What are you working on? December 2011 Edition

[DrLuke]

[QUOTE=Swebonny;33897129]I would feel shit if I actually got it. Would probably write a mail explaining about the situation :v:[/QUOTE]

No you wouldn't

[Armandur]

Jokes, aside, did you just modify the file and run it? And it was sent as a valid entry, or what?

Automerge :(

[Legend286]

[QUOTE=Swebonny;33897049]Heh something funny happened a few days ago. Mediamarkt (a large german electronics chain) was hosting a competition on a Swedish news site. The goal was to achieve many clicks as possible on their flash ad, the winner would get a laptop. Since I just had finished my first programming course at university, I wanted to see if I've actually learned something.

So I decompile the file, and to my amazement I understand most of the crap. So I change their "anti-cheat" function, and made some more smaller changes. After 1 hour I had around 1 million clicks.
The next day I got a mail about it, which said that I'd won the competition, but couldn't give me the laptop because they argued that no human could make over 300 clicks / minute.

ultra 1337 blackhat h4cker in the making right here baby[/QUOTE]

Threaten to sue them, they'll soon reconsider whether you can click a button 5 times a second (I can?)

[Lord Ned]

[QUOTE=Legend286;33897434]Threaten to sue them, they'll soon reconsider whether you can click a button 5 times a second (I can?)[/QUOTE]

24 hours a day, nonstop?

[Lily]

[QUOTE=Lord Ned;33897443]24 hours a day, nonstop?[/QUOTE]

Some people do extreme shit

[voodooattack]

Perl's configure script is making my ears bleed.

[editline]26th December 2011[/editline]

I mean.. why the fuck WHY PEOPLE WHY

[editline]26th December 2011[/editline]

fuck it, I give up.

Unless someone can decode this cryptic shit and tell me what it means:

panic: opcode "custom" value 168065164 is invalid at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys/Opcode.pm line 78, <DATA> chunk 9.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys/Safe.pm line 31, <DATA> line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys/Safe.pm line 35, <DATA> line 9.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/glib-mkenums line 5, <DATA> line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/glib-mkenums line 5, <DATA> line 9

[h2ooooooo]

[QUOTE=Legend286;33897434]Threaten to sue them, they'll soon reconsider whether you can click a button 5 times a second (I can?)[/QUOTE]

Sweden is not America! You can't sue for everything.

[Jookia]

Gah. Merry Christmas. Or boxing day. Or holidays. Now that all that's over with I think I'll go back to programming.

[acpm]

[img]http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/1806/lopensteamworksmicrosof.png[/img]

i cant wait to be a useless piece of shit all day and bind all these functions

[Socram]

Does anyone have any sort of resource/tips for setting up isometric tile-based games?

I don't need code or anything like that but any sort of general knowledge I could gain on storing the tiles, tile picking, etc. I imagine would be helpful for my next project. I remember seeing a really interesting post somewhere in this thread on tile picking I believe but now I can't find it.

Thanks!

[Legend286]

[QUOTE=h2ooooooo;33899247]Sweden is not America! You can't sue for everything.[/QUOTE]

Touché.

[Within]

Progress - finally. This is my first serious shot at anything network related and this time I actually got it working. I did a test in which the client application was on a different computer on the network and it worked great, so don't mind the screenshot.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/33qoP.png[/IMG]

What you're seeing is all its capable of doing at the moment (remote messages, run an application, launch a browser navigated at a site). Hello means a client connected.
The current state of the server application is (to my best judgement) that it's ready to just be fed with any commands I want to add and the error handling will take care of it if the client fucks up.

Opportunities... I see them all.

[supersnail11]

Guys, I need help.
I'm addicted to programming E-books.
I just uploaded 20 to my kindle and I'm searching for more.

Is this a good thing?

[Yogurt]

[QUOTE=supersnail11;33900702]Guys, I need help.
I'm addicted to programming E-books.
I just uploaded 20 to my kindle and I'm searching for more.

Is this a good thing?[/QUOTE]

You have three months left to live.

[acpm]

[QUOTE=supersnail11;33900702]Guys, I need help.
I'm addicted to programming E-books.
I just uploaded 20 to my kindle and I'm searching for more.

Is this a good thing?[/QUOTE]

You're going to die.

[Within]

[QUOTE=supersnail11;33900702]Guys, I need help.
I'm addicted to programming E-books.
I just uploaded 20 to my kindle and I'm searching for more.

