Archive for November, 2009

Nov
28

Quite a change, don’t you think? So where do we start on explaining what’s happened to your website?

Java developers have a variety of choices when it comes to serializing and deserializing Extensible Markup Language (XML) objects. Simple is one such example, and it offers a number of advantages over its competitors. In this article, explore an introductory overview of how to use Simple within an XML communication system.

Troubled Pete Doherty has revealed that his heart “stopped” and he was on a life support machine after being rushed to hospital.

Katie Price has said she decided to quit the I’m A Celebrity jungle after proving to the public she was ‘genuine’.

MMORPG.com Age of Conan Correspondent John Humphrey writes this look at marketing and how Age of Conan, a totally revamped game with an expansion on the way, can learna thing or two from Blizzard.

Angry Katie Price has warned she will quit I’m A Celebrity if voters keep condemning her to gruesome bushtucker trials.

Review: X Factor winner Alexandra Burke proved she’s developed into star with a perfect pop performance.

In this Practically Groovy article, Scott Davis continues building the Groovy Twitter client named Gwitter that he began in Part 1. This time, he tackles HTTP Basic authentication and use of Groovy's ConfigSlurper to read in configuration settings.

Robbie Williams and former Take That bandmate Gary Barlow sang together again for the first time in 15 years at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Funcom has re-launched their re-evaluation campaign for Age of Conan, this time offering players new incentives to return and subscribe to Age of Conan for extended periods.

As part of the re-evaluation campaign players who have inactive subscriptions are invited back to play Age of Conan free for two weeks, and will receive a double XP boost during their free period.

The X Factor is set to pull in an astonishing £8,000 per second from TV ads during the live final, it has been revealed today.

The Funcom team has updated their official AoC Blog here at MMORPG.com. This time, Glen “Famine” Swan takes a behind-the-scenes look at the game’s content team.

Today, we ask Funcom’s Craig Morrison about his philosophies on attempting to balance ranged and melee combat styles in an MMO.

The IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Health Center is a
lightweight tool that monitors IBM virtual machines for Java with minimal
performance overhead. It provides live information and recommendations about
classes being loaded, the virtual machine environment, garbage collection,
locking, and profiling. This article introduces you to the Health Center and
shows an example of how it can be used to check the impact of a source code
change in a Web application.

Amy Winehouse almost choked on her food as she watched Rachel Adedeji booted off The X Factor.