http://pesartain.com/ 2010-07-30T15:28:46-07:00 http://pesartain.com/ http://pesartain.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-27T12:07:39-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2010/0727_talking_to_myself I often jest about how I enjoy listening to my own voice, or how I might as well get used to hearing me speak since I do it so much. A couple of months back, I was in the car combing through my phone book looking for someone to call and talk to about something I'd thought of. No one really fit the bill, and I didn't want to bother someone who wasn't going to be interested, so I started dictating the ideas to my phone instead of writing them down. text/html 2010-07-21T14:29:18-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing Online * 2009: Using git for web development Offline * 2006: Java file database - a Java frontend used to add entries to an embedded database based on the scan type used (Java 1.4+) Windows * 2005: Active Desktop music library - used to launch media player and to play songs from an embedded Active Desktop (ASP, Windows only) text/html 2010-07-21T14:24:14-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/games/gamelist Bayonetta (DMC style) Dark Void Darksiders Final Fantasy XIII Lego Starwars (Complete) text/html 2010-07-21T14:23:48-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing/projects Aside from scripts and websites, I have created or started some projects that deserve their own * 2010: * 2009: projectchorus - a portal for (Dokuwiki, Audacity, git) * 2009: PQRaid - a Dokuwiki plugin to manage raid signup and organisation (PHP & MySQL) * 2008: Paws - a member tracking and guild management system for World of Warcraft (PHP & MySQL) * 2008: Wolfpoints Addon - a Lua addon for World of Warcraft to help with tracking a type of DKP (Lua, WoW 2.4) * 2006: Java file dat… text/html 2010-07-21T14:22:18-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing/websites/thewolfpack.org.uk www.thewolfpack.org.uk Forum (www.thewolfpack.org.uk/forum) A Simple Machines Forum with a custom theme based off Nessianstyle's BlackDay. Wiki (www.thewolfpack.org.uk/dokuwiki) Much like pesartain.com, a dokuwiki installation is running. The template is based off a modified version of dokuwiki_dark, with elements borrowed from the BlackDay forum theme. text/html 2010-07-21T14:21:57-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/websites Online pesartain.com src2pkg - www.src2pkg.net projectchorus - <http://projectchorus.pesartain.com> The Alchemy of Play - <http://alchemyofplay.pesartain.com> Offline Discontinued sites kaear.co.uk pq - pq.pesartain.com text/html 2010-07-21T14:21:57-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing/websites/kaear.co.uk Now defunct, kaear.co.uk was my first paid-for web presence which ran from 2001 until 2007. The Internet Archive shows some of the previous incarnations of the site. Version 1: March 2002 - October 2003 Version 2: October 2003 - April 2005 Bottom right is a screenshot of the final running site, the remainder are the developmental mockups, mostly done in Photoshop. text/html 2010-07-21T14:21:30-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing/websites/discontinued To get in some practice, I have coded up and run a number of websites since about 2002. From left to right, top to bottom, these sites were for: * The Council of Thieves (Ultima Online) * Fallen From Grace (Ultima Online) * UKC Live Music Society (University of Kent) * Tel'marian Mercenary Company (Ultima Online) * Orcs of Tolagal (Ultima Online) * Sporks (Tribes2) * The Bujin'kai Shogunate (Ultima Online) * The Untouchables version 2 (Tribes2) * The Untouchables (Tribes2) *… text/html 2010-07-21T14:10:37-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/diy/stairs There are two reasons to reconstruct the stair ceiling. The first is that the bath was poorly sealed originally and caused some destruction to the plasterboard (and the boarded ceiling directly beneath the bath too). The second is that the original covered a portion of the window. text/html 2010-07-21T14:09:49-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/diy/garage Once upon a time the garage looked like that. Since the obscenely expensive repair job on the bike, she now looks better than she did then. The garage door closes about 6 inches behind the top box on the bike, which means there's another 3 meters of garage hidden by boxes. It's just as full as it seems. text/html 2010-07-21T13:45:12-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing/source/wolfpoints_addon Loosely based on the Shroud Loot System, Wolfpoints is a temporal dkp system that rewards players for the amount of time spent raiding, regardless of boss kills. Bids may be made by eligible ranks as a need or greed, if noone needs or greeds, the item goes to a roll. The full rules may be found here. text/html 2010-07-21T13:45:11-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing/source/wolfpoints_rules Gaining Points * Signing up for, turning up on time and staying until the end of a raid: 1 point. Losing Points * Points are currently only lost on a NEED bid, although infractions against the raid may cause the raid leader to penalise you by docking points. text/html 2010-07-21T13:43:41-07:00 Piete http://pesartain.com/computing/source/pqraid <http://www.pesartain.com/pqdev/raid> Syntax To generate the calendar: {{pqraid>calendar}} To show the csceditor: {{pqraid>csceditor}} To show the achievement editor: {{pqraid>achievementeditor}} To show achievements for a given character: