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January 9th, 2009 |
Resident Evil 2 and 3 for the Gamecube just arrived in the mail. Both new, in the original shrink wrap. I am a very happy duck!
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When writing up the Countdown Timer in Flash article yesterday, I stumbled across a need for a fairly simple plugin - one that would output the current Unix Timestamp into a Post's content. While I could use a plugin such as 'Exec-PHP' to accomplish this, that seemed to fall into the 'breaking eggs with a sledgehammer' brand of overkill. As such, I whipped up a quick Wordpress plugin (as I often do for these tiny problems), and decided to make this one available to the public. So without further ado, I give you... Duck's Timestamp Inserter! Ok, it could use a more creative title. Using some pretty simple markup, it allows me to insert the current timestamp, or offsets thereof, into my post content. <!--ducktime--> becomes 1265707650, while <!--ducktime+5000--> becomes 1265712650 and <!--ducktime-1200--> becomes 1265706450. If you refresh the page, you'll see these all change. UPDATE: This Plugin is now listed on the WordPress Plugin Repository! You can download Duck's Timestamp Inserter from there - and of course, Ratings are appreciated. I've released it under GPL3. If you find it useful, please consider Donating. | ||
Recently at work, I was asked to add a Countdown Timer to a few of our pages giving the time remaining until a Sale kicked in. While I could have whipped this up pretty quickly in Javascript, I decided to use the opportunity to expand my Flash knowledge a little. One of my key considerations was using the Server's time, rather than the time of the User's system clock. This meant passing two Timestamps from PHP to Flash, which luckily is very easy to do. I'll walk you through the entire design process here. I'll be using Flash CS3, and ActionScript 2.0. | ||
Needing a little break from painting miniatures, I decided to resume work on CoHLCD. While I'm fairly certain v2.0 is almost ready to come out of Beta, I still need to get a decent up and running to support it. For the third time now, I've scrapped a code-from-scratch web project and elected to use WordPress instead. For CoHLCD's site, I'm building the entire Theme from scratch, rather than using an existing Theme to template from. I think this is actually turning out to be a faster approach than restyling an already-designed template. With a little .htaccess tweak, I was even able to use my PHP-based Stylesheet. I'll likely write a tutorial soon about creating WordPress Themes - it's honestly easier than I expected it to be, and hopefully I can help someone else discover the same. | ||
Well, my G15 Refinishing is now on hold indefinitely. Somehow, the Numpad Enter key, which was (along with every other key) soaking in a jar of water to release the paint thinner, turned into jelly and puffed up. The other keys, which all had the identical treatment, remain unaffected. I'll probably look for a used/broken G15 or G11, and just swipe the keytops from it. However, this definitely pushed this to the end of the project list. Sheeb's Tau Battlesuits are nearly completed, as is the Necron 'Hand of Despair' Terrain piece. I'll be making some related terrain pieces soon, and creating templates so others can make the same Hand. I'm going to be out of town all weekend, so the list itself won't really get knocked down all that much for a while. Ah well, I deserve a *few* days off | ||
