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This is my unfinished prototype for the Experimental Gameplay Project January 2011 theme of "Inanimate". Working title: "Hued awakening".
I was in two minds as to whether to post it: unfortunately I've only had time this month to work on it 4 of the allowed 7 days (and much of that was spent in setup since I haven't done any serious graphical programming before). Some of the concept is done but no real gameplay. So come back here after trying it out for the story about how it's MEANT to work.
This is an XML diff tool that takes two XML documents and produces an XSL stylesheet describing the differences between them. Transforming the first document with the stylesheet will produce the second document again. This is useful for diffing/patching XML files.
In my game design workshop this week, the task was to come up with and iteratively redesign and prototype a game based on two fundamental concepts provided by another team: an action, and a feeling.
I gave out "flying" and "nausea", and that group had fun making a terribly sickening game where one player is an airplane, spins around rapidly five times, and tries to "land" at an airport - another player - by touching their hand. Dizziness and nausea does indeed rapidly ensue.
Oysterband are one of my favourite bands, and I've had the privilege of hearing them live many times. My second-favourite song of theirs is "Another Quiet Night in England", but nothing I find through a Google search gives me the correct lyrics - at least for the version I have. Strange, but here's the real lyrics of Oysterband's "Another Quiet Night in England":
Just another quiet night in England
And far away, the dogs are barking
Just another quiet night in England
Rubbish burns in an empty mall
And money rides while people crawl
And another quiet night goes by
david@netman1:~$ ssh -l admin msa01.storage admin@msa01.storage's password: shell request failed on channel 0
I was trying to the transcribe the epic music from Doctor Who series 5, but it's been a very long time since I've had any musical training. So I figured I'll put it here in case someone else can do a better job. dr_series_5preview is the source MP3 I was working off - the ID3 tag claims the song is named "Every Star, Every Planet". There's also an attempt at "Quiz Wizard", the old Blockbusters theme music.
Here is a class that allows you to read the Windows Registry without having to install any JNI library. It is implemented purely using introspection and will therefore compile and run on any platform. It would be possible to extend this to also write to the registry, but I didn't need this functionality. I hesistate to call this "pure Java" as it does make native calls, but it does avoid the need for external dependencies to do so.
java.util.prefs is great. Since it arrived, I've not had to worry about storing configuration in property files, or where those files should go. It abstracts away any platform differences and stores the preferences in a suitable place for the platform, e.g. in the registry under Windows.
I recently received a request to allow an application to have its configuration stored in a file instead of the registry. The user wanted it to run on any computer from a flash drive, with the configuration moving too. You can easily change the Preferences implementation using the java.util.prefs.PreferencesFactory system property, but the Sun JVM only ships with the platform-specific Preferences implementation, i.e. WindowsPreferences under Windows. I therefore needed to create my own Preferences implementation, which is detailed in this article.
I've been investigating why qmail has been looping some messages through the same server. Even though MX records are configured correctly, the headers indicate that it is been sent back to the same server repeatedly until it reaches the hop limit.