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The New GarageGames.com and thick skin

It takes some seriously thick skin to weather criticism like this at GarageGames, it's not fun, it hard to not take it personally and get demoralized and harder yet to stay on course.

Author Rick Overman Date 01/15/2009 (6:29 pm) Comment 16 comments

So you want to build a site for your game?

So you want to build a site for your game? Cool, me too! Check out what Sean and I have been up to since we left GarageGames: http://onepresscommunity.com. Get your site setup in a day no...

Author Rick Overman Date 12/28/2008 (7:36 am) Comment 13 comments

Next Stop, Startup-ville

Next stop startup-ville. It's in my blood. I am addicted and it's time to do it again. GarageGames is rockin' and bigger than my wildest expectations. [url=http://instantaction.com]InstantAction[/u...

Author Rick Overman Date 08/20/2008 (11:37 pm) Comment 9 comments

Scheduled Outage December 19th at 11am PST.

Our ISP is performing a power upgrade on our rack so we will be down for approximately 30 min December 19th at 11am PST.

Author Rick Overman Date 12/19/2006 (5:58 pm) Comment 0 comments

A Good Problem to Have

So you have probably been wondering where the h*** have the web guys gone? Let me assure you we are still here working harder than ever. In fact, we recently added another person to the team, [url=/...

Author Rick Overman Date 09/26/2006 (10:23 pm) Comment 14 comments

Goodbye Old Office :(

The last post from our old office... It just seems like yesterday when Jeff, Mark, Tim, Jay, Brian, Alex and I moved into this space and now we are bursting at the seams! Of course none of th...

Author Rick Overman Date 06/02/2006 (4:31 am) Comment 11 comments

What's up at GG? New MySQL servers and more...

I took advantage of a scheduled downtime at our ISP (Friday night) to install a new database server. So if you were trying to read the forums Friday night and could not attach to any GarageGames serv...

Author Rick Overman Date 04/30/2006 (10:08 pm) Comment 10 comments

Want a Web Development Job at GarageGames?

GarageGames is seeking a new member of our web development team to help build and maintain the worlds largest independent game development portal! If you are a self-starter that possesses that extra g...

Author Rick Overman Date 04/03/2006 (9:25 pm) Comment 5 comments

GarageGames.com AJAX'ified

This web update contains the soft launch of an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) library that I have been working with. If you care it's cool, if you don't you'll never notice, because the page ...

Author Rick Overman Date 02/13/2006 (11:28 pm) Comment 23 comments

Be a Hero Answer A Question

I added a new link on the Community page to display a list of Unanswered Forum Posts for the last 60 days. If you have a few spare minutes and you would like to contribute back to the commun...

Author Rick Overman Date 02/09/2006 (11:51 pm) Comment 16 comments

Website Update, Update

I think I have all the "oops" bugs fixed right now. Been doing some minor tweaks to the community page to help improve work-flow, it is still a work in progress and I am open to suggestions (even div...

Author Rick Overman Date 12/22/2005 (12:54 am) Comment 31 comments

Major Website update in an hour!

We will be preforming a MAJOR site update in the next hour. During that time the site will be unavailable. ...time passes. Ok, it looks like it all went as smooth as an update of this si...

Author Rick Overman Date 12/16/2005 (8:19 pm) Comment 84 comments

Verizon blocks GarageGames email

For all of you using Verizon email address here at GarageGames and have not been receiving emails I just wanted to let you know what has been going on and that it is fixed. Verizon automatically ...

Author Rick Overman Date 09/22/2005 (3:00 pm) Comment 8 comments

New Webserver Hardware

Upgraded our webserver today, hope no one noticed more than a brief interruption in service. Couple minor gliches but otherwise a very smooth switch over. We are now running on a Dell PowerEdge ...

Author Rick Overman Date 09/06/2005 (11:29 pm) Comment 8 comments

Site Update, Login and Sessions

I made a huge behind the scenes site update today, hopefully none of you noticed. I reworked all the session, cookie and remember me code to facilitate some sub domains that will be coming online in ...

Author Rick Overman Date 07/19/2005 (11:24 pm) Comment 21 comments

Where in the World are GG'ers from?

Ever wonder where all the people you chat with on the forums are from? I do ...so I compiled a little world map of GarageGames.com visitors for May and placed it at the bottom of the Community page. ...

Author Rick Overman Date 06/01/2005 (11:12 pm) Comment 45 comments

Hardware failure

What are the chances that the CPU fan would fail on my new webserver just days after I deploy it? Whatever they are I hit the jackpot. (note: I had been breaking that server in for months 24/7...

Author Rick Overman Date 05/22/2005 (9:48 pm) Comment 14 comments

Browser Usage At GarageGames

Factoid of the day: Browser Usage At GarageGames.com [code] Internet Explorer 6.x 48% Internet Explorer 5.x 3% Firefox 32% Safari 9% Opera ...

Author Rick Overman Date 05/19/2005 (3:44 pm) Comment 34 comments

Plan for Rick Overman

Minor CSS update this morning.... I am sure I am going to get a lot of whining but focus testing research clearly shows that sites with underlined links are easier to navigate. Color is also important...

Author Rick Overman Date 05/11/2005 (6:03 pm) Comment 29 comments

Plan for Rick Overman

Where did everything go? We took the opportunity to make a lot of changes with this hardware/software site update. For those of you who make this site your second home I am sure it is going to fe...

Author Rick Overman Date 05/09/2005 (10:39 pm) Comment 30 comments

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