Xbox One?

As most of us know it, the newest addition to the Xbox family will be released later this year. They have named it the Xbox One. Forget the whole 720 degree thing. They went with one. I was personally hoping for something more creative, but once again, Microsoft never ceases to disappoint me. This is what I know about the Xbox One.

• Blu Ray optical disk drive
• 8 gigs of RAM
• 500 gig non-replaceable hard drive
• An AMD GPU
• "Multitasking"
• It's black
• Voice control

This is just a basic list, but it does seem promising. The only thing that I am not too keen about is the non-replaceable hard drive. I have multiple hard drives for my current Xbox 360 and I find it convenient to use them rather than some sort of external source. Yet, since they are raising the ante by making it 500 gigs of space, this might make my situation irrelevant. I am very excited to see some live testing of it or reviews by anyone who gets their hands on it early.

Have a good day!

- John

Summer School

Today has been one of the days where you wish you had more than 24 hours. I've recently been on a informational crunch, trying to learn as much of everything as possible. I've realized that this is the least efficient way to go about this. Instead of trying to refine my knowledge of javascript, develop my html skills, learn PHP, Ruby, and Python, I've concluded that I need to focus on a single topic and just devote all the time I would be dedicating to everything else towards this one skill.

It's just so rewarding to feel the sense of accomplishment when you spend thirty minutes debugging a bit of code and finally see a working result. I just really want to keep learning more and more.

I notice I really sound lame. Wanting to learn and all.

So if anybody needs me I will be stationed in front of my drawing pad and dsktop for the next 12 hours.

Enjoy the day!

John

1000 Views!!!

Woo Hoo! We have reached our first benchmark of 1000 views on our blog. We would like to thank you all for reading our content and especially those who have given us feedback. It honestly really helps us. I hadn't anticipated this benchmark so quickly so I don't have any sort of gift ready for you.

If any of you guys have an idea (maybe a special lets play video) be sure to let us know and we'll do something for you :D

Once again, Thank you guys!

- John from Belliavis

Star Wars Can Never Be Destroyed

Thank all that is holy. Star Wars is not defeated.

It has been said that Disney has given the rights of all the Star Wars video game developments to EA Games, including studios like DICE, Visceral, and Bioware. I am beyond excited to see a Battlefront 3 created by DICE, and with the new Frostbite gaming engine, this could potentially be a game of the year.

With all great things comes the daisy downers. There is always the possibility that EA will balls it up once again and bring shame to the Star Wars franchise, but deep down in my heart there is faith in them and I believe that they can create something amazing if they put the time and effort into it.

That's all for now!
- John

Javascript or Flash?

I am a huge fan of codeacademy.com

They have a detailed, professional course design that really focuses on people new to the programming world. I started out there with the html/css courses when I started college and it really helped me gain an advantadge over my classmates. The only downfall was that during group projects I was the one doing the work. Besides, how do you evenly distribute the workload of designing and creating a website, especially one being created by novices?

I really enjoyed the majority of the courses, but there were a few spots when I simply didn't know what to do. After rummaging through the internet I eventually found my answers, but sometimes that is what it takes when you are learning a new language.

I have returned to the website with the anticipation of learning some real programming languages, such as Java and Flash. Codeacademy does not provide lessons for these two specific languages, but they do have a course for Javascript.

Now, this is my question. Should I start on Flash or Java? If there are any professionals out there who have learned from experience which one is betterm I would greatly appreciate some insight. I am one of those people who has to focus on one language at a time, mainly because I will start to combine the codes and bug my project up.

Have a great day!

- John

http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0

The Golden Dollar

We have just made our first dollar via online services! It's quite a good feeling, being able to receive money for doing something we enjoy and without having to actually seeing someone face to face. This type of transaction certainly is a new thing to how businesses work, and with it being my first time trying it I was very pleased to see how smooth the process was.

On that note, if anybody has any type of design project that they want young professionals (us) to take on, we would be more than happy to assist or even complete it for you. Typical examples of work we would do are logo designs, poster designs, powerpoints, short videos (commercials/advertisements/trailers/promos), and things like that.

Just contact us at Belliavis@gmail.com

Hope you all are having a wonderful day!

- John