Archive for February, 2012

Kicked out by Kickstarter

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3 months ago
by jjohnson in

I’ve written about Grimwar several times on here. I keep trying to rebuild it and make it better but it’s a very big site with a lot of users and there is a lot of work involved with rebuilding. That being said, I AM rebuilding it. Even though it makes no money, even though I don’t even play Magic the Gathering, I think it could be profitable and I want to build it for the community, if nothing else.

I am rebuilding Grimwar in .NET MVC3 and it’s going really well. Unfortunately, Windows servers are more expensive than the LAMP servers More >

Binary Serialization in C#

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3 months ago
by jjohnson in

Let me preface this by saying I’m not sure the information here is correct. Prior to this, I have not worked with binary serialization. I serialized to XML or JSON because it was easy to transfer and was human readable. But binary really makes sense for what I’m doing now. I deserialize JSON into objects from a Web API. To make the app run faster, I cache the deserialized objects. Many of them could be cached for quite awhile because they rarely change. So, persistent cache storage is good but I need to keep the cache footprint small on disk More >

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