http://blog.johnpencola.com Where streams of thought converge into pools of knowledge. Thu, 05 May 2011 05:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/04/03/platos-wisdom-applied-to-software-engineering/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/04/03/platos-wisdom-applied-to-software-engineering/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:41:02 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=425 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/04/03/platos-wisdom-applied-to-software-engineering/feed/ 0 I’ve noticed that when I’m faced with solving problems in Software Engineering and Development, sometimes I’ve come to the sound solution relatively quickly, while other times it can take quite a few iterations before the solution is revealed. I try … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/27/be-an-ethical-interviewer-stop-frontin/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/27/be-an-ethical-interviewer-stop-frontin/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:57:13 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=389 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/27/be-an-ethical-interviewer-stop-frontin/feed/ 2 It’s one thing to partake of the Kool-Aid, but this interviewer serves it up cold to the uninformed candidate. Ranging from giving a false sense of business practices, where the business is headed, the overall quality of morale, team dynamics … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/02/25/taking-the-trophy-achievement-concept-to-the-next-level/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/02/25/taking-the-trophy-achievement-concept-to-the-next-level/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:24:21 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=219 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/02/25/taking-the-trophy-achievement-concept-to-the-next-level/feed/ 2 Cock-a-doodle-doo I woke up today, almost preemptively to the sound of my alarm clock. I quickly moved from the bed to the alarm and snoozed it within one-and-a-half crows of that obnoxious rooster. To my surprise, I heard a chime … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/08/13/standardized-credits-save-footers/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/08/13/standardized-credits-save-footers/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:35:54 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=184 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/08/13/standardized-credits-save-footers/feed/ 0 Picture the familiar crawling credits screen… so predictable because we see it employed ubiquitously in the media we consume today; movies, television shows, video games, desktop applications, the list goes on. Distinguishing factors between the desktop and the web have … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/15/the-problem-with-the-trophy-system-on-the-ps3/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/15/the-problem-with-the-trophy-system-on-the-ps3/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:12:56 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=177 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/15/the-problem-with-the-trophy-system-on-the-ps3/feed/ 2 I’m a big fan of the PS3, but it’s not without its “flaws”. Two of which irk me relate to how Trophies are perceived and awarded. The first is that you cannot delete trophy information from your PSN account. This … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/12/24/dynamically-controlling-mature-content-in-video-games/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/12/24/dynamically-controlling-mature-content-in-video-games/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:34:32 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=118 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/12/24/dynamically-controlling-mature-content-in-video-games/feed/ 0 Throughout my time as a gamer I have welcomed the presence of “adult-oriented” content in video games. I like my “Mature” rated games and all the ingredients that come with them – profanity, excessive violence, etc, etc. But, as I’ve … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/23/uploading-files-with-flash-player-read-the-fine-print/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/23/uploading-files-with-flash-player-read-the-fine-print/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 04:45:15 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=83 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/23/uploading-files-with-flash-player-read-the-fine-print/feed/ 0 Adobe has been disappointing me lately — first off are the Flash Player limitations I noticed on FileReference() and secondly by the lack of motivation and progress Adobe is making towards fixing these issues in the plugin. To elaborate, here … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/12/02/wheres-our-yaml-flickr/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/12/02/wheres-our-yaml-flickr/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:52:07 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=59 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/12/02/wheres-our-yaml-flickr/feed/ 0 It would be really nice to get YAML request or response formats in the FlickrAPI hint, hint, poke, poke…. Also, while I’m on the subject of the FlickrAPI ( which by no means am I bashing here – I think … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/11/30/the-thick-client/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/11/30/the-thick-client/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:20:01 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=50 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/11/30/the-thick-client/feed/ 2 Recently I have been working on a project where 97% of the business logic resides on the “other side of the wall”. As a result, we do a lot of round-tripping as the user interacts with the interface and in … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/22/wordpress-is-a-cms-but-wait-theres-more/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/22/wordpress-is-a-cms-but-wait-theres-more/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:01:56 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/22/wordpress-is-a-cms-but-wait-theres-more/ Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/22/wordpress-is-a-cms-but-wait-theres-more/feed/ 0 Ok, this is something that has been on my mind lately and just the other day it came up during a discussion with a buddy of mine which made me give it some more thought. So here’s my take on … Continue reading →