AnthonyDamasco

I’ve been playing this new Free MMORPG. It’s bad ass. It’s a turn based MMO that has a final fantasy type battle system, and a world with wondering creatures that trigger battles much like Star Ocean.

This video is in japanese, however the game is in english as well.

It all starts with some basic character creation which allows you to make a group leader. Traditional 3d anime style character looks - male/female - sword, spear, bow, guitar, gun, cannon, staff, chainsaw blade. The weapon represents your class and each class has different abilities.

Your then thrust into this intro / tutorial where you get an addtional 3 members for your team. Swords, Spears, bows, guns. These members are similar to your main, but much less effect. Sub members can be upgraded to a new class/skin every 20 levels or so.

As your main lvls up and tears through quests, you will be able to more and different characters to your team. Some are big and scarey, some are small and like healing everybody in their free time. This makes for diverse groups using different strategies. For example I might create a cannon character and get 3 swords to block the front row. My strategy would be to cannon the groups on monsters with my main, and directly assault there front like with my sword chars.

This is an MMO so there is a party system, market place for trading, guilds and mounts. Partying is actually really beneficial because you get a ton of bonus exp when in larger groups. Party battles will allow you and other party members all line up on one side of the battle field. You can actively group attack the enemy on your turn. Very exciting visual, even for a turn based. But be careful, monsters can also be in parties, which means, if you fight them without a party it will be more than one groups of enemies versus only your group.

this video shows a party fighting a party of monsters

There are also matches and PVPs between players. Overall this game is a new/old approach to MMORPGs and I believe it’s balanced just right and will would be a great addition to any gamers collection. Atlantica Online

My experiences with Verizon support have been terrible. Even when troubleshooting a cell phone issue, they never seem to know what they are talking about. I saw a video on you tube recently called “Verizon Math Fail” where some tech support agents didn’t follow a simple math concept. Quiet entertaining.

I had a similar experience recently. A client of my former employer insisted on using Verizon web hosting against my advice and ended up with a ton of problems. The Verison control panel is a piece of garbage with a ton of limitations. So I do what I always do when hosts have crappy cpanels. I connect directly. Of course they have limits on permissions that block any external IP address. So i called up there tech support to get my IP white listed.

The brillant staff over at verizon tried to convince me that the reason why I couldn’t connect to the mysql server was my screen resolution was too small. And when I suggested that there might be another reason why I can’t connect to there servers the tech support agent flipped out on me. I asked to speak to a manager, hoping to get someone who knew something about hosting.

The problem still isn’t solved, I recommend to stay away from Verizon for all there services besides mobile phones. There support sucks for that too however.

I’ve been on vacation for the last week, driving back and forth to Florida with no Internet. I needed to do some development so I installed wamp server on my machine a couple weeks ago and it ended up helping me out so much.

The 18 hour drive to Florida turned out the be a great opportunity to do some php programming. Wamp server lets you run php, mysql and apache locally so that you can test all of your programming by going to http://localhost/ on your machine.

The only issue i seemed to have are some errors with mysql GUIs such as the mysql GUI tools, and navicat for MySQL, but you just click “OK” to the error and carry on as usual.

I recommend that all LAMP programmers install this on your machines, you never know when you will be stranded without internet and in need to of a good local server to test code.

http://wampserver.com

This software has saved a ton of time for me. I recently obtained a copy of this great software and started using it today. Prior to using Navicat, I used MySQL Front and Nerocode MySQL client. Those are good clients, but they don’t have all the capabilities of Navicat 8.

Whats so damn special?

Well for starters, the software runs extremely smooth. It also does a great job organizing all my different database connections. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I am able to import and export straight from an excel spread sheet. This makes it extremely easy for my clients to do data entry or keep local records of there database without having to mess with a 3rd party converter. Navicat 8 also does a great job at backing up databases. I backed up a database with 40 tables and over 50 thousand rows in under 2 minutes. I was very pleased with it.

Alright Alright, how do I get this shiney MySQL goodness?

Well, as with most good things, you gotta buy it. Of course there are other ways of obtaining this software but I do not endorse that method at all…

Stay legal and buy it here :-p
http://www.navicat.com/store.html