EVE-Central Header Redesign
Here is a prototype “home page” for EVE-Central, the top-portion only. Opinions?
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Contribtastic 2.0.3 Now Available (and way less unreliable)
Contribtastic 2.0.3 (the EVE-Central.com upload client) is now available, and far less crashy than before.
Read more →History loaded to Github
I’ve loaded a part of my back-catalog of software to github. Included into the transfer is:
Read more →iOS - Set a pattern background image for a UIView
In iOS, there is no way to slug a background image into a `UIView` - making it slightly trickier to style your new iOS application background (and who doesn't like the new iOS 5 linen?). However, you can apply a `UIColor`. Did you know…
Read more →Semantic End-User Documentation: Docbook or Sphinx?
When you think of user documentation authoring systems, a couple of traditional tools often come to mind: FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, InDesign, RoboHelp, LyX, TeX files, MadCap Flare. Some are fully proprietary, while others embrace…
Read more →EVE-Central after EVE-Metrics
As you may have heard, EVE-Metrics is planning on moving to bigger and better things. This leaves (the older, more battle scared, and way less slick) EVE-Central as the only remaining EVE-Online market data aggregator. Despite not being…
Read more →Contribtastic Alpha4 Available
A new version of Contribtastic, the 100% open source cache reading uploader, is now available. If you’ve been hit with the data.pickle corruption bug from previous versions, this is an essential upgrade.
Read more →About rle_unpack in libevecache
I have had several questions regarding the "rle_unpack" function in libevecache. In order to not repeat myself in e-mails, I decided to make a quick post describing the logic: The market rows are compressed with an odd variant of…
Read more →Reverse Engineering the EVE-Online Cache Files
So, I'm doing it after all. Reverse engineering the cache files. The format is actually surprisingly simple once you determine the identifiers of all the data fields (and their lengths). No reverse compiling or digging into the EVE…
Read more →My Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter works just fine
As a statistic for the internet, I would like to report that my Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter works just fine. I purchased it from new stock at an Apple store on April 2nd, and am using it with a 2009 Mac Mini base…
Read more →ptee
Have you ever wanted to use the UNIX shell utility tee, but instead of simply dumping to a file, invoke a series of subcommands that would run inside the pipeline? If so, I give you ptee, now available in version 1.0.
Read more →IRM Demo Back and Kicking
I’ve updated the IRM demo at http://www.stackfoundry.com/irmdemo/demo to the latest Git version. Everything should be working, if not, let me know.
Read more →Big Monitors, Window Management Frustration, and finding StumpWM
You may be like me, and have a large (20"+, or especially 30" in this case) monitor attached to your computer. You're also a avid computer user and have more than one program open at a time which you want to view simultaneously. You…
Read more →Black Rise Added
Thanks to a great community member, we now have data for Black Rise (the new region in Empyrean Age), before CCP has the data available in their periodic dumps. -10 points for CCP, since it has been over a month since the release of the…
Read more →Using Facebook’s Thrift with Python and HBase
Today I'm going to show you how to interface Python to Apache HBase using Facebook's Thrift package. Hbase is a documented oriented database which is very similar to Google's BigTable (in fact its more or less a clone of BigTable as…
Read more →Old Software Archive: Ship Bomb
Ever heard of VGA Planets? If not, then you can probably safely skip this post. But if you do, I introduce you to one of my first released programming projects. I made this in Junior High, using QBasic(!!). It was an addon for the VGA…
Read more →On Ohloh
Just a quick little update not related to any ongoing projects (more on the projects later).
Read more →GMail Delivery Problems
Just an update on the GMail delivery problems from eve-central.com. Of the 30-odd addresses subscribed from gmail, we were happily delivering mail to all of them with no bounces and other service interruptions. All it took was setting…
Read more →Friday Site Update, Trade Tool in Beta Form
I’m pushing out a new update to the site today. Several new features are included and bugs are fixed:
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