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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for October, 2004

Halo 2 Lock-In @ New Media Arena

Friday, October 29th, 2004

HALO players,
HALO 2 LOCK-IN! 4 X-Boxes on large screen TVs networked together for 16 player action all night long. Additional TVs available for bring your own equipment.
Monday, November 8th 8:00pm - 9:00am Tuesday
Sign up fast! Limited seats available!
HALO 2 2 v 2 Tournament with Cash Prize [...]

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File Sharing with Central

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Although Mike blogged this already, I wanted to pose a question. After Kenny showed me his creation this morning of sending a JPEG file to another Central user via Flashcom, it was interesting to note that even running local host, there was a 3 second lag in sending a 22k file.
Now, the player didn’t [...]

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Gaming: Console vs. PC

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

I read a rumor about gaming companies more apt to focus their efforts on the console market vs. the PC market. This was due in large part to piracy, but also to deployment. Although QA is a bigger deal, since as a coworker said, if you have a bug in a PC game, [...]

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Rich Internet Applications vs. Rich Applications

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Had some interesting discussions and observations over the past few weeks. This culminated yesterday into a conversation about games, etc. It just was luck that I garnered an understanding of both of the above comparisons.
First off, I can see why a lot of applications are going web vs. fat client/win32 etc. I [...]

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Alienware, Farcry, and Doom 3

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

My Alienware Aurora computer came in the mail last week. As someone who is overly aware of one’s own mortality, I find the key to happiness is to lower your expectations for trivial things, but ensure your standards are not subpar. That way, you always have your expectations exceeded, but never lower your [...]

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