Yea for getting carpal tunnel playing on your phone! With the iPhone 2.0 update last week, so came a wealth of apps. I naturally went right for the (free) game category.

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Term coining!

Decision radius: The scope of individuals capable of making a decision. Example: I'm outside the decision radius about where we'll be raiding tonight.

Adobeverse: A group of high-image individuals known for their knowledge in Adobe-related technologies. Such as Ben Forta, Ray Camden, and Ben Nadel are in the ColdFusion wing of the Adobeverse. Unfortunely, this term was used at least a year ago, so while I thought of it on my own, someone else thought of it on their own first.

iTard: One who has displayed inability to navigate Apple's simple interfaces.

Because I always forget how to do it, and always have to look up the syntax... Here's how to update table A with values from table B.

A non-WoW related post? For realz?

I've been working on a Transfer/ColdSpring/ColdBox site. I've got one word for Transfer: voodoo magic. The powers-that-be for this project decided yesterday to abandon Transfer and go back to generating CFCs. I don't exactly know why it was abandoned, but it was cited that Transfer is causing more work arounds than its solving problems. Now I'm just a code monkey on this project. I pull down the files nightly, copy/paste what the other developer did, and change variable names until my portion of the work is done. So I don't have any problems with Transfer, I'm not involved in whatever hoops the other developer is jumping through to get stuff working. I can say I really liked Transfer for the short while I used it. It's shiny and new and from my perspective saves a lot of time.

Shocker, I was playing World of Warcraft last night. Tuesdays are the usual day for Karazhan runs in my guild. I went for a slurpee run and came back to full raid, ready to go. Then the main tank (let's call him Asshat) leaves, saying the group was insufficient to complete the instance.

Some background on Asshat, he has nine level 70 characters and a few level 60+. Getting a character to level 70 takes (guessing, haven't leveled 1-70 since they sped up the process) nine to eleven "play days", which means 9x24 to 11x24 hours of playing that character. This guy is the very image of a WoW addict.

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Joshua Cyr's done a sweet job setting up a CF/Flex/Air cruise!

http://www.riadventure.com/

I immediately couldn't help but imagine certain big names in the Adobeverse... in swim wear.

I then immediately bashed my head against the wall until I stopped.

Now that you've killed High King Maulgar and Gruul a bunch of times, it's time to move onto bigger fish. I actually think the Mag fight is easier than Gruul. Gruul's Shatter ability is really annoying and does lots of damage. Mag has earthquake, that bounces you around, which is annoying, but much less destructive.

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As with my Karazhan hunter guide, I assume you've read up on the basics of the Gruul's Lair, and are just looking for details specific to the hunter class.

Gruul's Lair is lovely, it's so fast to clear. Two trash pulls to the first boss, five more to the last. Five badges for about 60 minutes of work

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The other component to cf_armory, FactionCapture, is a mess!! A while ago I added the option to chose what factions to graph, and I just changed it to only store faction history for 6 months (filling up my database!), but the page is still so ugly. I'm thinking this is a good candidate for a Flex app. I love the idea of graphically seeing your faction values change over time, but the current conception of it that I have stinks.

So I played with some Flex and came up with this design mock up... The new mock up

After a year of ignoring it, I've finally gotten back to enhancing UpgradeCentral. I used JQuery to break up the data into tabs. Now you'll immediately notice the tabs are too much to fit on the screen, so go into a weird second line. That's because I don't know jack about JQuery ... yet.

Note, UpgradeCentral uses Armory to determine what is an upgrade, based on the character's current spec. And a lot of it is rubbish. It generally ignores items with a "chance on hit" sort of bonuses.

Next I need some check boxes to unselect locations. I don't care to see upgrades from Sunwell, Black Temple, or PVP with my hunter and nothing over Gruul's with my priest.