February 2nd, 2009
Well, I’ve managed to get around to something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now and that is to set up a blog aggregator for the Deadworld Studios blog.
Similar to how myself and uni mates had set up Planet Comscare during university to parse each of our own personal blogs’ RSS feeds and present them in 1 place so we can easily find out what people are up to. Except this time I didn’t need to use the python script we used last time and was able to find and set up a WordPress plugin, much easier.
Tags: Deadworld, Subspecies
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October 7th, 2008
Ugh, I can’t believe how they get away with it.
My home Internet has been out for over a week now and Virgin Media are difficult to deal with. They keep blaming the outages on their customers so they don’t have to compensate them, it’s taken this long to get them to admit there is a fault with their system somewhere.
Tags: broadband, internet, media, outage, Rant, virgin
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September 25th, 2008
Ugh, I loathe working with VB for money reasons, unfortunately I have to maintain the company’s existing all crappy software. So, I’m coding away adding in the latest bug fix or feature request when VB’s fantastic IDE tells me what I’ve done is wrong…
Tags: Coding, duplicate, scope, vb
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September 25th, 2008
So while I’m searching for a fix for a particular coding problem and rapidly amounting numerous tabs in Chrome for every Google result my seach has given me, I come across this cute little post that made me stop and actually read it. Being a seasoned Java programmer I already have a lot of experience with nested classes etc. but I found this post amusing as it is written as if the author were the Outer Class.
The URL for the post is http://www.javaranch.com/campfire/StoryInner.jsp and it teaches Java by stories, a rather inventive take on the teaching process, effective too.
Tags: class, Coding, Java, nested
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August 30th, 2008
Whoa, I really hate doing that but it was required.
I just finished writing a php script that read all my old blog posts from the old database in the old format (my own custom blogging system), converted it all into the WordPress format and then inserted it into this blog’s database.
I had to do it before when I updated my own blog system (before I totalled my site). I’ve decided to take the easy way out at last, but getting all my old posts back definitely wasn’t easy. However, it worked with amazing success and to top it off, it was all coded via SSH and nano 
Tags: General
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August 28th, 2008
Over a year ago a few friends and I decided to get back into playing some Tiberian Sun, an old favourite that we had neglected while we were playing Supreme Commander on our shiny new (at the time) 64bit dual core machines.
However, when we got around to installing and setting up a multiplayer game, we instantly ran into some problems. None of us could actually get to the Network lobby while using the IPX/SPX compatible protocol.
Tags: alert, C&C, fix, Game News, Games, lan, patch, red, sun, tiberian
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August 15th, 2008
Hola,
Welcome to my new blog. I’m currently in the process of converting all my old posts across from my old blogging system, so this site will be bare for a while till I get around to it. So you may as well come back later.
Ciao!
Tags: General
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March 4th, 2007
soulesscomic.com hosting ended and I couldn’t afford to stay with them so I’ve moved to A Small Orange. They seem pretty good at the moment other than their customer support when I had trouble. Got back to me pretty fast but not very helpful.
I’m working my way through MODES, had to put my Half Life 2 mod on hold until end of university however. I was getting into that a lot around christmas time, pity. Fixed my broken car, bought a new monitor to replace broken one, need to rearrange my jury duty. Last week has been a busy time, glad it’s slowing down again.
Tags: General
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August 18th, 2006
Firstly I’ve changed the project name to White Wolf. Reasons behind this are that wolves are one of two fav, animals and also there’s a lot more pictures around the net I can use of them. To make things easier for myself I’ve set up a wiki so I can save all my scripts, quests, items, characters and the rest of the stuff neatly.
Three exams down and only two more to go, Databases and Computational Maths. Fun. On a side note the thunder last night was awesome!
Tags: White Wolf Project
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August 15th, 2006
Last night I wrote the objectives and dialogue for a simple ‘Kill wolf pack’ quest that a farmer will ask the PC. I think I’m slightly influenced by the Fallout series because I’m determined to make sure there is a impatient, annoyed, evil and/or arrogant reply for every conversation branch. It’s a little harder to make sure it’s in but it’ll help when catering for the evil darker characters.
Wrote myself a nice little textpad syntax file for quests. If used with the right formatting it makes the dialogue trees much easier to read. It’s the small things I guess =).
Tags: White Wolf Project
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