The NES Mini Classic is a wonderful little box. It captures most of the old gaming feeling by putting you close to the screen and giving you authentic feeling controllers. That all while displaying everything in a modern fashion on a up-to-date HDMI-capable device or TV.
Also part of the thrill is that it gives you all that good old classic games in it’s 30 game line-up so that you can play everything that you loved during the 90s. Everything? Just barely.
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Hacks
3.Feb.2017
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How to add more games to NES Mini Classic using hakchi2 and a Mac
The NES Mini Classic is a wonderful little box. It captures most of the old gaming feeling by putting you close to the screen and giving you authentic feeling controllers. That all while displaying everything in a modern fashion on a up-to-date HDMI-capable device or TV.
Also part of the thrill is that it gives you all that good old classic games in it’s 30 game line-up so that you can play everything that you loved during the 90s. Everything? Just barely.
Development
23.Aug.2016
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Fixing failing SSL-certificate verification for Ruby under Windows
A while ago I wrote a little piece that was ment to safe people from the SSL-certificate problems that might occur using RVM.
For the past year this problem has not gone away and still exists today.
Management
2.Jul.2016
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The one IT skill I wished everybody had
There is a big gap in understanding between developers and business-people. Sometimes we are not aware of this gap, for example when we engage in emotional arguments about “how long things will take” or “if refactoring or features are more important”. But most of the time it is quite apparent that we have to work hard in meetings/workshops and discussions to clear up requirements and estimate complexities/timings between the guys implementing and the guys requiring something of a digital product.
Development
19.Sep.2015
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A new Ruby-gem for the Giantbomb API
You know, I really like videogames. I also really like structured data about stuff. e.g. IMDB or TheMovieDB. When it comes to data for videogames the best place for structured data is hidden in the editorial content of Giantbomb. They also offer a great API that gives access for this data. Sadly the ruby-support in gems was a bit limited.
Development
11.Sep.2015
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When RSPEC with Capybara fails with NotFound while serving AJAX-requests
“Concurrency is a bitch” this famous quote by any developer ever can haunt your everyday work like crazy. Why? Because mainly race-conditions and concurrency does not fit the “normal” way of thinking about code, which normally works like a cursor that processes stuff sequentially.
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