Category Archives: Development

Generating useful history logs from Mercurial

February 21, 2011 – 8:19 pm

I recently decided to keep my software under a proper configuration control system, and for reasons I won’t go into I picked Mercurial. Something I wanted to do was to make Mercurial produce change history for my projects, but with a “useful” output. That’s to say that the end user of some software won’t care [...]

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Background downloading to the Belkin N+

July 12, 2010 – 12:28 pm

Not so long ago I decided to upgrade my router with a nice shiny new one. I opted for the Belkin N+ (the F5D8635uk4A to be overly specific). It’s a nice router, with a bundle of features that I don’t really intend to use. One feature that’s great tho’ is the built-in USB port, which [...]

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Random files and Image Stitching in DOS

August 20, 2009 – 8:30 pm

I’m a bit of a fan of command prompts and batch files. Geeky yes, and most other geeks would probably hate the fact that I rather like doing things in Windows command line interpreter (cmd.exe). “Hey, I could find a random file in a single-line perl script, and it would stitch two images together, and [...]

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WIP: Upcoming Production

April 11, 2008 – 2:27 pm

I’m always interested to see what people are working on, and I think it can add to some excitement and expectation – sometimes unfounded, but often it gives a good idea of what’s to come. For example playing beta versions of games – sure they may be a little rough around the edges, but they [...]

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raww.orgy 2008 player

February 22, 2008 – 10:45 am

Well my latest release has been, uhm, released – it’s the player from last weekend’s raww.orgy demoparty. It’s a simple enough idea – a single program to both show the graphics entries for the competition, and to also play the music. For those who have seen the previous party-players, yes it’s based on the same [...]

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Theme me up Scottie

February 12, 2008 – 6:28 pm

While I was in the process of upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, I figured it may be a good time to switch themes… to the bland one you have in front of you. I think it looks nice, even if it’s a little simple, and it’s not changed much since I tested it [...]

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Theme Test

June 21, 2007 – 12:28 pm

Just before I head off to a meeting I thought I’d try out the in-development theme. It’s far from complete but I want to see how it renders in a variety of browsers, and the easiest way to do that is to activate it and use browsershots.org, a fantastic free service that provides you with [...]

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