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Thom Wetzel
(717)576-5135
thom.wetzel@gmail.com
After writing my blog post about issues I was having with my son’s Xbox Live Gold account, I used social media to my advantage and tweeted a link to my story to @xboxsupport, and started a thread in the Chatty on Shacknews.com (where I regularly hang out … I’d link to my profile, but … ) to spread the word about the issues I was having.
@xboxsupport, true to their “Guinness World Record Holder: Most Responsive Brand on Twitter”, one of their CSRs ^JD thanked me for the link within minutes Continue reading »
I made some long-needed updates to my portfolio page. I love getting stuff like that off my plate. I've also been working on making my Resume mobile-friendly using Media Queries. Make sure you click the little icons in the upper right to check out some of the different styles. Corkboard should not be missed.
Filed under 'General'I love that people are still using Bitmap Font Builder after all this time and want to thank everyone that sends me an email telling me what they're using the application for. I'm just tickled to know that in the 11 years since I wrote it (it's been six years since its last release!) that people are still finding uses for its AWESOME POWER. Anyone using it for a game or interesting project that has a web site should let me know - I might post a link here!
Filed under 'Bitmap Font Builder'My nine year old son and I play video games together. A lot of video games. So many in fact, that I decided a while back to buy him his own Xbox 360 so we could play System Link games together. Halo co-op is a lot more fun when every player doesn't have to share half his screen with the other guy. Tommy and I are huge fans of Crackdown. We own two copies of the game and have played through it together a bunch of times, and we were both excited to get our grubby mitts on Crackdown 2. Unlike Crackdown 1, Crackdown 2 didn't work over System Link so I had to cave in and buy the kid his own $50/year Xbox Live Gold Account. As if it's not expensive enough having bought two Xbox 360s, and a bunch of copies of various System Link-able games, now I'm having to shell out $50/year for the kid to play certain titles with his old man.
I was messing around looking through Xbox Live the other night and had some thoughts on ways Microsoft could make it more enjoyable. I sent it off to my good friend Alex Petraglia of PrimoTech to see if he'd be interested in sharing it with his audience and it looks like he did. Check it out: Five Suggestions for Xbox Live
Filed under 'General'*UPDATE* Wishlist Buddy fell on some hard times a few months ago.
I'm a software application developer based in Harrisburg, PA who loves to make stuff that works.
If you're looking for a freelance web/application developer to do nights and weekend work, give my resume a look, browse through my portfolio and drop me a line.
I'm also currently seeking fulltime employement, so if you're looking for a smart, hardworking developer for front-end, PHP or C# work in or around Harrisburg, PA I'd love to talk to you.
- Thom Wetzel
LINK'd is my private bookmarks page that I have opened up to share what I think's neat on the internet
Interesting article on making custom article types in Wordpress to better organize content.
Filed under WordpressHTML5 Canvas Javascript game engine. Biolab Disaster and Drop are really neat demos of what it's capable of. $99
Filed under Web-based Game EnginesAn interactive online tool that generates CSS for borders, shadows and backgrounds. Simple, but effective.
Filed under CSS - ToolsI always run across conversations about this onilne and this page has a lot of interesting info
Filed under PhotographyCovers getting up and running with Ruby on Rails.
Filed under Getting StartedExtremely helpful tutorial on using Virtualbox to get a RoR servers up and running quickly and painlessly. It took less than 10 minutes to get up and running. Great resource.
Filed under Getting StartedTutorials for using Messiah from the ground-up.
Filed under messiahStudio 5While not strictly DIY, StickerYou seems like a cool place to get vinyl stickers printed up on the cheap.
Filed under StickersHelpful key bindings that make switching from Windows to Mac OSX a little easier. PageUp/PageDown not controlling the cursor is ridiculous, but these bindings make it possible to override that behavior.
Filed under Tips & TricksAwesome collection of classic tracks and the songs that followed. Amazing stuff.
Filed under Hip-Hop