wade womersley – york based software engineer
Yes, you heard it right, the game engine that usually costs to license is now totally free for anyone to use (without any payments at all for non-commercial use). If you decide to make a game and release it, they’ll let you earn $5,000 dollars gratis, after that they want a 25% royalty – I … Read More “Epic Games releases Unreal Development Toolkit for FREE” »
I’ve updated my Link Checker (site crawler) located at https://wade.one/tools/linkchecker to allow downloading of the data it finds as CSV files. So all redirect URL’s, 404’s and meta data for all pages can be downloaded. The links are at the bottom of the page after the initial output of data. Use the Link Checker here.
I’ve been stumbling around for new stuff to use in the world of webmastery this morning and stumbled across this rather useful tool. A few weeks ago I attended PHPNW along with some guys from work, one of the talks at the end of the day was by a Microsoft guy who was trying to … Read More “Adobe Browser Labs – Better than Microsoft Expression” »
I’ve just finished writing version one of my link checker tool and have now launched it on my site. The tool will parse a given URL, extract all links on that page that point to the same domain and follow them, and keep doing that until it’s finished. It will then show you the results … Read More “Link Checker – Free Tool Launched on Site” »
So lunch was ‘so-so’ – the dauphinoise were undercooked, the duck sauce was too strong and overpowered the duck (probably good as they were rather cheap legs.) “Optimising your front end performance” was a very mixed talk. There were some generalisations that were seriously poor such as “80% of access to sites by end users … Read More “PHPNW 09 – Food and Optimising front end performance” »
Just started in the 3rd talk today by a guy called Rowan Merewood (twitter link). I had no idea he worked at Plus.net – for those of you who don’t know me, just take a look on Google for wade womersley plus.net. Unfortunately that means I’m biased to this talk as he’s talking about a … Read More “PHPNW09 – PHP North-West 09 Conference” »
Ubuntu…it’s a great Linux OS to use on servers due to its speed and simplicity – personal preference based on no statistics, only personal use. However, one thing Linux drives me mad with is software RAID. It’s taken me the better part of a day to set up a few RAID partitions, two of which … Read More “Linux RAID, MySQL” »
InnoISAM is what I need, a happy medium between InnoDB and MyISAM. I need the speed of inserts of InnoDB with the speed of selects of MyISAM – no HEAP will not work because the JOIN that I do results in the HEAP table being converted into MyISAM. You get two tables that deal with … Read More “InnoISAM / District 9” »
Ah Friday’s, it’s always a good day in the office, everyone (at least in the dev team) know it’s Friday, and most weeks, Dan’s behaviour is a tell tale sign. Friday also means pub lunch day, something to look forward to…usually – however today was a sad day, our usual pub, the Wellington, let us … Read More “Hidden things, lack of fries and pointless data” »
Today’s work was a standard day, well except for the morning, actually no, that was a standard morning too, things didn’t work too well, they needed fixing, during which there were random jokes at Ben’s expense due to his pure love of graphs. With some help from Remo (my team manager) though, we did manage … Read More “Today’s musings” »