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03 Feb 2010

Notepad++ Function List Plugin

Filled in: Mumble

After upgrading to the latest (5.6.6 Unicode) version of Notepad++, I had several problems (read: crashes).
After playing around with the plugins, I noticed that the problem was with one of my (favorite) plugins: Function List.
Fortunately, thanks to Ruslan’s blog I found the solution: download a copy from here.

25 Jan 2010

Mystery Express

Filled in: Mumble

Days of Wonder, my favorite board games publisher, is up to a new suprise. The game “Mystery Express” was announced a few minutes ago, sadly without too many details.
According to the website, the game is out in March and it will be available in English, French and German. From the publisher’s blog we read the [...]

I’m not really fond of Opera’s translation menu; maybe it’s because it only offers a handful of languages (and I have some Finnish, Danish, Swedish and other -ishes friends on Facebook).
Hopefully Opera’s known power user, Tamil, had a solution for a similar task, which I changed a bit:

Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> [...]

A group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators want to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish laws restricting the freedoms of expression, information and access to culture on the Internet.
Read the declaration here.

16 Nov 2009

Ride the Wave

Filled in: Mumble, tags:

I have just added a new page, which includes my first wave! I’m eager to see how this works. For this, I used wavr

12 Nov 2009

Just made

Filled in: Websites

http://www.kyriakochori.gr

02 Jun 2009

Ding

Filled in: Mumble

One thousand spam blocked….. I love Akismet.
Bring it on, punk.

20 May 2009

XML serialization ouput my way

Filled in: .NET, tags: ,

The default XML serialization adds the xml header and a couple of namespace definitions – elements which aren’t always welcome. Here’s how to control the XML source.
Let’s start with a simple class called ‘Book’:

Public Class Book

Public Title As String = String.Empty

Public Sub New()
End [...]

02 Apr 2009

Back to school

Filled in: PHP, tags: ,

I’ve got a couple of messages from [apparently] junior programmers regarding my previous post, so I decided to go back and explain some of the magic that’s happening every day inside Cake applications.
As you know (or should have known) Cake does a lot of magic behind the scenes, as long as we’re following some naming [...]

31 Mar 2009

The Indie scene

Filled in: Mumble, tags:

For those of you (like myself) who have been hiding under your shell, there’s a whole world of games out there, away from the publicity lights. It’s the “Indie” (independent) scene, where small groups of people create wonderful games.
I was only aware of such groups thanks to Uplink, a hacker simulation game from Introversion (“the [...]


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