Currently working in downtown Buffalo as a Platform Engineer in the internet industry, I live with my wife and two children. An avid gamer since my childhood, I tend to gravitate more towards technical writing and reviews in that industry. When it comes to
+ more bio informationWhat is AJAX? Well, the textbook definition, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is not of much help to the average reader and may only get us so far as to realize we are not discussing a cleaning product. While the name implies the use of XML, AJAX is the appropriate term for any web sites that perform HTTP Requests in order to... More..
What makes a good RPG? Is it story? Battle mechanics? Spell combinations and variety? For every gamer, there is that one nugget in a game that keeps you coming back. To RPG lovers everywhere, you latch onto a game that has multiple nuggets hidden throughout.In my opinion, the Playstation has numerous nuggets of gold scattered... More..
In the realm of video games, character gender has often been used to stereotype elements and story lines for years. The casual gamer can most likely come up with a few female characters from games off the cuff: names like Princess Peach, Lara Croft and even Chun-Li of the Street Fighter franchise may roll off the tongue when ... More..
As with all things game related, recommendations can be extremely subjective. Everyone has their own ideas of what makes a game great. For example: some people absolutely live for RPGs, and other people cannot sit still for fifteen minutes to watch a party work their way through the first level of a dungeon. Those same restle... More..
Dreams are an evidence of an idle mind - or so I've always been told. Whether the dream occurs as a nightmare resulting in a panic-stricken child or as a businessman's daydream of how he will climb the corporate ladder, my upbringing taught they are all simply illusions brought to life by the subconscious mind. Those of us wi... More..
While every pregnancy, and woman, is entirely different, there are a few rules of thumb I have learned during my wife's first two pregnancies that have definitely made this third adventure into fatherhood go more smoothly! I hope that some of these pointers will be helpful to some of you other men out there and may even save ... More..
Creating a website can be a very complicated matter when one realizes the variety of decisions that need to be made: from choosing whether or not to host the site to whether or not it will host static or dynamic content. To those uneducated in the matters of web, even the most basic tasks in website creation can seem daunting... More..
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