BlackHC’s Adventures in the Dev World

Long ago (about three weeks ago to be correct) I still had lots of free time and no university lectures yet, so I decided to look at all - I repeat: at all 1000-something - Cyanide & Happiness comic strips on www.explosm.net and make a collection of the ones that I liked the most. Of course my collection isn’t complete and I got pretty tired at the end but I still think I’ve found quite a few gems among the strips.

I’ve stored them as a list of links in a raw txt file (it can be found here, if you want take a look a it) and it wasn’t really usable the way it was. I wanted to put it on my blog though to let others view it in a comfortable way but since I didn’t have enough time I postponed it.. till yesterday. Yesterday I’ve finally found enough time to sit down and think and code something nice to let you (and myself, too) browse through my favorites.

You can find the final page here: http://www.icculus.org/~black/stuff/explosm/explosmviewer.html

How does it work?

It uses AJAX! Well actually it only uses XMLHttpRequest to query the .dat file that stores a preprocessed list of C&H links (plus the respective image links) and uses that data to let you browse my favorites dynamically but it contains the code to create the said .dat file out of my raw .txt file.

Consequently if I ever update my list I can do so simply by updating the .txt file with a few links and regenerate the .dat file with all additional information.

I’m mostly using some RegExp to parse the Explosm pages and my .txt and .dat files. If you want to try the code out yourself, mind that you need to uncomment the compileList( true ); line and use Internet Explorer to run it because FireFox doesn’t allow cross-domain access which is naturally needed if you want to parse the pages on explosm.net. The result is copied into the clipboard and can be then saved and uploaded to the webspace of choice (if you adapt the links in the script, too).

Enjoy

Cheers,
Andreas

I guess you don’t know what a games company looks like. And even if you think you do, let me add some adjectives that will change everything: an great games company. a cool games company. a SplashDamage-esque game company.
You get the idea.

We, that is the #q3mods channel, had a meeting recently at Arnout’s, Gordon’s and David’s place on the 8th and 9th of March ‘08 - it’s like Friends, the tv series, only they have got a house, a bigger TV, lots of game and Guitar Hero 3 \o/ They were so kind to let me stay in the dungeon - the basement - for a week and I spent all of my free time playing Guitar Hero or watching them work at SplashDamage’s office, which was grand. I can’t really say a lot more, otherwise I’d get torn to pieces by some attorneys for violating the NDA I’ve signed but let me repeat: It was awesome. I took quite a few pictures of the office though (and the people in it) and have even uploaded them to flickr, so here we go. Enjoy.

The meeting itself was also awesome. We all at the their place, played games (Guitar Hero!! and lots of Wii games), watched movies, ordered pizza and Chinese and even ate it all up, too, and had a splendid time.

Cheers,
Andreas

I’ve linked to a few pictures directly, in case you’re too lazy to follow the other link and only want to see the office ASAP.

Continue reading SplashDamage Photos on Flickr…

This is the final Java homework in our Java introductory course at university. Enjoy
Click here to play the game
Greetings,
Black

Today I was waiting for the care-taker to arrive and take a look at some installation issues and while I was waiting I decided to browse a bit around in xkcd. And well… there are a few links that might worth sharing - and I’m not going to link Cat Proximity again this time!

And here are the other ones that I’ve found interesting while randomly browsing through the archive:

• Nihilism
• Orphaned Projects
• Banter
• Katamari
• Just Alerting You (the one I’ve directly linked above)

So enough of that, there’s more work to be done!

Cheers,
Black