Monthly Archives: October, 2009
links for 2009-10-29
Three Strikes And You Automate
Three Strikes And You Automate
* The first time you do something, you just do it manually.
* The second time you do something similar, you wince at the repetition, but you do it anyway.
* The third time you do something similar, you automate. AutomationIsOurFriend.
(tags: programming development scripts)
links for 2009-10-28
Alternate Sorting Orders – Blog – Stack Overflow
If a comment has one upvote and zero downvotes, it has a 100% upvote rate, but since there’s not very much data, the system will keep it near the bottom. But if it has 10 upvotes and only 1 downvote, the system might have enough confidence to place [...]
links for 2009-10-26
pumpkin carving bowser(1050×1200)
pumpkin carving
(tags: diy mario nintendo pumpkin carving)
Fifty
Fifty is a fast pace game that lasts about 5 mins or so with three players.
What you need to play
2 dice
A score sheet
2 or more players
The object of the game
To be the first player to reach 50 points.
How to play the game
Each player takes turns rolling the dice. The player scores 5 points every time [...]
links for 2009-10-21
Farrago: Dice Bag Project d6
Inspired by the d12 and d20 bags at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories (thanks, Olivia!), I decided to try my hand at making dice bags that look like dice. Genius!
(tags: crafts diy d6 geek project)
New and improved d12 bag: How to build it – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
(tags: sewing bag bags pattern [...]
winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ‘;’ before identifier ‘ContextRecord’
Anther annoying compiling error.
Compile error
c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0a\include\winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ‘;’ before identifier ‘ContextRecord’
c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0a\include\winnt.h(5545) : error C4430: missing type specifier – int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0a\include\winnt.h(5545) : error C4430: missing type specifier – int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0a\include\winnt.h(11263) [...]
links for 2009-10-19
Boardgame geek – review
(tags: ganes boardgames)
Disarm The Bomb
Disarm The Bomb is a drinking game.
What you will need
4 cans of beer
tape (duck tap works the best)
How to play the game
First, you need to tape together four beer cans in a cube shape, each one pointing in a different direction. Next, you take the person whose job it is to diffuse the bomb and [...]
links for 2009-10-14
MockFlow – Online Wireframe Tool for Software and Websites
MockFlow is an online tool for creating wireframes of software and websites. It helps to enhance your planning process by enabling to quickly design and share interactive UI mockups. It also comes with ready-to-use 70+ Components and 200+ icons, all designed to suit wireframing.
(tags: wireframe mockup wireframes [...]
Dirty Hearts
Dirty Hearts is a Drinking, Cards game
What you need to play
1 deck of cards
3 or more players
How to play the game
This game is best played by a smaller group of people, 4 to 6 is good. Everyone grabs a beverage of choice and sits in a circle. Place a deck of cards in the center [...]
links for 2009-10-06
openid-selector – Google Code
This is a simple Javascript OpenID selector. It has been designed so that users do not even need to know what OpenID is to use it, they simply select their account by a recognisable logo.
(tags: openid javascript interface widget webdevelopment webdev web code ui usability)
The qwebirc project – IRC ajax
qwebirc is a [...]
Dice 10,000
I have been playing this game for as long as I can remember. It was one of the first games my parents ever taught me and its very simple to learn.
This game is most commonly known as Dice 10,000 but I have heard it called Boxcar, Foo, Zilch, and Crap Out, Greed, Farke, and [...]
links for 2009-10-02
Physics_For_Entertaiment
Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincaré conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the [...]
