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Tue, 23 Dec 2008

My miniatures gallery

Added the Slithe Queen and the Tsathogua figures to my painted figures gallery. They both came out pretty nice.

my gallery is here

Jay Sprenkle



posted at: 14:58 | path: | permanent link to this entry

Tue, 18 Nov 2008

An xscreensaver hack: bingrid

I originally wrote the first version of this back in the 1980's. Since I'm currently unemployed I have time to revisit it. It's based on the munch screensaver already in the xscreensaver distribution. Written in 1999 version C only. It was almost painful to write in that style again. I've gotten spoiled by modern tools.

It looks much better when you see it moving.

Can anyone test this and see if it runs on any other linux except my Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit?

The binary and source is here: here.

To install:

  • Put the binary where your current screensavers live (probably /usr/lib/xscreensaver/)
  • copy any existing screensaver definition in your screensavers definition directory ( probably /usr/share/applications/screensavers/ ) and edit it to reference bingrid instead of whatever it already points to.
  • Select bingrid from your regular screensaver selection.

    Jay Sprenkle



    posted at: 16:10 | path: | permanent link to this entry

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    An example program using jQuery: The chinese puzzle

    I think the official name for this puzzle is the 'Chinese Puzzle' though I always called it the 'fifteen' puzzle. Rearrange the pieces so the numbers are in sequential order to win.

    This was created as an experiment to see just how small a program could be made using jQuery. I highly recommend it for your web site programming needs.

    The game is here: here

    Jay Sprenkle



    posted at: 10:21 | path: | permanent link to this entry

    Thu, 07 Aug 2008

    My miniatures gallery

    After I created a shell script using netpbm to generate web image galleries I went looking for a program to edit the comment tags in the image files. I stumbled on another gentleman's review of image management systems for linux. Of course I found just the perfect program, which generates web albums too.

    I replaced my gallery here with one from gThumb.

    Jay Sprenkle



    posted at: 20:20 | path: | permanent link to this entry

    Wed, 06 Aug 2008

    My miniatures gallery

    I created a shell script using netpbm to generate web image galleries. I've built a gallery of my painted miniatures. I'll post the shell script shortly after I've had time to clean it up.

    You can see the gallery here

    Jay Sprenkle



    posted at: 23:28 | path: | permanent link to this entry

    Sat, 21 Jun 2008

    A google maps mashup for the Turbine's MMORPG "Asheron's Call"

    I created a page that combines google maps and google search to help find information about the world of Dereth. It shows maps of the world with overlaid markers showing the positions of various categories of content. Towns, bind stones, life stones, etc.

    The local search function turns out to be worthless for this purpose. Google geo-locates things in our world, not Dereth ;)

    You can play with it here

    Jay Sprenkle



    posted at: 13:47 | path: | permanent link to this entry

    Sat, 23 Feb 2008

    Delta: A shell script command line utility for processing log files

    For security every web master knows you need to review your log files. A lot of us use automation to make this task possible. You need to regularly review the content of your logs. So how do you efficiently do this?

    You could use a specialty program designed for that one task. Or, if you're like me you'd rather make your own. I wanted a program to extract new content but be generic enough it could be used as a tool for other tasks. I built 'delta'.

    It's simple in operation. You give it the name of a file and it outputs the content of that file that hasn't been previously seen before. The first time you use it you get the complete content of the file. It records how much of the file was processed. The second time it starts where it left off at and outputs any content appended to the file since the last run. Delta records the file position of the end of the file. On subsequent runs it reads content after the previous position.

    The C++ source for the program link. It should compile fine under Linux/Unix/OSX etc.

    A compiled version for windows link

    Some examples showing usage:

    • EMail new web server log entries to yourself: delta /var/log/apache/error.log |sendmail me@myserver.com
    • Search new web server log entries for worm attacks: delta /var/log/apache/access.log |grep dll |sendmail me@myserver.com

    If you find the program useful an email or a contribution would be a fine gesture.

    Jay Sprenkle



    posted at: 09:55 | path: | permanent link to this entry