Toplist MOD for phpBB3: Comments beta
A few minutes ago I posted a new beta of the Toplist MOD for phpBB3. It includes working comments, and several small fixes that needed to be addressed. The comments include add, delete and a flood limit (the boards default flood limit). Feel free to test it as you please but don't use it in a production environment yet!
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Tag it!: 1 November 2008, 22:47 Views: 1350 0 [Mood: Coding a lot 
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Closing down Mail2Wii.com
Currently I'm in the process of closing down Mail2Wii.com. The reasons why I'm shutting it down:
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Tag it!: 29 October 2008, 10:45 Views: 144 0 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Major WoW Map updates pt. 1
With patch 3.0.2 just landed yesterday and some lads from Taiwan linking to my map, I decided to change the url from a map embedded in my site to a fullscreen (fullbrowser screen that is) version I started working on a few days ago. Also I did an export of the maps of the game after installing the patch yesterday. 1 thing that catched me eye is that Blizzard updated the minimap and made it brigther. I had to do an export for the new zepp towers at Org and UC anyway but when I noticed that made it brigther, work started to update the entire map. So after the Maelstrom a few days ago the next major update should hit live in a few days. Below is an image showing the difference between the old and new minimap:
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Tag it!: 16 October 2008, 8:43 Views: 221 1 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
lvl 80 BG/Arena Reward Prices (PTR)
Just like last time (TBC) I decided to make a list of all new BG and Arena items for lvl 80 on the PTR. Everyone in my guild is buzzing around about it but no one realy knows. So made this for them and like last time decided to post it on others places of the net again. Anyway here it is:
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Tag it!: 8 October 2008, 19:26 Views: 6669 47 [Mood: Happy 
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World of Warcraft Map Updates
Just a moment ago I implemented a extremely simple designfor the World of Warcraft Map page.To make it more clear and easy to use. It will fill your whole screen instead of a predefined sized block.
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Tag it!: 2 October 2008, 12:22 Views: 240 0 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Avatar - The new you - Photo's
2 weeks ago I posted about my screenshots being used in an exhibition in Australia. Some days ago I got email from Malcolm with photo's. So here they are and enjoy them:
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Tag it!: 12 September 2008, 19:10 Views: 323 2 [Mood: Happy ]
Screenshots featuring at the Avatar exhibition at the ACP
Some time ago I got contacted by Malcolm Smith from the ACP. The ACP is going to have an exhibition about online alter-egos named Avatar. So 30 of my screenshots will feature on that exhibition. Really excited about it and can't wait to hear everything about it when it's over. You can find more about it on the ACP website: http://tmp.acp.org.au/future/index.php#files1
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Tag it!: 29 August 2008, 21:08 Views: 451 1 [Mood: Happy ]
World of Warcraft Custom Google Map back on screenshots
Just wanted everyone to know I enabled the World of Warcraft Google Map on the screenshots again since I'm done with the speed updates. Started working on tthe coords for each zone. This time I'll be using a 4 number coord insstead of the default 2 to increase acuracy.
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Tag it!: 2 August 2008, 0:05 Views: 528 0 [Mood: Happy ]
SVN up
Over the past few days I've been preparing SVN for most of my projects. They are read-only for non-loggedin users. Only authenticated users can write to it.
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Tag it!: 13 July 2008, 0:46 Views: 632 13 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Northrend and Instances added plus a little speed upgrade
2 days ago the instances from Atlasmod.com were added to the maps system (with permission from Dan). When I'm finished with posting this message I'll add the location information to the database so they show up tomorrow on the zones tag pages.
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Tag it!: 7 July 2008, 20:27 Views: 683 1 [Mood: Happy ]
WoW Screenshots Map disabled
The new style maps on the wow screenshot pages are there now for a while. People seem to like them alot as they startmoving them around and check out place in the world. For the moment they are disabled to correct a few issue's. There are some problems I would like to fix before putting them back on. They can be very bandwidth demanding so I'll be looking into using a mix of image type to have optimal bandwidth useage but keeping the quality up. Another thing that is going to be included are Instance maps (thanks to Dan Gilbert from atlasmod.com). The third issue are the markers. Currently they are only on a handfull of zones like Nagrand. (The maps will only be removed on screenshot pages, but will be available on the map page and the page pages since they are still usefull on those pages.) This upcoming change will also include (when available) 4 diget coords to improve acuracy.
