Chess player at age 4. Wargame player at age 13. Programmer at age 14. Software engineer by trade. Game designer by passion.

New Brick Mill Site Theme

The non-blog Brick Mill Games sites now have a new, consistent theme.  The background is an “old brick” color, taken from the Resene palette.  Site tweaking may occur over time, but I’m happy with the way it looks right now. At some point in the future, the blog theme will undergo a similar update to…

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Dice Service Migration & Other News

The Brick Mill Games’ Dice Service migration will occur on Sunday, 17-June.  During the migration, the dice services will down for a (hopefully) short time. Once the migration is completed, the KenWare site will no longer be functional from a dice rolling point of view.  The ability to reference log files will still be active…

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Dice Server Migration #3

This is going to be a quick post as I’ve only just returned from a European vacation. The Britannia Battle Resolver is working on the server. I need to fully test every sort of battle permutation, but the server-side code is working just fine. Server logs are being collected and displayed on the client-side via…

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Dice Service Migration Status

I’ve been focused on migrating the Kenware Dice Service to the Brick Mill Games site.  I’ve been making quite a bit of progress and should have the code migrated and modernized and working within a week or so, barring any real life interruptions. The getquickroll service is running, although the “random” numbers that it is…

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Cutting Bait

Sometimes you need to know when to cut bait. Back in 2005, I began a project called Crucible. Crucible was my reaction to the constant tech news blurbs about blog sites getting hacked. As I was administering a bulletin board site and was looking to expand the site by using the newer web technologies out…

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Multitasking Like a Whirling Dervish

As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, sometimes I get so busy that I go into radio silence with nary a warning. Currently, in addition to home improvement and vacation plans, I’m working on five simultaneous projects: Preparing Steel & Steam for Beta Playtesting Brick Mill Games website work Dice Server Migration (overlaps with…

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Ken’s Dice Service

After years of neglect, I’ve decided to migrate the long-running Ken’s Dice Service to the Brick Mill Games site. The reasons behind the neglect and migration are based on the fact that DreamHost keeps its version of Ruby to 1.8.7 on its shared server accounts, which is where kenware.com is located. Version 1.8.7 of Ruby…

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