameSpot and Comic Vine . I started off at CNET around August 2006 doing QA for GameSpot , TV.com and MP3.com . I did that for a number of years and then transitioned to becoming an developer around the time of the Giant Bomb rewrite. I could update on what I am currently doing, but you probably don't want to hear what I work on. I work in the dark shadows maki...
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