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This could’ve been written better, but I still stand by just about everything in it. I’ve vague recollections of just hammering the thing out and posting it. Myers was and remains somebody who ought to have been a wankstain on his father’s underpants. I’m glad …
Reactor is a game I’ve been meaning to write for a while. It’s a conversion of a board game I originally wrote on the C-64 called Reaction (not to be confused with Reaxion, a rather good tile flipping game).
Here’s some graphics I knocked out showing the …
Now, here’s something worth blogging about! I’d been wondering why there was no activity on Inform for years.
Graham Nelson has just released Inform 7. Now, this is no incremental release, it’s a revolutionary release!
Inform is a system for developing interactive fiction (or adventure games, as …
My sleep patterns are really screwed up.
I ended drifting off to sleep at 9pm last night, and woke around 3.30am. In an effort to send myself back to sleep, I knocked out PLGX, a small DHTML-based presentation system for those of us who neither want nor need …
Here‘s the Breaking News article.
What kind of fools does he take us for? Really. There wasn’t a cognizant person in this country who didn’t think there’s be some trouble. Does he really think that saying that “An Garda Siochana had prepared for a low key …
I’ve to check out of the hotel at 12pm. My flight’s just after 7pm. I might be meeting up with Mark later, which would help kill a lot of time. Of course, that’s all moot unless I can check in early.
Good news is I managed to …
Clashes in Dublin over loyalist march.
It’s time for some righteous anger and disgust from me over what’s been happening back home. However utterly wrongheaded and pointless I think the “Love Ulster” march was, I’d no problem with it going ahead. However, the last thing anybody with …
I don’t know whether it was that I picked up the ‘flu that’s been going around the office, or if I ate something bad while I was here, but I was in a complete mess Friday and Saturday. I was completely out of my head Saturday morning, but …
I received the DSL modem earlier today. I’m just testing it out right now. It’s sooooo fast! This rocks!
One annoyance though: I ordered a DSL modem with a wireless hub built in so that I could work in peace and quiet and not have to sit in …
Formkeys are something I first discovered when snooping around the source for Slashcode many, many moons ago. The idea is to embed a hidden field in a form that can be later used to check if a form has been submitted twice, or if somebody’s attempting to use it …
After three months of trying to get broadband off them, first satellite and later DSL, I’ve finally got Digiweb to activate my DSL.
This all really should have been done a month ago, but until today, they’ve kept putting me off, giving excuses like “we’re waiting on …
[Note from 2020: Syncope eventually ended up as AFK]
Here’s how Syncope, the kinda-but-not-really-a-framework I mentioned before, works. It’s really just a library with a bunch of canned request lifecycles. Those are the only parts of it that vaguely resemble a framework. It’s made to be as …
My vitriol isn’t just reserved for others. No, I’m quite happy to lash out at myself when it’s appropriate. There’s a lot of things I really don’t like about the code I wrote to drive this site. I thought it’d be good to get …
[Update from 2020: This post is mean. I appear to have been very angry at myself when I wrote this. It looks like it turned into an exercise in beating myself up. Some of it did come true: I got up to 105kg a few years ago, but managed to …
I promised myself I wouldn’t get involved in this rubbish again, but I can’t help myself: I’m just a glutton for punishment.
Why to people persist in bandying about the old trope of irreducible complexity? Orson Scott Card in an article on the eighth of this month …
Joel Spolsky posted on his site about several instances where where he needed to modify the Project Aardvark (Copilot) Functional Specification.
It was all fine, and stuff I agree with myself, up until close to the end where he wrote:
I can’t tell you how strongly I believe in …
In preparation for possibly adding a WYSIWYG editor to the site—mainly because people don’t seem to read the formatting instructions—I’ve written the best part of a HTML scrubber to ensure that the HTML markup returned from the poster’s browser doesn’t contain anything dodgy and …
This is an excellent explaination about what must be one of the most puzzling parts of AWT/Swing development: the GridBagLayout layout manager.
The original was an MS Word file. I converted it to LaTeX for my own use, but I think others might find it useful too. I redid …
About a fortnight ago, I was poking around the copy of Perl sitting on my laptop. I came across Memoize.pm. Having read the article that inspired it a few years back, I thought I’d take an attempt at implementing something to do the same in JavaScript.
Memoization is …
…is PHP, so why not use it?
function include_view($view, $vars=null) {
# Start buffering the generated text.
ob_start();
# Process the view.
if (!is_null($vars)) {
extract($vars, EXTR_OVERWRITE | EXTR_REFS);
}
include("views/$view.php");
# Grab the generated content and clean up.
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $content;
}