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This week has seen some interesting code. I’m currently working on my MEDA302 (Graphics) coursework mostly this has meant me brushing up on my C++ skills and figuring out how to use the SDL and SDL_gfx libraries. The coursework is really interesting, to make a simple 3D program that does scaling, translation, rotation and a [...]

No, I don’t mean the thing inside curly brackets.
I was looking around on the web and I found something that describes my current state with my final year project fairly well http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6744&cid=889873. Yep, I’m suffering from programmers block.
I’ve recently decided to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for the database because it has better support [...]

I’ve been working all day to perfect a small but useful calendar displayer.
I’ve added the code for monthView to the website’s projects section.
I have used vim so much today that I keep using vim keybindings where I’m not supposed to.:w

I’m in a bad mood today. I was woken up by drilling and sawing because my dad is dismantling the bathroom which is right next to my room. My parents don’t understand why I sleep at odd times but then again they’re “day people” unlike me. I prefer the night, it’s quieter (good for coding) [...]

Been doing more work on this site behind-the-scenes. There is now a custom 404 page. My logging script now records error codes with entries also so that I can easily find their source.
During work on the custom 404 page I got a error that basically meant: Warning “Page not found” error page was not found. [...]

My blog is now fully PHPed. I am using a DATETIME type to store the dates it’s an official type instead of that hack I threw together that was a BIGINT. I now convert the DATETIME into a Unix timestamp so that I can re-format it as a string.
/*converts the DATETIME to a Unix timestamp*/
function [...]

I’d forgotten how fun debugging can be. I was helping Ben with a script last night from 11:45pm to about 4:05am (thank goodness for caffeine mints). It in nice to get things working and also to show off my 1337 5|<i11z

I was also working on my own blog script, the one [...]

Yesterday I wrote a script to log visitors to this site. It is working very well. I know that two people have visited already from google after searching for “how to play emacs Dunnet” and “dunnet emacs“. So I added a link to a Dunnet walkthrough.
I’ve also written a couple of simple SQL queries to [...]