Well, a while back I decided to have another stab at applying for Uni. Same field as I did two years ago, being in Web Development. I picked two courses with the same Uni, so if they say no to one, I might be screwed.
My primary choice is an Honours Degree in “Internet Engineering and Web Management” which covers the likes of PHP, MySQL and Javascript. The usual. The second is a more limited HND. For my primary choice, I’d have to move out, since though it’s more local than some places, it’s not local enough for me to commute daily.
As an advantage, applying as a “Mature Student” academic scores mean less then they would if I had just left college. So my work at Simple Machines should be of interest.
I finished my Personal Statement yesterday, and I also received the statement from my Reference, so the final step of the application is to pay £17 (Which is kinda stupid) I should be able to do that come Tuesday, leaving two days before the 15th January deadline. 
Here’s hoping I guess.
January 10th,2009
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Well, the long awaited Dissidia Final Fantasy has finally been released in Japan on the PSP, and a lot of people seem to be playing around with it with test battles.
I’m psyched for this game when it crosses shores to America around June (my prediction) as I’ll be importing it.
For those who don’t know what Dissidia is, it’s a Fighting Action RPG game by Square Enix to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Final Fantasy series. It features 22 Characters from the core twelve games. A hero and a Villain from 1 through 10, a hero from 11 and a villain from 12. With the 11 and 12 characters being unlockable.
The heroes are: Warrior of Light (1), Firion (2), Onion Knight (3), Cecil (4), Bartz (5), Terra (6), Cloud (7), Squall (8), Zidane (9), Tidus (10) and Shantotto (11).
The Villains are: Garland (1), Emperor Palamecia (2), Cloud of Darkness (3), Golbez (4), Exdeath (5), Kefka (6), Sephiroth (7), Ultimecia (8), Kuja (9), Jecht (10, Judge Gabranth (12)
The story is your classic save the world deal featuring a classic Final Fantasy cliché, the crystals!
Initially, I’ve been planning on playing as Tidus from Final Fantasy X first, but seeing some gameplay videos on Youtube, I get the feeling that I might go with Zidane from Final Fantasy IX. I dunno who to go for now, but it wont be the Warrior of Light that’s for sure.
When I get the game in my hands, that’s when I’ll post a proper review.
December 18th,2008
Video Games |
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As people have noticed, well, at least if you have a Playstation 3, Playstation Home is out. At least in it’s Beta phase.
The current amount of items is rather crappy, and the content is rather limited, but hey, it’s a start. I’ve joined up, despite not thinking much of it. A lot of the unique content is either unlockable via a Hong Kong PSN account which you would then need to keep or you have to pay REAL cash for it, if you had a virtual currency that you could earn via various methods or converted from real money that would be different. No way am I paying money for a virtual cowboy hat, actually, I wouldn’t pay money for a REAL cowboy hat
Though the content is rather lacking people can be creative, in creating Running Man Dance Trains, mostly on the EU server, this one was started by me and Joe Leslie, who also uploaded it! Not to mention starting Riots in front of the Home gates to save Woolworths, among other things.
On the US server, Nikki and I had a game of bowling and for three frames the first balls I shot were gutter balls, from the fourth, I was pulling back with a lot of Spares and Strikes and managed to win the game 131 to 101. In your face Nikki!
All in all, there’s alot to do in Home for Final.
December 16th,2008
Video Games |
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Some people don’t know how to do this, so I figure I’d give it a shot. Much like Mods for SMF, Themes can have their own settings exclusive to that theme, many themes do this in order to include Mod support for the more common mods like Arcades, Galleries and other links in the template_menu(). Better still, adding settings requires no database changes as everything goes into the themes table. Isn’t that a nice bonus!
First off, take a study at the Settings.template.php file. This file is the file that houses the settings themselves.
Lets say we want to allow admins to display “Hello World!” to users who are logged in, and toggle it on and off. For this, we can use a simple checkbox.
Start by doing a quick Ctrl+F search for:
function template_settings()
This function will be what stores settings in the Current Theme section of the admin center. Then in the $context['theme_settings'] array add:
array(
‘id’ => ‘hello_world’,
‘label’ => ‘Display Hello World to users?’;
),
The ID is what gets stored in the database when it is turned on or off. Next in your template, lets say index.template.php we can add:
// Is hello world turned on and we’re logged in as well?
if($settings['hello_world'] == 1 && $context['user']['is_logged'])
{
echo’
Hello World’;
}
Setting the $settings['hello_world'] part of the if statement to 1 will make sure that it will show only if it is actually turned on, since with a checkbox there are only two options 1 and 0.
Of course, if you’re going to release a theme on the theme site, we require that you use language strings, but I’ll cover that another time.
November 24th,2008
SMF |
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A new episode of the Simpsons aired last night for Season 20. Homer and Lisa Exchange Crosswords. The Synopsis is that Lisa discovers that she has a huge talent for solving Crossword puzzles and she then enters a tournament where Homer makes money betting on the matches, Lisa suffers the ultimate betrayal when Homer bets against her.
The episode was rather mediocre. It basically kept going back to common clichés such as “SKINNER!” from Chalmers and the musical montages that have become quite overused in recent episodes, practically every episode in Season 20 has one, this episode actually has two.
The ending is rather extreme, especially on Lisa’s part where she removes Simpson from her name and adopts Marge’s maiden name, Bouvier, as Homer has done a lot worse stuff to Lisa before, than just making a bet against her, the thing is though, Homer actually won that bet against Lisa, under Lisa’s own judgement of herself from past times she entered a tournament (such as I’m Spelling as Fast as I can or Lisa the Beauty Queen). So Lisa actually brought it on herself.
The ending was kinda rushed and had again, two more pointless guest stars, if you can call them guest stars and showed up for no more than three seconds.
Overall, I’ll give the episode a C, or traditionally, a 3 out of 5.
November 17th,2008
Simpsons |
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Welcome to my blog thing. You know how these work, I ramble on about stuff that has practically nothing to do with anything. But for now, you’re in luck as I don’t have anything I want to ramble on about. But don’t worry, you’ll be seeing some of that soon enough if I can be bothered to keep this thing up to date.
