In our first article from Daniel cook we Explore the use and importance of Theme in Game Design and how it differs from the use of Theme in other medium such as books and film Title: ‘Theme and Game Design’ Written by: Daniel Cook (www.lostgarden.com) Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on October 25, 2008 Bookmark Less

http://geeks.pirillo.com - http://live.pirillo.com - If you've visited my blog recently, you've likely seen the interface. It's designed pretty well. The WicketPixie theme is available as an open-source theme, and is free for you to use on your own site. Liftsifter sent me a message the other day to let me know about a background maker that works great with WicketPixie. http://chris.pirillo.com Less

After last week’s live show we figured we’d have a nice quiet week with a nice short show. But noooo, news had to come in droves and we just couldn’t not mention it all. Lots of mod updates and great Bad Company news and discussion in this short show… not. Less

http://live.pirillo.com - A few weeks ago, I did a Screencast about my free WordPress theme, WicketPixie. The reason why I'm bringing this up, is that the first time I zipped all the files up on my Mac to put online, people were complaining. They didn't know what the .DS_Store files were. Less

http://live.pirillo.com - Yes, I have an iPhone. If you look closely, you can see my little Chris icon on there. It's also on my home screen. When I tap it, it opens my blog. When you open my blog on your iPhone, it's going to look a lot different than it would on a browser. That's due to a plugin I am running in WordPress. Less

The lazy cracker, banjo-infused version of the Jeffersons theme song. I dreamed of this arrangement a couple weeks ago and finally got around to recording it tonight. It's a few clicks slower than I imagined, due mostly to my unwilling right-hand fingers, and it's missing the sweet jug-blown bass part, but it's close enough. Apologies for: the lousy recording; my lousy banjo playing; my lousy, nasal warbling. Less

Almost everyday, I do something with WordPress, particular with themes. That’s because I like to mess around with it, experiment and really dive into all it has to offer. For most of us, we upload this to a web host, create a dummy account or dummy folder and work from it there. I do that a fair bit but sometimes, you just don’t want to FTP in and out. Who knows, sometimes your Internet connection may be down or you just want to unplug while you get things done for a while. But how do you unplug when your work is online?  Hmm…. Why, run a web server on your own computer of course! I love, love, love using Uniform Server for my own development because compared to other methods, it is super easy and always works - at least for me. Never failed. I have been getting my hands dirty with PHP sites since 2002 and working with WordPress since 2003-2004. Ever since, I’m always on the lookout for good packages to run a web server on my own computer so it would be easier to work on scripts before taking them live. If you ever tried manually installing Apache, PHP and Linux on your computer you’d know that it is truly geeky. A throwback to those school days when the computer was still purely text (and the green screen you know?) Ugh. I don’t want to learn to run a web server or manage a database just so I can develop a theme.  That’s why Uniform Server is a beautiful thing. It is small enough you can run it directly from your USB stick. Yup. Take your work with you - no Internet required. It’s also amazingly easy to run. Just download the package, run the setup. Double click a file to start the server and voila! Instant server. Installing WordPress now becomes super easy too. No FTP - just copy your files over and set up the database as usual. Piece of cake. Try it you’ll fall in love with it. Check out the video. You’ll see how I get the server running. http://media.techbasedmarketing.com/video/uniform-server2.flv   Share This Less

Finally a chance to get back online after two days of ISP screw ups. All that with episode 86 just itching to be posted! We cover the latest hoopla around the start of the Battlefield Bad Company Beta, including its catchy theme song, and the hunt of beta keys. Also included are news on Battlefield Heroes that graphic artists will like and of course the mod updates. Please enjoy this week’s episode of Battlefield Podcast responsibly! Show notes: BattleDirector Forgotten Hope 2 WW2combat.net Allied Intent Xtended Eve of Destruction 2 BFZeroes Computer and Video Games CokeZone Contest BF: Bad Company Weapons & Awards www.blackopsmercenaries.us BFHeroes.org Less

In this Marketing Over Coffee learn : About the Power of Free, branding and taglines, and how to ruin your personal brand. All this and more… Show length 22:01 Brought to you by MarketingProfs.com 00:34 Meditate on the message, taglines and elevator pitches 06:24 Nothing beats customer testimonials 07:15 Defending the brand, registered trademarks 07:55 Marketing Science on the value of free 12:15 Chris in The New York Times on the Social Media Resume 16:02 Trade Shows - TED, SDWest, and SXSW (The best opportunity to destroy your personal brand). John has WebInno coming up Chris off to Atlanta and Podcamp DC. Podcamp Boston 3 planning begins! Our theme song is called Mellow G by Fonkmasters from the Podsafe Music Network Direct Link to File ShareThis Less

This is the way my show opens every week. Feel-good music and a big segment of the UK Nova community pontificating about the joys of internet radio and each other! If it doesn’t make you smile…you might not like my show. Less