dotBunny Inc.

Under Construction (Again!)

Matthew — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:25 +0000

It’s been some time since we’ve posted an update to the site, its not because we haven’t been doing anything. We had hoped to had the new version of the site live by christmas, but in our quest for perfection we still haven’t reached a point where we are willing to share.

In the mean time, go check out one of our newest projects Aztez.

Additionally we have posted the intro video to one of our newer games, Flight of the Kelvins, to Vimeo to show off the outstanding work being done on it; a game play video is sure to follow as well.

We’re working really hard to start growing the company this year, so stay tuned.

MonoDevelop.Unity

Matthew — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:31:58 +0000

During our time between projects, we all went off to do our own things. Some of us worked on movies, others worked on getting in shape, and some of us spent our time working on toolsets to help with our next game, and some spent time on the website (a little bit). One of those tools was an Add-In for the cross-platform MonoDevelop, which brought some of the features and integration points we wanted while developing in it.

We’ve released the Add-In to the public via a custom Add-In repository, so that automatic updating will work with it as well. You can grab the instructions for how to install it from our Wiki.The full source is also available over at GitHub.

We hope that the community will help expand on its current feature set, and make it something for everyone to use.

In With The New! Out With The Old!

Matthew — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:24:42 +0000

While we are not finished with the site yet, we have finished our initial migration over to our new hosting solution provided by the wonderfully talented folks at Media Temple. There is lots of new stuff coming down the pipes, it’s just a matter of finding the time.

We’re wrapping up our end of june ‘back from vacation’ list and will be starting to map out our next 6 months.

Perfectionism, Sucks!

Matthew — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:05:34 +0000

It’s always easier to work on client work, as there is a certain separation between it and us. Now don’t get me wrong, we still try to connect with our clients and strive to achieve what they want, and more.

I’m specifically focusing on the sheer amount of time that we are dumping into cleaning up the website and trying to make it more worthy of our company per say. Every little detail gets looked at and thought about for not just minutes, hours, different approaches are mocked up, different color schemes tried. It’s really ridiculous how much time has been spent (over our vacations) on the site. I guess in the end it’s worth it to have a nice and functional site that we do not have to constantly think about having to fix up; oh wait! That has been our site for the last three years!

For a long time we have been using the Aptana Cloud service to host our web properties. After much debate over the last six months we’ve decided that once the website is finished being tweaked we will be moving our properties over to Media Temple. They are one of the top tier webhosting companies available online, and as such we will be hoping to push their services to our customers as well. It should be a fun challenge to migrate our systems to their virtualized systems, but we feel its an important move in maintaining reliability and efficiency.

Divisions On The Horizon

Matthew — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:19:43 +0000

We’ve been hard at work for the last while working on some fun and creative things. Expect to see some interesting happenings around the website. First and foremost is the upcoming divide of the company’s identity into a corporate centric group, as well as a gaming centric group.

This should allow us to target individual market needs, while still maintaining the appropriate image required. So in non-marketing terminology language, it just means that we will be trying to adjust what we are doing to be more tailored for our clients. The website is getting a revamp, with the idea of identifying our corporate wing as a consulting agency. Whereas our gaming division is about creating games, whether they are for a client or an internal project.

Site Goes Live

Matthew — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:42:22 +0000

After quite a while we have decided to turn off ‘maintenance mode’ on the site and allow people to peruse the site. It is definitely not done, but we felt the need to get rid of the splash page and show some actual content. We will be doing numerous modifications throughout the site over the next week, and can expect to break some elements of the site as we have our marketing people review it.

Additionally some of the back data (ala the timeline) still needs to be linked properly, as well as the services company list needs to be updated and altered a bit.

Needless to say, we’ve got our work cut out for us over the next little while.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC0

Matthew — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:18:52 +0000

With the recent release of the RC for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008, we decided it was time to give it a whirl on an internal development box.

We had a previous CTP (10.0.1300.13) on our target box, and were hoping that we could upgrade that, so there was no hassle. Unfortunately, when we went through the process it initially said that it could, but when it came to selecting data directories it complained of existing data in the data directories. Well duh? I wanted to upgrade!

Since it was a development box, and really there was only one database on there that mattered, a quick backup was in order. Uninstalling our old deployment gave us an insight into some of the changes in this release for customizations. The drill down options on features in the new install is much nicer, allowing for further customization of what gets installed getting rid of all those unwanted extra services that are not needed.

Something to note here, during its ‘checks’ where it looks for possible problems. It gave us a ‘Passed’ for previous CTP installation, prior to the removal of our previous version which failed on upgrade. Interesting little hickup there, that hopefully will get fixed by release.

The actual installation process took less then 5 minutes on the server, however it can be assumed that this is relative to your own hardware specs. I got a few errors related to Visual Studio during the install, probably because it’s not installed on that server (and why would it be?). The errors didn’t seem to effect the install at all, and we we’re back up and running within 5 minutes after the installation (had to reattach the database).

Performance wise, we are seeing a major improvement compared to the old install. Not sure why, but we’ll look into it.

Website Takes Shape

Matthew — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:01:14 +0000

Today marks the start of the final itteration of our development cycle for the new website.
Over the course of the next two weeks we hope to get everything finalized and ready to publish.