Run Away Coder

So I have 9 Wave invites available and as much as I want to give them out via twitter I am not going to in this case .Drop me a mail and i’ll send you a invite .Do keep in mind that it takes a while for invites to arrive from the time I send them out.

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I really hoped I could get out a update sooner than this but it seemed life was against that ever happening , so anyway lotsa things going on.

So starting with the coolest first .I started a new Job at Chase Software which has really been keeping me busy , while it may not seem like a wise idea to change jobs during a recession, the opportunity’s for me to learn were just too great for me to not take up the offer. I am loving it to bits here just wish i could either get a place to stay closer to work or a Bike to make traffic a little easier. But thats a story for another day.

Secondly I decided to finally get started with one of my most anticipated projects , programming a Arduino. Now while its tough to get hold of one of these devices (in SA) I managed to get a locally made version called the Aarduino (Note the double ‘A’ ) its functionally the same as the Arduino diecimila except that it has a mini usb connector instead of the old USB connectors and non standard 9 volt connection (well its not standard for me but might be for others). So now that I finally received all the stuff i need my first project is rewiring my PC’s fan controls through the Aarduino so that i can control the noise and light output at night. Now I do know that there are components you can buy to do this but I have chosen to do it via a Arduino because i can :) .

Lastly google finally released Google maps for SA , now while this may not seem hugely important it is for me , because when I got my magic I gave away my Samsung Omnia which meant I had no real GPS, thankfully I can now use the Google maps on my Magic to get directions anywhere in SA which is a huge relief because one of my biggest fears is getting lost in a place I am not familiar with .

Well thats all for now , there is still a ton of stuff I am working on and just don’t have the time to share , in particular I hope to start a JavaScript tips section since there are some really awesome stuff that i have learnt to do using JavaScript and I think i should really share some of this info.

Also if you are interested in InfoSec the first SA InfoSec conference will be taking place next month get the details from ZaCon.org.za , Really hope to see some of the locals there.

Till next time.

~Stalkerh

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So I wrote up a very quick application for a friend of mine (who shall remain nameless till i get his permission) to check if a list of xbox live users are online.

The app is pretty small but works well , it doesn’t have any fancy features but that can always be added as required. I have Committed the code to Github, so if you want to play around with the app or just use the code head over to http://github.com/stalkerh/XboxLiveStatusChecker and check out the code.

There is still a bit of clean up that needs to be done on the repo but that will be more of a on going process as people have requests or bugs.

Please feel free to comment and criticize.

~stalkerh

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So what a weekend, Rage was freaking this awesome this past weekend. Getting the chance to play borderlands before it was released was one of the highlights of the weekend.

Hopefully I should be able to get all the many pictures that I took and put them in neat little collection on flickr. The only problem is that because I used multiple devices the pictures are all over the place so I just hope I don’t loose any of them.

While the LAN was awesome the expo was a little bit of a letdown. There was plenty of interesting things going on but for some reason it just didn’t have the same oomph that it had in previous years.

Hopefully I can get some time during the weekend to do a better write up.

~stallkerh

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Ok so i was really excited to try out DDO online , for those not in the know DDO stands for Dungeons and Dragons online.

Now since its a free to play game i decide that there was no point in not trying it out. So after a quick 4 gig download i decide that its time to register for a account. This is where the problems start , when I create a account it just gives me a random error not specifying at all what was wrong.

Now why does this bug me so much , because one of the things that you get when you buy a account is dedicated support. So what this basically meant is i had to either buy a account or use the free support system. While is not entirely bad , i think i have enough skill to be able to figure out whats wrong with the info i just put in.

So after looking around the net in general it seems that the problem was that either my ISP was not supported or that my region was not supported. So instead of telling me this from the start i had to waste time figuring it out my self.

While i did manage to bypass this stupid check I have to now login and see what happens, here’s hoping they let me login.

~stalkerh

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So this is my first post from android using wpToGo and I must say its pretty nice and effective.

This will also be my last post for a while.

~stalkerh

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Wow this is such a cool an interesting concept i cant believe i haven’t come across it before.

The basic concept is just like in golf you need to get to the destination in the minimum number of steps. In golf this would involve hitting a ball , in code golf this involves write as little code as possible.

Well one question quite a few people ask is how do you know you code has reached its destination. Well this is done by providing you with a set of input data , you must then write the code required to make your output match the output provided to you (this is only only one example).

If you think you would like a challenge like this (As i did) have a look at http://codegolf.com/, keep in mind they only use scripting languages.

~stalkerh

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So android market for the SA has finally been released , i am not sure when they meant to tell us but anyway when i checked yesterday the update was available.

And all i can say is YAY , i cant believe that i managed to survive up till now with out the market. The ease of use is just outstanding and there is just sooooooo many applications. Which brings me to my next problem , with all the apps out there its hard to find the best of the best , while the apps do have comments on each of them its just not the same as someone recommending a app to you.

So now begins the experimental phase in which i hope to find the best apps for android. I know @Rathlan said that he will try and do a monthly or weekly post with best apps for android which  i cant wait for now :) .

So if you have any suggestions please let me know.

~stalkerh

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Thanks again for confusing the hell out of me. So I am not sure if this is a bug or something that was designed this way.

So this weekend I finally sucked up and bought the Fable 2 Expansion. Now when I decide to start playing the expansion I could not find my save games, now this is pretty annoying for one because I had put quite a bit of time into the game. After a bit of pondering I realized that the save must be on my brothers 360 since mine had red ringed when the game came out.

So after checking the memory on his 360 I was right, my save was indeed there but it was listed as an unknown users save. Now to explain how the confusion came about I need to show you how the Saves were listed on the hardrive.

Save1 –> Unknown User

Save1 –> Hasan (Brothers Name)

Save2 –> Hasan (Brothers Name)

So I popped my brothers saves first onto my memcard and let him play as normal on my 360 (Since I have a bigger LCD than his, he enjoys using my 360). Later that night I decide what the hell let me play the new expansion as well and copy my save from his 360 onto the memcard , but when doing this it asks me if I want to overwrite my brothers existing Save1 .So after a quick check it seemed fine to overwrite the save since he wasn’t using the save. After plugging the memcard back into my 360 and launching the game I found that I couldn’t find my save game. After checking the system it seemed that the save had copied over onto the memcard. I then logged into my brothers profile and lo and behold my save was there but it was only valid in his 360 profile.

So basically what I figured was that during the overwrite the save is overwritten but it keeps the profile under the user that it was created as. So to fix this I simply created a save using my profile and then overwrote it again with my brothers save. This sorted out the problem but it still begs the question why did the overwrite not overwrite everything (in the save file). I guess the alternative would have been for me to delete the save and then move my save but it’s not the easiest way to get a simple task done.

O well that’s that let me know if you had anything similar.

~stalkerh

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Yay so my bleach manga finally arrived yesterday and man does it look awesome. So i love reading manga and comics but up until a few months ago i could not really buy much since i had a lot of debt to pay of.

So now my buying sprees have started , i purchased 21 volumes of bleach and with each volume being over 100 pages i think that this was one of the best buys ever.

Here are a few pics i snapped with my Magic (better res pics will go up as soon as i can get hold of the pictures my brother took). Click to see larger images

Cover Art Front

Front Open

Back Art

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