wade womersley – york based software engineer
Engineering notes from the sharp end
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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They finally did it yesterday, Square Enix have officially stated the long awaited next MMORPG from Square Enix will be released on September 30th with a collectors edition for us lucky European folk out on the 22nd of September. Best of all, if you pre-order the collectors edition, you’ll get some extra goodies (besides being … Read More “Final Fantasy XIV Release Date Announced” »
Recently I decided to finally upgrade from my AMD Athlon X2 6000+ to a shiny new AMD Phenom II X6 965. Being AMD, that meant I didn’t have to change my motherboard, nor did I have to change my memory. Their Phenom II range is designed for AM3 but works in AM2+ motherboards; that means … Read More “Upgraded PC – Love AMD’s Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition!” »
If you’ve not seen Kylie’s new video for “All the Lovers”, I’d certainly recommend watching it, it’s just so….well different; not in a “we expect different, it’s GaGa” way, in a “that’s not usually done in popular music” Unfortunately, the HD clip isn’t embeddable on Youtube so there’s a link to it below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frv6FOt1BNI And … Read More “Kylie Minogue – All the Lovers Video” »
Very smarty guy this, turned his tiny living space in a Honk Kong apartment into 24 unique rooms using sliding and folding walls. Makes maximum use of space for a batchelor!
The VPS provider this site runs on, and that we use rather extensively in the office, is currently running a neat little promotion which is very simple. Send them a postcard and you’ll get $10 off your next bill plus you’ll be entered into a competition to win an iPad! I’d love to win an … Read More “VPS.net – Send a postcard, win an iPad + $10 off your next bill” »
Not sure who to credit this one to, but it certainly is a good one:
Just had a need to reset the mysql root login password for a server, did a bit of Googling and found out this is how you do it (I work on Ubuntu so you may have to tinker with the lines slightly depending on your distribution): Stop the current MySQL instance from running: /etc/init.d/mysql stop … Read More “Reset MySQL root password if you forgot it #mysql” »
Starting on April 6th, an upgrade will be pushed out for the xbox360 enabling the use of storage devices between 1 and 16 gigabytes. So provided you store your save games and profile on there, if you were to get the dreaded RROD, you’d not loose a thing and could continue to play on another … Read More “xbox360 to get USB storage support – finally!” »
Yes, it’s finally happened, The Telegraph website made the typo when referring to the LHC:
Good start: don’t use it unless you need to, there’s plenty of alternatives, e.g. DOMXML, str_replace, etc. Also PHP5+ has lots of filters for email validation and URL validation etc, function calls you can make rather than complex regular expressions. Regular expressions can slow down quickly due to back tracking, pattern complexity and long strings. … Read More “Regex-fu #PHPUK2010” »
