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Minecraft Admin Wrapper… now with Levels!

Si — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:33:34 +0000

I’m writing a variation on a Minecraft Admin Wrapper, and this will act as a nice page with when things have been added (instead of me spamming new messages every few minutes, I’ll just edit this post)

16:30: Now with Levels! And now I’m going to go and get dinner, I’ll be back in about 2 hours, ready to program the next stage of the wrapper.

20:40 Version Beta 1 is being used on the server, hopefully it works fine! I will release the source code once complete.

Current Work on some new Techious Membership Features

Si — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:28:42 +0000

Now only if Windows would let me use WebDAV over https without tripping up over itself every 30 seconds…

Basically I have been working on a nice WebDAV document store. Once complete it will either be a new store or just link to main hosting for Techious Members. (Finally a use for SpcookCMS’ “Member Store Size” feature.) xD

It mounts just like a SMB share

Document storage on Techious (for an actual use for your membership)

Edit: Thanks to NetDrive, that does allow WebDAV over SSL to work easily, it all works now! Just a bit of fine tuning and we will have a new Techious Subscription feature!

Thanks to NetDrive, all works now

tchs.eu – The Little URL Shrinker that could

Si — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:55:21 +0000

Right, well this will only be of interest to a few you, and even a smaller set of those will know what this is all about. Some time ago I created tchs.eu, a small URL shortener just like any other. Think of it as a Techious branded tinyurl.com. And for a while things were good. But, as is the way with all good things in the tech world, good is not good enough. Things always need to be better than they currently are.

Then came along bitly.Pro, and all was better. It has more sophisticated tracking, allowed us to use it basically anywhere in any application. However there have been a few downsides to this. bitly.Pro accounts (from what I can tell) act just like any bit.ly account so http://bit.ly/mylink and http://tchs.eu/mylink go to the same place. This does however mean that all previous tchs.eu links are now null and void. Sorry about that, that’s the cost for progress, but I’m about 99% sure that we’ll never have to do something like that again. Unless bit.ly goes bust or something, but I doubt that would happen.

Also, this currently means that only I have the power to create tchs.eu links. The way bitly.Pro accounts work is that a custom domain can be used by only one user account, any links I create automatically become tchs.eu links, but only I can create them. Though there is a fix to that, which you will be able to see soon. Thanks to the power of the bit.ly API (well any API really), I can create a nice little wrapper that gives any user (I decide) on the SpcookCMS platform access to create links without giving them my username and password. Woot!

So that’s the story about everything that’s happened to tchs.eu lately. But rest assured, any links created since Feb 1st 2010 will still work, and should still work for the forseeable future. Oh yeah, have a screenshot

bitly.Pro Dashboard

Note: For those interested, the tchs.eu link for this blog post is http://tchs.eu/ddyB23 xD

Some sort of uber epic catchup thing

Si — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:40:50 +0000

Well, it would appear that now my exams are all over, it would be a good time to get back to something that has been majorly ignored, and that would be my blog. I mean, when is the last time I actually wrote something in here that is of some use. Oh, so long ago that you can’t remember?! Well, thats my point proven.

Unfortunantly for some, my exams are more important than other stuff, including the failed Pic-a-Week, that unfortunantly is postponed until futher notice. Yeah, I know, I must suck and be fail or something but pah, sod it, I don’t care, you’re getting new websites soon, which should be awesome

So now for some content, what have I been filling my time with? Well, exams are what take the number 1 space in wasting time as I have had 8 lovely (not!) exams in 18 brilliant(-ly boring) hours. I swear thats almost more than there at the end of Sixth Form, and well, that declares the end of that. How did they go? Fine. (I hope!) Results are on next Friday (19th) so it will be one last trip back to Bristol for that before I run away going “dammit, I only got x% in this exam” (hopefully higher than the pass percentage ) Apart from that, Lolgasm recordings have taken up some time, even more now considering that it seems each episode, something else goes wrong in Audition so maybe it’s time to just give up on that. After all these exams some time is due to just doing sod all. My flat mate and I went to Bristol Zoo, it was quite cool. Got some nice pictures, look at the spam-a-lot-gallery if you wantto see them (oh and see the Fail video ) (note to self: dont write turtle or tortoise you will ALWAYS be wrong).

Exams over, I’m back at home. (barely!) Two bags that weigh OVER NINE THOUSAND grams each (well about 20 each) carrying 3 miles to BTM wasn’t the most fun in my life. All of my body aches and stuff which just makes the day go wrong. When I got home it’s starting to spend. Ordered my new laptop, my new graphics card, RMA’d (for refund ftw) my old graphics card and bought a new wireless adapter. Yeah Skillers, not quite a tx2 (more like your model) but for the price feck it I’m happy. Then hell came. . Thus concluded Friday.

So, when does my stuff arrive? Monday for the laptop, Tuesday for the gcard pickup, friday for the gcard and wireless arrival. I will soon be back in business. But wait, I hear you cry (Dragon) how was I playing TF2. Well, for saving buying a Techious Subscription for other people, TF2 and L4D on my dads pc is in order (@Will_Anderson lol ). Now to not spend anything else (until Wii Sports Resort comes out of course!)

Plans for the summer, well theres three projects on the go, spage, SiBot and AdminBot. Yes, the server is self-aware (well will be when I’m done ) MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I HAS BUILT SINET . Then comes the TECHIOUS LAN 09! Bring it on bitches I PWN J00. Folding will hit a full going over here (at 2500ppd atm 24/7 (and thats just on one pc)). Finally (of course) will be trying to see all my friends alot this summer (unless this bs fude bs starts again :@). Oh yes, I am also planning a special new mp3 release, my voice artist show Morally Objectional?)

There has never been a better time for anything in life to happen. The interwebs will be our friends (and other technorubbish). I hope this small reply is good enough for you, and I will be writing alot more from now on (I promise!)

Arrivederci!

Techious2 Screenshot 1

Si — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:59:07 +0000

Time to reveal the first image of Techious2, showing an idea inspired from many elements from my previous websites. Partially it is based on some old Ratchet2 design that never made it to launch. Here it is:

Now I’ve just put text here, but soon I intend to mix these elements with the spage system, but hopefully you can see my genius . Comments appreciated

Welcome to the Techious2 Developers Blog!

Si — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:24:24 +0000

Well, kind of, the real link to read this kind of garbage is here, and it only shows the magic that is the Techious2 developer blog posts. Here (or there) I will be posting updates as to how the Techious2 project is going as it happens.

Now for a small introduction. Techious2 is (obviously) the new version of the Techious Website, as developed myself and tested by my crack team of testers when it gets to that stage. Originally it was going to be a private thing, but things leak too quicky so I have decided to make it a bit more public. Currently the only information you can know is what I post here at the moment, and also what I also post in the future with more blog posts and stuff.

In this blog I will aim to put updates to the websites along with screenshots for those that think they are worthy enough. I aim to have the website done by the middle of 2009, but we have no idea how long things actually take these days, so it could just be another summer break rushsite

For keeping up to date with things, you can either use the category feed that will only show the Techious2 posts, or if you currently subscribe to my main RSS feed, you already have all you need to keep up todate.

One final thing, should I make this a seperate blog or use what I intend to?

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

That is all, as I have to actually develop stuff for it to be readworthy, so heres to the Techious2 project!

Wootage Holidays

Si — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:38:33 +0000

I has survived! Thankfully after two hundred years 11 weeks I have survived my first time at University and can now relax. Well, sort of. I still have a couple of pieces of work to do (that were both set yesterday) and my EngMaths exams to revise for, but apart from this, I am basically all the way there to having fun relaxing and stuff.

I think if I spend an hour revising each day and an hour doing work each day, that should prepare me enough for everything and should still leave me enough time to do whatever it is I want to.

So what shall I be doing during the holidays? Well I have no idea, apart from seeing people a couple of times, i think we’ll just have to play it ear, which should be good. Oh, and plenty f sleep, I need to sleep alot this holiday too

That’s about it, just keeping ye olde blog ticking over, oh and Techious2 is now synced up to my laptop so I can work on that remotely too which I’m sure some people will be glad of

Well, more sleep needed so cya.

Oh yea, theres also a 720p YouTube plugin in here now so once that works, I will be porting that not only here, but also into the main Techious Forums for funs and lols!

University Unpacking part done

Si — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:41:00 +0000

Right, this is part of the main unpacking done, obviously knowing me, the first thing I’ve tried to do is to try and get my computer on the internet. After fiddling with their security software, I’ve finally got it online, and it seems quite fast. I haven’t tried Steam but hopefully that should work later. If not then that’ll be me out of TF2 games for a while, though more importantly for Techious we’d better hope it works for skillers tommorow because if it doesn’t then that really is the end for Techious’ server, being that he pays for most of it.

I'm Back (Again!)

Si — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:35:15 +0000

After literally one weekend of work, I am now able to announce and display the latest version of Spcook. This will now act as my blog and development site all tied together, documenting things as I travel through University over the next 4 years. This design is going to stay, but I might make a few changes here and there depending on how things go and if I get bored with things being exactly this way.

I aim to write in here reguarly as I move throughout University, allowing my freinds who can’t come with me to at least know what’s been going on with me for these next few years. Even if I can’t talk 24/7, hopefully this will provide a gateway to all the random and exciting things that have and will be going on.

This will also provide a home to random coding stuff I do, random stuff I just tinker with in my spare time as well as some things related to my Uni course.

Related to the site, I would briefly like to thank the following people for helping me release this site:

John (Reedy/Lord Metritutus Merkwurdichliebe) – Tester, and yes I got rid of that retina-burning blue colour
Mark (Skillers) – The guy whos server my site runs off. Thanks for letting me host this site here (Oh yea, and visit Techious!)

Ok, short list, but had to be written.

I’m off to make the rest of the site match now, and update a million and one things,