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Started working on my first game, Average Bob Space Adventure. Currently following tutorials by Friendlycosmonaut and they’ve been incredibly helpful. Luckily Game Maker Language has a similar syntax to PHP so it’s been pretty easy to pick up.

If you want to follow Bob’s progress check the GitHub repository.

Posted during the storm, you guys rock!

Good luck guys!

Like some young men, my father was a big influencer on my career path. I started with web design, but quickly realized without logic my projects would essentially be useless. A few months later I was writing basic PHP and cutting up WordPress themes on a regular basis.

Today, 6 years later,  quite comfortable with PHP but feel like as though it’s getting a bum deal being a dynamic language an all. With projects like HHVM chugging away, I’m looking for other ways to bridge the gap between PHP and C.

Having never written any C before, I quickly realized it was quite needy. I decided to try out BinaryPHP, it quickly converts your PHP into source and compiles an executable for you.

For those who are curious, you can grab all sources from github.

https://github.com/carmelosantana/doge-php-c

This is something I’ve been having some difficulties with the past few months. I tend to program in cycles, I have some very productive times, followed by a null in development and overall creativity. In the past I relied heavily on yoga to help reduce the impact these lulls had on my overall person. More recently mountain biking had taken that role, however my season ended shortly with a broken wrist after I took a spill into some rocks.

With that lull right around the corner, and my wrist still not 100%, I was hoping to take a new approach to my lack of output. I’m wrapping up, ending or getting involved in new projects. In other words, I’m taking some of this time where “I should be productive” and applying that energy to simpler tasks, saying good bye to old projects, and hello to new ones. Its less about being extremely productive, but more about addressing some minor issues on my to do.

Somethings on my lull list:

• installing HHVM
• cleaning up messy apache virtual hosts
• writing a few blog posts
• adding comments or setup Disqus
• do something with my site

So here it goes – in a bit of a lull at the moment. I’m in the midst of addressing 2 of those items. Heres to a slightly different approach.

 

Edit 1:

It’s common to see some motivational crap on hacker news, with that being said I came across this gem earlier this morning.

Life is a game. This is your strategy guide

 

I was initially drawn in by attractive pixel art, but needless to say I think OP forgot to write the strategy part. “Cute post man.”

 

Edit 2:

Here’s a more useful article. Linux monitoring, thanks hacker news.

 

Edit 3:

I managed to wipe my apache config on my development server while performing a few mundane updates. That seems to be another item complete.

Welcome to blah blah! Another WordPress installation. Testing this old school MySpace layout. Currently everything seems to be running well, 6 post types via JSON array later, and no complaints so far.