Whats up everyone? Haven't made a blog in a while O_O
So I scheduled for my last semester, it's pretty badass. It's looking like I'll only have 2 classes a day for about 3 hours, so I'm excited. Gives me much more time to work than this semester does. I don't even want to talk about this semester D=So what have I been up to? Other than stressing over school for the past 8 weeks, I've been programming another web app for myself which speeds up my development time. I call it 'Minoptimizr', because it minifies, then optimizes any CSS or JS file, generally reducing the filesize by 50-70%. Before I would use another site to minify it, then use GZIP to compress it, but now my app does it all in one step! Don't know if it's useful for anyone else, but if you do any webdev check it out.Apps page link
As for games, of course I've been playing Minecraft. I mostly play single player since there's no survival in SMP yet, hoping the Halloween update changes that. Haven't made anything too impressive yet though, just tower-y stuff and a greenhouse. Although I did use redstone to make a sweet cart station.
It waits for me to hit the button, then gives me a cart. Once I get on the cart, it sends me down the track until the end.Well, I'm gonna get back to blindly staring at my teacher while he explains things I learned 6 years ago!
Everyone's been talking about this Minecraft recently…
If you have an imagination, it's an awesome game. If not, you'll think it's pointless and hate it.
Well it says on the site that pre-purchasing gives you all future versions for free. I suppose that justifies the ~14 dollar price tag.
It definitely is. More worthwhile than some of the games I've bought on Steam.
I played a demo of Minecraft. I'm sure there was a lot I missed out on, but I honestly don't know how the game is so popular. It's in alpha, and I see people playing it on the lab computers at my university.
Because you can do anything you want with the world. That is incentive enough. The demon doesn't do any justice because it lacks 75% of the game so far.
I want to make a giant star cruiser complete with interior and warp drives. And it has to fly and be able to protect me from intruders…it shall also be in space…but Minecraft doesn't let you do that, so I'll just model it. I just find the game tedious lol.
Why do you need to reduce a file's size by 1.5kb? I haven't had much experience with web development..
1.5kb isn't much over a single transfer, but what about over 1,000 times? 1,0000,000? It become a problem if you're worried about bandwidth. Also, some hosts charge by the amount of mb/gb transferred.
Also, files download quicker so the user can use the page faster.