Archive for February, 2010
In a previous post I talked about a failed board game idea and I implied I might try it as a web-based game. Well after a lot of work on that I decided to take a break and try a game on Steam. Turns out I bought a game a while ago by the name [ READ MORE ]
JavaScript does not offer a lot of things one would imagine would be included in such a seasoned scripting language. Below are a few functions I wrote to fill some gaps. Trimming the whitespace off both sides of a string function trim(str) { return str.replace(/^\s\s*/, "").replace(/\s\s*$/, ""); }; Padding the start of a string function pad(str, len, padding) { str += ""; if [ READ MORE ]
I was working on a combat-based board game for a number of months. I started off with some ideas I thought were unique and built from there. After a lot of work and begging threatening bribing asking people to help me play test I was slowly forced to either modify or remove my unique ideas [ READ MORE ]
Most DVDs you will come across are CSS encrypted. When you rely on a open source operating system that aims to be free, like Linux, this can prove to be a problem for you. The following script will allow Debian (including Ubuntu) to play commercial DVDs. #!/bin/sh # Shell script to install libdvdcss under Debian GNU Linux # [ READ MORE ]
An article [original, free registration required] over at Medscape mentions some finding that may be a step forward in the fight against psychosis for some patients. Researchers found that a 12-month regiment of omega-3 fatty acids reduced or eliminated full-blown psychosis compared to placebo by 22.6%. They also found that these benefits continued for up [ READ MORE ]