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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Just a quick little update not related to any ongoing projects (more on the projects later).
Read more →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 →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 →I’m pushing out a new update to the site today. Several new features are included and bugs are fixed:
Read more →Just a quick one, showing off a new screenshot of the trade compare tool. See it here. Also implemented is a nifty little autocomplete AJAX feature for the system and region names.
Read more →I’ve been quiet about my IRM 2 activities recently, and I apologize. This article is not really a status update, but a reflection on mapping programs such as IRM 2 to a traditional RDBMS.
Read more →I’ve taken the chance now to upgrade some of our APIs, make them more consistent, cleaner, and better documented.
Read more →Many nifty things are afoot for EVE-Central.com. For one, I migrated away from mod_python, which was hanging up the Apache process several times per day for unknown reasons. There was even a monitor script to kill -9, ipcrm, and restart…
Read more →Just a quick update highlighting what is going on in girm.it, the Git repository for IRM 2 (on Grails).
Read more →In addition to trying out new Kool-aid with Groovy and Grails, I’ve decided to move from tracking in Subversion to tracking in Git the gIRM code base.
Read more →Just a quickie. A few screenshots presenting IRM on Grails. Developed much faster than my previous solution, and in general making me feel a lot better about its direction
Read more →Its me again, and this time I bring news of lessons learned with the current development work on IRM 2.
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