In the eyes of Robin Monks

Thoughts on the “Boundless Summer Challenge”

Robin Monks — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:48:29 +0000

Image via Wikipedia In relation to this “Boundless Summer Challenge” going around on Facebook… I personally take issue with “challenges” like this; because they can give the wrong impression that our Salvation is works based. It’s not. And, we shouldn’t be focusing on that, or bribing folks with the far-off chance of some prize for living [...]

Podhurl Inc. Needs Vector Artist for Project

Robin Monks — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:17:23 +0000

Image via Wikipedia If you are a vector artist looking for a small project, Podhurl Inc may have something right up your alley: Podhurl Inc. is seeking a talented vector artist to design game elements in the style of several popular card games. The artist would need to create a unified, modern style and produce vector resources [...]

Version 1.6 of Add Another Module for Drupal Released

Robin Monks — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:01:28 +0000

Add another module has been recently updated with another new time-saving feature; you can now display “Add another” tabs on certain node types. I’m also taking the time to think of what else can be done to make the usual node creation workflow easier for end users. I’ll be looking for suggestions on how to improve the [...]

You want engie improvements? I got yer engie improvements!

Robin Monks — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:22 +0000

Recently after reading Valve’s blog post on how engie updates in Team Fortress 2 hadn’t been going as planned; I started thinking about what I, as the stereotypical Engineer class player, would like to see happen to my class. One of the biggest annoyances to me personally is that there are common places in every map where, well, you basically [...]

Microsoft’s Browser Selection + User Ignorance Lets Google’s Chrome “cheat”?

Robin Monks — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:11:41 +0000

Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft's browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. "I've a hypothesis to explain Chrome's recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google...."

Europeans Get a Taste of the Browser Choice Screen

Robin Monks — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:59:31 +0000

We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather [...]

Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitoes

Robin Monks — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:50:36 +0000

via rss.slashdot.org I so, totally, want one of these….badly.

Setting up a Google Nexus One in Canada on Rogers/Fido

Robin Monks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:32:46 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Another question I recently answered on Aardvark, thought it would be useful to more folks as well. Where can i get the Nexus One in Canada and will it work on Fido? The first thing to note is you can’t get Nexus One’s that easily if you’re in Canada, since, the Google [...]

Moving from Windows to Linux, iTunes to…?

Robin Monks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:07:23 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Here’s a question I get hit up on Aardvark with earlier today: I have a very very big collection of music in iTunes. I want to move to Linux but I don’t know if the players can handle 200,000+ files as efficiently as iTunes. Help? The answer, is rather simple. Songbird is [...]

Thanks Microsoft!

Robin Monks — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:37:19 +0000

Image via Wikipedia So, Microsoft sent me a complimentary copy of Microsoft Expression Studio 3 today for being a partner. Kudos to them. As to Expression Web, it works wonderful for prototyping but, doesn’t really handle CMS themeing that well. Will be playing around with Expression Blend a bit later to see what geekiness I [...]