Ive swapped theme on this blog, the old one was getting a bit dated and i was having some problems reading posts after the faded background disappeared. The wite text on the black background was rather hard on the eyes, i think it has something to do with the font that was in use.
So ive [...]
The Latest Version of the Steam Gamer Card is now here!
This new version implements all the caching ideas i had come up with whilst making the other versions. So when the cacher is run (once every 10 mins at the moment) this process occours:
Load all the Steam Profile Links into an array
Download every profile to [...]
I have recently finished a new look version of the steam gamer card!
The card now looks like this:
The background is pulled in and then the information is simply placed on top of it. There is no change in how it functions, i have a couple of ideas on how to make it function better and [...]
Any of you that read the forums will have noticed a new project section entitled “Steam GamerCard”. This is for my latest project, that is an Xbox Live style GamerCard for Steam.
It uses your steam profile at the time that the image was requested, this means that it is able to show your current status, [...]
My IRC Bot Silverhold has for the past few weeks been storing all the messages received in its database. This means that now with a PHP page it is possible to generate statistics from the database. I am still in the process of writing the PHP to do this, but it is coming along nicely. [...]
I use phpsysinfo on my server (http://whitefall.arcath.net/phpsysinfo). This allows me to view up to the second information about the server. A rather useful feature of this program is that it works in 2 steps, it generates xml and then parses it. This means that another program can parse the xml aswell.
I have written a wordpress [...]
IRC Bots are something i have been intrested in for a while now, i have personally written 3 bots, each 1 “evolutionary” stage on from the previous one. The first bot i wrote was “Whitefall” and was written in PHP. It was a very simple bot, it could join the channel, tell us the the [...]
I have spent allot of time recently writing a new CMS for arcath.net. And as part of it i decided that it would be nice to have a CAPTCHA image.
At first i searched the internet for a pre written block of code that would let generate one for me. I Found a couple of good [...]
For the Game Server Stats i needed to decode the mani stats file that was generated for CSS and TF2. When i looked at the stats file i noticed that the record for each player varied in length, this is because the mani admin plugin will not store stats for GunA if i have never [...]
If you have content that you only want to display when the user is accessing your site form a certain IP, like for example if you are the site admin and have a static IP, or if you want to display a link to your company intranet when the user is coming from your companies [...]