New year, new game: Escape

Posted by on 15. January 2012 No comments

Although I started coding this game in 2011, I’ll make it the first project 2012 for me. But what exactly is this “Escape” game? Well, escape is a simple dungeon game where the goal is to find the key and exit of …

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3T Update: Text based Tic Tac Toe Version 1.1

Posted by on 18. September 2011 No comments
Screenshot of text based tic tac toe 3T

Now, that I found some time, I added complete network code to 3T the text based tic tac toe. It’s only a peer to peer connection for now, but I will add some dedicated server code later. Stay tuned and …

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Code Snippet: Youtube playlist downloader

Posted by on 12. September 2011 No comments

A few months ago, I wrote a tiny ruby script I never released, that made it possible to download Youtube playlists and convert them to mp3 files. Unfortunately Youtube changed many things since that time and my script did not …

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“404 – File not found” vs. META tag noindex

Posted by on 19. August 2010 1 comment

Many web pages include a site search these days, that makes it possible for users to search content exactly on the page they are and not on the whole web, but what should one do, if no results were found? …

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Code snippet: Export simplenews subscribers from drupal to CSV

Posted by on 2. August 2010 4 comments

Some of you may know the newsletter module simplenews for drupal. If you’ve ever tried it, I am sure you soon realized, it’s a mess. The template functionality is too complicated and poor, emails are send via cron, you have …

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Day two of Ruby programming: (For now) It’s fun…

Posted by on 25. July 2010 No comments

Day two of getting more into Ruby programming and I must say: Ruby can be fun! Okay, a few people seem to be really mad about it and see the language as an answer to everything, but I think there …

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Code Snippet: Making a HTTP GET request with ruby

Posted by on 24. July 2010 2 comments

I had to get into some ruby programming for my job and so I decided to refresh my memories a bit more. It became more or less a tradition of mine to write some network or internet code to get …

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