WordPress 2.3.3 Update Complete & WordPress Release Roadmap

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Jonathan J. Reinhart

The CWF Game Cast has completed its update from its 2.3.2 version of WordPress to 2.3.3. Why do this, you may ask. Instead of trying to explain it all to you, the WordPress people did a great job of it already.

Please read WordPress 2.3.3 at the official WordPress blog. That explains all the reasons why we updated.

The upgrade went through without a hitch and was quicker than expected. Version 2.3.3 is an urgent security release that is part of the official Roadmap charting the course up to WordPress 2.6. With each release new features are added and old bugs are fixed. This mirrors the CWF Game Cast too because when we upgrade to a new version of WordPress we try to add better features to enhance your experience. We are also working to time big events, such as special podcasts, with the WordPress releases.

This method allows us to maximize the power of every incarnation of WordPress into a better CWF Game Cast.

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WordPress 2.3.3 Update

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Jonathan J. Reinhart

The CWF Game Cast will be updating from its 2.3.2 version of WordPress to 2.3.3 today. Why do this, you may ask. Instead of trying to explain it all to you, the WordPress people did a great job of it already.

Please read WordPress 2.3.3 at the official WordPress blog. That explains all the reasons why we are updating.

During the upgrade the blog will be unavailable. We expect this to last 30 minutes. But, check back at the blog for further updates. We’ll have the usual Site Unavailable for Maintenance Mode message up during this process.

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The Pats Lose Superbowl 42 = 10 Steps to Turn Your Loss Into SUCCESS

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Jonathan J. Reinhart

The Patriots let the game slip from their grasp when the Giants played a superior game to win today’s Superbowl putting an end to the Patriots’ perfect season. Before everyone in New England calls me a traitor let me say that although I thought the Pats would lose the game, after I saw how the Giants were playing, I hoped I would be wrong. Everyone loves the local team to win and winning the Superbowl on top of a perfect season and combined with the Red Sox winning the World Series would be a great way for this sports season to go in Boston. Sadly that was not to be.
By now reader, you are thinking “this is a gaming blog why the heck are we talking sports?” It is true that most gamers don’t care about sports. If they did they would spend more time outdoors being physically healthy. But that is a topic for another day. The reason I mention the Superbowl and the Patriots losing it will become apparent momentarily.

There comes a time in every gamer’s life when they see the unhappy truth approaching of losing the game. Maybe the Repeater Bolt Thrower didn’t take out enough Chaos Warriors. Perhaps those Cygnarian Warjacks couldn’t kill the Butcher. Possibly you couldn’t get Power 9 out in time. Or maybe your level 70 Tauren Hunter has no friends to heal him as he ventures into Onyxia’s Lair in World of Warcraft. Whatever the case is you suddenly lose that elated feeling and realize that victory is slipping out of reach. Call it an inability to adapt to changing circumstances. Call it fate. Call it luck. No matter what you call it you’re losing.

Do you cry? Do you get throw your models across the table? Do you cede the win and give up? Or, do you throw yourself into it with a greater fervor providing the most fun your opponent and you have ever had? I’m sure you may feel like doing the first three, from time to time. However I hope that you choose the road less traveled and give it your all with a renewed source of energy.

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CWF’s 1st Podcast Promo

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Jonathan J. Reinhart

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Finally we have succeeded in making our first promo that doesn’t suck…completely. Using GarageBand ’08 and my new iMac, yay Mac, we have recorded a 39 second promo. We tried to keep it to 30 seconds but what’s an extra 9 seconds?

Please use this promo to show your friends how much we rock and why they, like you, should listen to the CWF Game Cast. We’ll be working on other promos down the road. This first one is strictly informational but the others will touch on other genres like comedy and sci-fi.

Listen to the promo below and you can share the promo with others by right clicking CWF Game Cast Promo #1 and saving it to your computer. Then you can e-mail it to everyone. You can share this post on Digg, /., Facebook, Technorati using the icons at the bottom of this post.

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Enhanced Podcast? What’s That?

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Jonathan J. Reinhart

“While trolling your blog I saw mention of an Enhanced Podcast. What the heck is that? It looks like it is the same thing as your regular podcast.” Those words from a friend echo the statements of the average podcast listener out there not to mention a few podcasters. Enhanced podcast as a term have been recently bantered about as a step between vidcast and podcast. Cue the record screeching. “Vidcast? Podcast? Enhanced Podcast? A gamer know not these things.” Sorry I can’t help myself when it comes to butchering a famous Yoda quote. Let’s back up a little for a brief definition of vidcast and podcast.

A podcast is an audio file composed of speech and/or music that is shared across the net. It may be in iTunes or independently on a website. It usually is joined to a blog and usually has episodes. The host or hosts discuss a topic and share their knowledge, or lack thereof, with listeners. People listen to the podcast by subscribing in iTunes or putting the RSS Feed (web address for the podcast that automatically updates with a new episode) into a program that reads it. Most commonly this is iTunes.

A vidcast is a video file composed of speech, music, and video that is shared across the net. The best example is Diggnation where two guys are seen on camera talking about the most recently popular happenings on the Digg website. A vidcast allows people to show instead of tell. You can see someone paint a model or repair a car or build a computer or cook. A podcast only lets you hear them do those activities.

An enhanced podcast is the gray area between those two. It is a special audio file that also has pictures and links to webpages in it. These pictures break the podcast up into chapters much like a book. You can click on the picture to see a larger version or click on the link to go to the associated website. This is very popular with podcasts wanting to show you pictures or give walk throughs. If I wanted to show you how to assemble a plastic tactical marine I can take pictures of each step of the way. As I describe the steps to you in the podcast you would see the corresponding picture and a link to detailed instructions for that step. Or, I can show you pictures of each new release as I talk about it along with a clickable link to buy that item.

Enough of the technical what is an enhanced podcast. Now we need to move on to why. Or, more precisely why is the CWF Game Cast doing enhanced podcasts. Each Thursday we are releasing a new podcast. That isn’t changing but from time to time we’ll turn the regular podcast into an enhanced podcast. So there will be the regular podcast and the enhanced one. The enhanced one will have those pictures and links I mentioned. Doing this lets us put more in the podcast for listeners who don’t come to our blog.

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