{"id":484,"date":"2014-01-25T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=484"},"modified":"2014-01-25T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:07:11","slug":"always-backup-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Always backup your data&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might remember the story from a couple of years ago where the creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/projectzomboid.com\/\">Project Zomboid<\/a> had their laptops stolen, causing a major setback in the game&#8217;s development at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday the house I live in was burglarized and (among many other things) 2 of my laptops and my main iOS development testing phone were stolen. I haven&#8217;t lost any Zombox code because it&#8217;s all backed up off-site&#8230;but losing the devices (especially the iPhone 4S) still stings. Had I not been careful to keep the game code backup up elsewhere, the ending to this story might have been much worse.<\/p>\n<p>So this is a reminder to everyone: keep your data backed up off-site!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve transitioned over to using <a href=\"http:\/\/unityvs.com\/\">UnityVS<\/a> as my IDE instead of relying solely on Notepad++ to write code and in the process I&#8217;ve converted all Zombox code to C#. So&#8230;no more JavaScript! Compile time is now faster, code is cleaner, etc&#8230;having worked with it enough I now much prefer C# over JS.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to have some more substantial Zombox updates to post soon&#8230;currently working on fixing some annoying AI bugs that are proving very difficult to solve, so I don&#8217;t have much to show for that yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might remember the story from a couple of years ago where the creators of Project Zomboid had their laptops stolen, causing a major setback in the game&#8217;s development at the time. Well, yesterday the house I live in was burglarized and (among many other things) 2 of my laptops and my main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}