Archive for the 'programming' Category

PHP-SciTE

As a PHP developer I’ve tried many different IDEs but have always ended going back to SciTE. I started using a version with modifications by Bruce Dodson, but got frustrated with it not listing PHP files in the default “File Open” window, and not recognizing PHP5 files as PHP files, so I got to tinkering.
I [...]

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

MySQL auto-timestamping triggers

I used to be dead against things like triggers… mainly because I hated coding them (and SQL) back when I learnt Oracle PL/SQL at college, and I’ve always been a “bare-minimum, must-be-backward-compatible, code-it-yourself” programmer… but now I’ve decided it’s just much easier to use them, and it’s not my fault if people refuse to upgrade [...]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Turn your S60 phone into an SMS interface for your web application

A company called Fromdistance has released a program for Series 60 Symbian cell phones, which allow you to use your phone as a Web Application SMS Gateway.
Basically you download the Series 60 (Symbian) client and install it on your phone. It will check their server for any “queued” messages, and if it finds any it [...]

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Diablo II 1.12 patch + Inventory Hack

It looks like Blizzard have released an update for Diablo II (1.12), which allows you to play without the CD. This update meant that a hack Antivoid and I wrote a little while ago doesn’t work anymore, so I had to update it:
Diablo II LoD 1.12a Inventory Hack
This hack allows you to view, or replace, [...]

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Warcraft III 1.22 Map Hack

Blizzard are going to be releasing the latest patch (1.22) for Warcraft 3 soon, so I got it and wrote a map hack for it today - and it’s only 4 bytes in memory that I change :|
This map hack gives you a fully revealed map and mini-map, allows you to click on any and [...]

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Hypn’s Stacraft 1.15.2 Map Hack

I FINALLY made a Starcraft map hack… which I’ve been wanting to do for years - yay me. I made a War3 map hack some time back, but was really battling to make one for Starcraft.
I’ve spent HOURS in the past (not to mention all of last Saturday) trying to make one, but then sat [...]

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

FaceWound hacks

There’s a game called “FaceWound“, a (self-titled) “Zombie Murder Simulator“, which the author of Garry’s Mod has been working on for a few years. He recently released the latest version for free, though he says “it’s totally unfinished, unpolished and should be treated with the same attitude you’d treat a leaked alpha with” - despite [...]

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Learning LINGO

My brother has to learn “LINGO” for varsity… basically it’s a programming language “to make building and solving linear, nonlinear and integer optimization models”. Yeh I’m not really sure what any of that means either, but I’m the computer programmer in the family, and my brother’s the genius/mathematician so I said I’d try and figure [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Ruby on Rails

I’m trying to learn Ruby… on Rails.
sereNity is helping me :)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008