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Tag it!: 19 June 2008, 22:54 Views: 592 0 [Mood: Happy ]
Custom Google Map Tiles part 2/2: Slicing the tiles and creating the HTML
Time to create a Custom Tiled Google Map from out previous created World of Warcraft map. We'll do 3 maps in this tutorial. Starting with an easy of GTASA (Grand Theft Auto Sanandreas), then we'll make it a bit harder and make a Guild Wars map. After that we'll make a World of Warcraft map out of 4 parts. Below are the images needed for each map. With the GTASA I'll take you by hand over each step so you can get familier with the steps and give a short explanation of what each option/handling does. With the Guild Wars map we'll make a bigger map and with the World of Warcraft map we make a map out of 4 images and use some extra techniques to speed things up.
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Tag it!: 1 May 2008, 14:38 Views: 15559 8 [Mood: Happy ]
Water plus Home Server is a very bad combination
Sigh here we go again. Last night some water leaked from our aquarium on the floor. We pulled out everything on power when we noticed it. That plus probably the water killed my home server so for the next few days anything not cached on the site server (like screenshots images) are unavailable. A new server is allready arranged and should be up and running in a few days. I'll keep you posted.
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Tag it!: 24 April 2008, 19:09 Views: 535 0 [Mood: Pissed 
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Toplist MOD for phpBB3 Screens
Development is going great for Toplist MOD for phpBB3. Most of the work is converting the themes to the new system and into the new style. Some code fixes are included aswell and they will also be updated in the version for phpBB2. To keep is short here are 2 screenshots of the phpBB3 version:
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Tag it!: 7 April 2008, 18:43 Views: 15963 11 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Friday night Themed Links stops (for now)
Ok this is it (for now) for the Friday night Themed Links. I decided to do this only once a month on the 14th of the month. This is to create more usefull and bigger link lists. Also a reason why I choose to do this less frequently to create better quality posts.
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Tag it!: 5 April 2008, 1:20 Views: 585 0 [Mood: Happy ]
Friday night Themed Links week 13: 39 World of Warcraft Sites
Easy pick for me this week, here is my World of Warcraft site list.
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Tag it!: 28 March 2008, 21:01 Views: 594 1 [Mood: Happy ]
Monthly Website Tips: Social March
Ok this area of work is kinda new for me. Never dugg into the social aspect of the web that much as a tech guy. But after some weeks of trying I booked some interesting results with it.
Forums
When looking into the other things (comments, digg(-clones)), and in particular looking through my access_logs. I found out that alot of people where checking out the sites I placed in my forum signature. After setting up a bit more advanced logging on this (phenomena). I found 2 different groups that where clicking. First the returning visitors (more then 1 visit) made out about 10 - 20% of the incoming hits from forums. The other 80 - 90% goes to the new visitor. So putting links in your forum signature is certainly worth the little effort.Comments
Posting comments has the same effect as a forum signature. When posting a constructive (or just a positive) comment on a post/article/entry people tend to check out your site. This will have a positive effect on the number of visitors your getting.But again make sure to post something useful/constructive.Sites
Below are a few sites that, when used properly, can increase your reach.
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Tag it!: 25 March 2008, 13:57 Views: 1176 4 [Mood: Happy ]
Custom Google Map Tiles part 1/2: Creating the map
This part is optional and only covers creating a map image from the World of Warcraft game files. If you are looking for a how to create a google map custom tiles from a map image please keep an eye on my blogs. I'll post part 2/2 before the end of next week.
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Tag it!: 22 March 2008, 23:47 Views: 1119 3 [Mood: Happy ]
How to add your visitors to a Google Map
Ok message 1 of today will be a howto to add your visitors as dots on a world map using Google Maps.
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Tag it!: 22 March 2008, 13:11 Views: 2360 7 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Friday night Themed Links week 12: 0 sites
This week no links instead I spending all my time to give you 3 posts this weekend. 1 in the saterday noon, 1 in the saterday evening and 1 for sunday.
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Tag it!: 22 March 2008, 0:52 Views: 414 0 [Mood: Happy ]
World of Warcraft Custom Google Map Tiles Phase 1 completed
The wow custom tiles for google maps is my latest project. The project is seperated in 3 phases for now:
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Tag it!: 16 March 2008, 22:41 Views: 988 1 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Friday night Themed Links week 11: Personal Daily Sites
Ok I've to many things in my head to make a nice list. So I'll be listing the sites I visit everyday for new, forums, developement etc etc:
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Tag it!: 14 March 2008, 22:37 Views: 279 0 [Mood: Happy ]
Site Updates: Google Maps, Login & Register Box, Top Commenters
Ok great I've been working on some Google Maps features for on the site. One of them is the map of online visitors (like below). I also added a daylightmap on it for the great looks:
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Tag it!: 11 March 2008, 10:39 Views: 439 0 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Friday night Themed Links week 10: 13 Google Map Sites
After adding a map of online users to the online users page I decided to also update maps for my wow screenshots. So this week a list of Google Maps related sites:
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Tag it!: 7 March 2008, 21:54 Views: 330 1 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Monthly Website Tips: Sitemap and Ping February
This month I'll get into getting your site noticed by several big parties on the web like Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live and several pingback sites.
