Computing
Greasemonkey Reddit Filter
I've been learning a bit of JavaScript - and this is one of the things I've come up with, so far.
Reddit Filter is fairly simple; it allows you to filter out submissions from certain URLs using a regular expression. Want to give it a shot? Follow these brief instructions:
Install GreaseMonkey - this is a neat […]
Adobe Flash has been poorly implemented into the Internet
Adobe Flash is an incredible tool, and over the past ten years the increasing number of innovations achieved with it have been astounding. Adobe claims that more than 99% of internet users have Flash installed, and with the high proportion of websites which make use of it, it's not difficult to see why.
Flash, however, in a similar manner to Adobe Acrobat, has a tendency to make me seeth with frustration - not because of its own shortcomings, but the decisions of those who use it to create applications, games and websites. Its problem is not one there is an easy solution to - and that is the lack of standards set by the aforementioned creators of .swf files.
Thanks, Facebook!
Finally. A way to get rid of all of those masses of damned requests.
Google, also an impressive calculator, apparently
Google has surprised me again. I've always known you can search for 'Speed of Light' and before the results google will give you the answer. But it turns out you can enter pretty much any equation and be given the result straight off:
It gets better: if you use Firefox 2 or have the Google toolbar, […]
Please, Celebrities, Stop Exposing Yourselves …
I moderate a forum on a different site, and lately we've been having a spam problem. Each new captcha or human verification we add just triggers whoever writes these bots to work around it, sometimes in a matter of days. It's an incredibly popular site to begin with, so adding admin verification would be impractical.
There […]
Beginning programming with C#
You've read Daniel's article on becoming a coder, you've had a look at PHP/Python, and maybe even written some programs. Now you've decided to move on and create some nifty code that uses a GUI, with menus, buttons, and all the other things that users expect. Using Python or PHP this can be done, but with rather a lot of difficulty.
In my opinion, a much better solution, especially for Windows developers, is to use Microsoft's C# (pronounced as C-Sharp) language. You can download Visual Studio Express 2008 C# edition for free, a complete C# Integrated Development Environment, with an easy-to-use form editor and a nice code editor. Also in the install program is the option to install SQL Server Express, a database server that works well with C#. SQL Server is a nice addition to have, if you decide to do some programs with databases, but be wary that it is an additional ~30mb to download.
Using Eventscripts to mod CS Source
My last article detailed how to write a very simple mod for Counter Strike Source servers; here, I plan to go into more detail. I will assume basic knowledge of Python, and an understanding of how to create a simple addon on your source server - essentially I plan to discuss Eventscripts' API and features.
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Is Your Email Safe?
It surprises me that there is not more fraud on the internet. In fact, it's enough to give a renewed faith in the majority people that run their own websites.
I'm a student, and in my spare time I do some web design, and some coding - among other things. I'd consider myself fairly adept at […]
Five days of Ubuntu Linux
Last wednesday I ordered a new laptop. I'll definitely be installing Vista on it, if only for gaming and DirectX 10, but I also plan to use it as an excuse to get to grips with Linux. I've used Windows all my life, 3.1 followed by 95, 98, 2000 and now XP, and I'd describe myself as fairly competent at working with it: this would be a pretty new experience for me. A few years ago I'd installed Fedora Core 4, and I wasn't impressed a great deal, but this time I decided to go with Ubuntu. This distribution, from what I've read, seems to be fast entering the realms of user-friendly for those with no experience of Linux - that is, it would hopefully be less like jumping in at the deep end and hoping to surface. Ubuntu's apparent popularity among those looking for a place to start in looking for a Linux based alternative to Windows, made it seem like an increasingly good place to start.
