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HoboBen

Commander Keen 6 and 3.5
14th June 2010

episode 6, Episode 3.5, ''keen dreams'' available to download.
Neither were included in Steam's ''complete commander keen'' pack due to licensing issues, but 3.5 was published as shareware by a different company. I'm not entirely sure abou*snip*

HoboBen

Luhn algorithm
10th June 2010

The Luhn algorithm is a really simple check-digit algorithm - it is trivial to implement, and the method is easy to remember. You can, if needed, do this one in your head!

HoboBen

Rounding - different tie-breaking methods
10th June 2010

I didn't realise there was more than one method. I quite like Banker's rounding, and I thought the section on Dithering was especially useful.

HoboBen

Network programming in Age of Empires [PDF]
4th June 2010

Network programming in Age of Empires [PDF]

HoboBen

Commander Keen beta discovered on 20 year old disk!
28th May 2010

''A pre-release copy of Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons was discovered on a 20 year old floppy disk, and can be downloaded or played online at RGB Classic Games.
The amazing discovery came when a forum member posted a disk image of a Gamer's*snip*

HoboBen

The Ur-Quan Masters
27th May 2010

An open-source remake of Star Control 2

HoboBen

w3c cheat sheet
23rd May 2010

Can't remember the CSS/HTML name or syntax? Start typing it in, it'll autocomplete

HoboBen

Free BSD remote shell
26th April 2010

Incredibly useful - your own remote BSD shell to connect to via SSH.
I just signed up and got an account - fantastic stuff!
Features:
1. Unrestricted shell access via SSH
2. Access to all standard software - compilers, IRC clients, mail clients, screen*snip*

HoboBen

SQLite - source code to test code - ratio of 1:679
21st April 2010

[quote]The reliability and robustness of SQLite is achieved in part by thorough and careful testing.
As of version 3.6.23 (all statistics in the report are against that release of SQLite), the SQLite library consists of approximately 67.2 KSLOC of C code.*snip*

HoboBen

Google now has a page up showing government takedown requests by country
20th April 2010

Click on a stat for more detailed info.
God damn, I loves me some Google sometimes.

HoboBen

Autonomous towel-folding robot [video]
4th April 2010

I hope these are expensive, otherwise I'd be completely obsolete.

HoboBen

Jamendo Pro
9th March 2010

Jamendo is a great website for creative-commons music. But did you know you can buy a commercial license to use the tracks for as little as 12 euros/track?

HoboBen

(Game Design) Too Awesome To Use
8th March 2010

This really bugs me.
At the end of Dragon Age: Origins (or pretty much any RPG I've ever played) I'm left with an inventory full of super-powerful arrows that I never used because I didn't want to waste them. Instead I used the arrows with the basic &quot*snip*

HoboBen

iEvolution
28th February 2010

Source

HoboBen

Pokemon, remade in Garry's Mod!
26th February 2010

Garrymon Ep01 - Garrymon: I Choose You!

HoboBen

Steam Beta Update!!!
24th February 2010

Now using a WebKit based rendering engine for the client and in-game overlay web browsing components (replacing Internet Explorer)
HELL YEAH!!!
Also includes a clock in the in-game overlay.... HELL YEAH!!!

HoboBen

Pure CSS 3D Coke Can
24th February 2010

With a visualiser to see how it works here

HoboBen

Firefox 3.6 - reset tab behaviour
20th February 2010

''In Firefox 3.6, links opened from a web page (middle-clicking on them or from the context menu) open to the right of the current page to keep related content closer by default. To restore the previous behavior, access the advanced preferences by visi*snip*

HoboBen

Was it 'shopped? Image Error Level Analyser
18th February 2010

[quote]Error level analysis can help you work out if a photo has been digitally altered. Photos in a jpeg file format actually lose quality each time they are resaved. We can take advantage of this to try and work out if an image has been digitally manipul*snip*

HoboBen

Steganography with a Deck of Cards! Hide a message by ordering 52 cards...
17th February 2010

There are 52! unique ways to put 52 playing cards in order. By establishing a mathematical correspondence between an order of letters and the order of cards, we can hide a message in the deck of cards by simply putting them in the correct order.

HoboBen

Opera for iPhone
15th February 2010

HoboBen

gedit.... for windows!!!
15th February 2010

gedit text editor... now on windows!

HoboBen

Cambridge Face Memory Test
6th February 2010

Test your facial recognition skills.
The average person with normal face recognition was able to recognize about 80% of the faces. If you correctly identified less than 65% of the faces, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.
I got 61%... worry*snip*

HoboBen

reddit.com/r/gamedev/
27th January 2010

Topics submitted to reddit's gamedev subreddit

HoboBen

Link
22nd January 2010
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