Is this a good thing?[/QUOTE]

Bye.

[Map in a box]

[QUOTE=Yogurt;33900772]You have three months left to live.[/QUOTE]
Kindle battery life is ~1 month so he only has 1 month left to live

[Bumrang]

[QUOTE=supersnail11;33900702]Guys, I need help.
I'm addicted to programming E-books.
I just uploaded 20 to my kindle and I'm searching for more.

Is this a good thing?[/QUOTE]

Oh wow I'm sorry.

Live your life while you can!

[Maurice]

[QUOTE=supersnail11;33900702]Guys, I need help.
I'm addicted to programming E-books.
I just uploaded 20 to my kindle and I'm searching for more.

Is this a good thing?[/QUOTE]

That sucks bro. I'll miss you.

[Jookia]

supersnail11; 1999 - 2011 will be missed

[Deco Da Man]

[QUOTE=Maurice;33901037]That sucks bro. I'll miss you.[/QUOTE]

/me is confused.

[robmaister12]

pngcrush doesn't let you overwrite the input file, so I made a small batch script for that. And at the same time, I learned about gists in Github...

[url]https://gist.github.com/1520648[/url]

[acpm]

[QUOTE=robmaister12;33901269]pngcrush doesn't let you overwrite the input file, so I made a small batch script for that. And at the same time, I learned about gists in Github...

[url]https://gist.github.com/1520648[/url][/QUOTE]

I thought it's default functionality did that? I was sure it had an option for it at the very least. Oh well. Neat.

[editline]26th December 2011[/editline]

You can attempt to re-crush files, perhaps that's where I got that idea from.

[robmaister12]

[QUOTE=amcfaggot;33901342]I thought it's default functionality did that? I was sure it had an option for it at the very least. Oh well. Neat.

[editline]26th December 2011[/editline]

You can attempt to re-crush files, perhaps that's where I got that idea from.[/QUOTE]

I just read through all the possible options, -nofilecheck does that apparently. Oh well. I guess the for loop still makes it worth it.

[reevezy67]

[QUOTE=supersnail11;33900702]Guys, I need help.
I'm addicted to programming E-books.
I just uploaded 20 to my kindle and I'm searching for more.

Is this a good thing?[/QUOTE]

I thought it was bad that I have 4, at least I have a few years left.

[Austech2]

Uploaded Day 2 of my winter game development, was about 6 hours of development.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaUer69Fw8o&feature=g-upl&context=G2848457AUAAAAAAAAAA[/media]

Tasks Completed: 
Completed Tasks:

Ability to Drop / Pickup Items

Tested Tile Collision

Cropping Sprite Sheet into Skeletal Sprites

Skeletal Animations

Animated Sprites

Tile Sheet Loading

Player Animations

Player Animation Switching (Move Directions)

Tested Using Items

Switching / Changing Clothes

Functional GUI (WIP)

Functional Inventory Pop Up calls

Testing Item Pickups

Fixed Centering code for Sprite Class

Tested Tile Entities.

Tile Manager Helper Functions

[Lily]

As a bonus on that dumb podcast video yesterday, heres some idiot who thinks C is not adequate for graphics:
[url]http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=24445[/url] (it turns into a shitfest at the second last post of page 1)

[DeadKiller987]

[quote]Why else do we have graphic accelerators if C was adequate for graphics?[/quote]
:|
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[Vivelin]

:dance:

Profile selection now has a "Set as default" button, which makes that the profile that the application starts with. It now works with Steam Community IDs and Steam IDs, along with custom URLs.

Profiles work with private profiles and don't show empty fields. With Steam ID conversion fully working, profiles also have a textual Steam ID and a Steam Community ID. Tapping on the community ID field opens the Steam website for that profile.

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/764206/WP7/SteamCommunity/profile_7.png[/img]

Friends list is now implemented too! Tapping a friend loads his profile. Hitting the back button still brings you back to your own.

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/764206/WP7/SteamCommunity/friends_1.png[/img]

Sorting is a todo, and I'll probably want to look up how to do the touch feedback effect thingy.

Not bad for a first WP7 application, if I may say so myself.

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=DeadKiller987;33903450]:|
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Well why else? The dude pointed out that around the time C became popular, graphic accelerators came out. You think there's no conspiracy here? You think it's just a coincidence that C and mainstream portable OSes became popular, graphic accelerators hit the market? Hah. You believe what you want, I'll believe what the news doesn't want you to know.