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Tag it!: 29 February 2008, 18:56 Views: 766 1 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Friday night Themed Links week 9: Search Engines to ping
So last week I had blog ping services to ping this week I have search engines to ping your sitemap to. If you have a sitemap you can replace the [SITEMAPURL] with the URL Encoded sitemap URL of your site and add it in your browser or let your site/blog software open the URL and you let search engines know you updated your site(map).
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Tag it!: 29 February 2008, 18:26 Views: 292 0 [Mood: Happy ]
World of Warcraft Gold (A bfrief history of NoGold.org and how I got involved)
For me this started all in the early days when gold sellers started to spam and bugged me to death with it. With Adsense ads on my site I soon found out that Gold Seller adds where showing on my site. So I started adding them to the Adsense blacklist. After a while I filtered out all (for that moment) sites and placed the first version of my list on my blog. After a while I ran into NoGold.org (the old site), at that time it wasn't really much used and irony was that they got spammed on their forums by gold sellers all the time. Last year when Rollie from WarCraftRealms.com took over the Azzor.com network I got the change to make something out of it. Rollie installed a WP install and at first we had a simple default list of sites. After some months when more and more people become active on the site the list grew and we even had to create a second list of currently active sites on Google's Adsense . And now Blizzard finaly made a statement on the official World of Warcraft websites.
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Tag it!: 28 February 2008, 13:02 Views: 244 0 [Mood: Happy ]
Friday night Themed Links week 8: 33 Ping Services to Ping
Kinda late this week, it took more work then exspected to create a working list of ping services to ping. Here is is. I started out with 230 services and narrowed it down to 33 (working) services.
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Tag it!: 24 February 2008, 19:31 Views: 284 0 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
2.3 Vs. 2.4 Interface Option Screen
As originaly posted here this is my post about the new interface options screen in World of Warcraft.
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Tag it!: 22 February 2008, 19:54 Views: 1897 1 [Mood: Happy ]
PuTTY ftl, MidpSSH ftw! (Nokia N73)
8 days ago I posted my list of Nokia N73 application. And I had PuTTY on it, no problems at first glance worked great. Until it started being buggy and crashing and so a college told me about MidpSSH . And it works flawless with also a lot of decent settings 
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Tag it!: 16 February 2008, 11:40 Views: 467 0 [Mood: Happy ]
Friday night Themed Links week 7: 5 lolcat sites
Since I didn't had alot of time for things today so here is my top 5 lolcat sites:
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Tag it!: 16 February 2008, 3:10 Views: 217 0 [Mood: Happy ]
Friday night Themed Links week 6: Top 5 Nokia N73 Applications
Got a new phone last tuesday, a Nokia N73. So I started looking for good apps on it and come up with this list:
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Tag it!: 8 February 2008, 20:55 Views: 285 0 [Mood: Happy ]
Site updates: Referer to Pingback, Character Banners
Referer to Pingback
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Tag it!: 5 February 2008, 15:08 Views: 307 0 [Mood: Coding a lot ]
Friday night Themed Links week 5: 25 Nerd T-shirts
Ow I love nerd shirts and since I'm thinking here is my 'kinda' wish-list. Most of the shirts are taking from ThinkGeek and J!NX.
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ZOMG!!! The Secret Code T-Shirt
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Toplist MOD 2.1.0 for phpBB2 Release
So finaly here it is, Toplist MOD 2.1.0. It's available for download here . And it contains the following features:
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Friday night Themed Links week 4: 40 Cheatsheets
So I was browsing looking for an regexp cheatsheet when I ran into ILoveJackDaniels.com wich has loads of cheatsheets. So I decided to create an ever bigger list since I was missing some things
. Also Pete Freitag's Cheat Sheet's post was a source of inspiration.
- OS
- Games
- (Web)Developement
- PHP
- PHP UTF-8
- ASP / VBS
- Python
- JSP
- Java 1.5
- Ruby on Rails
- ColdFusion
- HTML
- HTML Entities
- CSS
- JavaScript
- RGB Hex Color
- Apache
- mod_rewrite
- htaccess
- Microformats 1
- Microformats 2
- RegExp
- RegExp .Net
- General
- Version Control
- Databases
WyriHaximus
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