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Mar

My First Featurette - C# Extension Methods

Submitted by admin on 28 March 2012 - 2:43pm

I think it's about time I write a featurette on my website which goes into detail about a specific aspect of programming, and my first shall be on the power of C# Extension Methods. Here I will quickly discuss what Extension Methods are, and then will go on to sharing my current favourite Extension Methods that I use with my C# projects. Hopefully the featurette will be interesting and helpful for those developing with C#.

Feb

Drivers, you are not above the law

Submitted by admin on 28 February 2012 - 2:55pm

Thoughts from my phone

Seriously, what makes you think you can consistently turn off at a junction and not make the effort to flick the indicator stork to indicate change of direction? The amount of times I've nearly been run over by drivers not indicating and then blaming me for getting in their way is simply staggering.

The indicators are not there just for road users...

If someone would give me legal power to do so, I would most happily shoot out the tyres on vehicles where drivers forget to do this ever-so-simple act.

Feb

Cyclists, you are not above the law

Submitted by admin on 21 February 2012 - 6:22pm

Thoughts from my phone

Seriously, what makes you think you can legally run that red light right in the middle of law-abiding pedestrians trying to cross the road?

Feb

Using .htaccess to password-protect domains/sub-domains

Submitted by admin on 13 February 2012 - 4:18pm

Some time ago I was in need of a way of password-protecting a Drupal site using the multi-site feature, but only wanting to protect certain sites of the multi-site, and not all of it. Additionally, the extra sites were not in separate directories. I had a bit of trouble trying to find a decent solution, but I managed to find this nugget of information using .htaccess:

SetEnvIf Host dev.example.com need_auth
 
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
 
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
Deny from env=need_auth
Satisfy Any

Jan

2D Metaballs

Submitted by admin on 25 January 2012 - 1:07am

So while developing my current in-progress title, I had the need to create some textures procedurally, and they needed to look lava-lamp-ish. There's one effect I know which can create this lava-lamp-ish look: metaballs!

Nov

The Attack of the Rings, now with Bars

Submitted by admin on 18 November 2011 - 11:51am

So yesterday I posted a bit of work I did with HTML5, JS and jQuery, which resulted in a lot of rings changing colour, value and moving up and down. This has now gone into much more elaborate territory, as I now add bars to the mix!

Nov

The Attack of the Rings

Submitted by admin on 17 November 2011 - 3:23pm

Over the past few days I have been messing around with HTML5 and jQuery, in particular, with using canvas, and have created a quick test webpage demonstrating some of the things that I have learned during this time.

I must say, it is very easy to use, and you can achieve very good results with very little effort.

Nov

The Great Purge has begun

Submitted by admin on 14 November 2011 - 11:53am

Mollom
Purge

Oh look, 2 Blog posts in the space of 7 days, what has happened?!?

So, I have decided to begin the Great Purge on my website for spam. Hopefully now there should be no spam comments and the likes on this website, and I have also upped my spam filters by integrating Mollom into the website as well.

Nov

It's been a while, I'm just not used to this blogging malarcky

Submitted by admin on 11 November 2011 - 12:15pm

So yeah I haven't posted here in a long while, nor have I actually done that much with the website. I'm a bit bad really, and I can only apologise.

No wait, I don't need to apologise, I'm way too busy at the moment to do anything, that's my reasoning!

Jun

I've gone and done it again!

Submitted by admin on 20 June 2011 - 6:22pm

Yes, I know I say everytime that I won't go changing the website, and I go and do so just a few moments later. However, I feel that in this case, this will remain for the forseeable future, since I actually developed the website and theme all by myself (along with some structural help from Drupal, my new favourite Content Management System.