3DM2 installing ( SATA RAID 3ware 9500S-12 Controller)

For some reason (most probably, motherboard issue), my RAID 10 fails: 4th drive was unsynced for a while, once i noticed that i've started the rebuild process and my 3rd drive went offline.

After some strugglings, i decided to buy a 3ware 9500S-12 Controller (price was around $15).

After driver installation (TODO: add link), the first issue i faced is that localhost:888 is unavailable. This post contains the necessary info to fix that: https://blog.shawnhyde.com/post/2012/03/05/3DM2-httplocalhost888-cant-connect-with-Internet-Explorer-Firefox-etc
In short: its needed to replace the default exe with this (reuploaded) : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qVEUzTkXWiI17NkovbJYqG4Wxvl9pPM0

Also, the password for Admin user: 3ware

CV storage for LinkedIn (OneDrive/GoogleDrive/DropBox)

Nowadays, we're living in 21 century, and sending CV via email seems to be as ancient as sharing games via diskettes. In this very case, I'd like to share my CV via LinkedIn and make it nice, shiny and downloadable. Definitely, we want to share a PDF, because all those DOCs/DOCXs can have a format shifts when opened at some specific devices.

LinkedIn - Upload file

So, lets try the most naive way first: upload PDF to LinkedIn profile directly. Go to profile editing, add Summary section, click Add, select Upload file and upload your CV.

Good point is that it has a nice looking preview at the main page:

Bad news is that it is looking quite blurry and there's no direct download link for PDF:

Lets see what we can achieve with OneDrive/GoogleDrive/DropBox.

Finished working with Foodie.fm

That was quite competitive, but i'm pretty pleased with results:

My base task was to "refactor some project's parts", then it evolved to "move the whole project to MVVM", as basically all the code was done in a codebehind - that was quite competitive and took lots of time, but it was extremely useful experience.
Other tasks that i did during last 2 years:
- page navigation with NonLinearNavigationService and advanced data transfer,
- deal with slowpoke WP7's ListBox,
- sync/async lightspeed file storage for WP7,
- a library for effective image caching for WP7,
- a magic queue which would guarantee server requests delivery.

Anyway, that is a great addon to my gamedev skills.

Link for direct downloading Skype (without logging in)

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/windows/downloading/

Windows 8 dual boot fixer

Got some problems after Win8 installation: it didn't see Windows 7.

This software just solved the problem:
http://www.boyans.net/DualBootRepair.html

UPD: If you have a dual-boot Win7 and Win8, and you had installed Win8 after Win7, it would take a while to load Win7: after turning on, Win8 loader would load, then you select Win7, then it would reboot a pc, and then you'll see Win7. A way to fix this is to replace Win8 loader with the one from Win7, which is way faster.

Arcanum Reborn:Riverrise

Присоеденился к разработчикам. На данный момент, проект не ориентирован на прибыль, но мне все же кажется хорошей инвестицией в будущее.
Веб-сайт проекта: http://www.arcreborn.ru/

Скриншоты:

Необходимые ресурсы для геймдизайнеров

В данном топике я хочу представить подборку ресурсов, имеющих непосредственное отношение к дизайну и разработке игр. В первую очередь, эта информация будет полезна начинающим или будущим геймдизайнерам, которые только задумываются о выборе профессии, но, возможно, и профессионалы своего дела найдут что-то полезное или интересное для себя. Кроме того, я предполагаю, что читатели хорошо владеют английским языком, что в наше время для айтишников, настоящих или будущих, подразумевается практически по умолчанию.
Итак, поехали.