Henry Cipolla

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Basic Frozen Synapse Level Editing

I recently picked up a copy of Frozen Synapse and have been playing it with my friends. Unfortunately, many years of first having a real job then running a startup has divorced me from video gaming enough that I’m rather terrible at it. So, rather than be defeated I’ve turned my energies into an exploration [...]

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Installing ipbt (a ttyrec player) on OS X

Unless you are a pretty massive geek, you probably don’t care about ttyrec players. With the close of the 2010 Dungeon Crawl Tournament I wanted to review some of the games by the better players was not at all surprised to find the lack of a native ttyrec player on OS X. Luckily, it is [...]

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Creating an Array of Hashes in Ruby

I just made a simple mistake which I figure would be good share with anybody new-ish to Ruby. I wrote the following code to create an array of hashes and fill in some values. Can you guess what the output is? #!/usr/bin/env ruby testArray = Array.new(5, Hash.new) 0.upto(4) do |i| testArray[i][:value] = i end 0.upto(4) [...]

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Solutions to common problems encountered while configuring your PC to dual boot Vista and OSX

There are a bunch of guides out there on how to dual boot Vista and OS X on your PC. While I have listed the general steps that I followed below, this post is intended to be a troubleshooting guide for some of the weird problems you can run into while trying to do this. [...]

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How to connect to your Mac from your Linux box

In a move that will surprise anybody who knows me, I’ve installed Mac OSX 10.5.2 on a Dell PC I had sitting around my office. As a side note, I was shocked at how easy it is to achieve this. I did not run into a single problem and the entire process took less than [...]

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How to create infinite sessions with the Facebook Platform API

Like all things with Facebook Platform API, creating infinite sessions is really easy. However, there seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation on the web about how this works. Part of this could be the fault of Facebook’s documentation. They provide a pretty good explanation of the authentication process but then the example [...]

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