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C#: Dictionary vs List — Benchmark Testing
NOTE: These tests are done on Windows 7 64bit, 12gig ram, Intel i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz I’ve been working on a spaceship type game (New game in progress) in C#/XNA and ran into a little question new coders normally want to know. Should we use Dictionary or List for our elements of data? It depends on [...] -
Mud Map Designer v1.02
This is a project I did a few months back.. I didn’t see many mud map editors that I could use overall, alot of them were basic ASCII editors, or didn’t work on 64 bit processors because of the removal of support for 16 bit applications. I tend to help out in a MUD based [...] -
Modified: Solmetra Flash Uploader v1.02 (to multi-file uploader) & A quick way to pass variables.
My boss was looking around for flash uploaders, and he had his mindset on the Solmetra Flash Uploader v1.02. This flash uploader is very nice, specially because it supports custom GUIs! The uploader overall has a nice/clean feel to it. There were some minor things that needed to be fixed, and some extra features I [...] -
VB.NET/CSV File – How to add ‘Double quote text qualifiers’ quickly and easily!
Text qualifiers are used to let a program know that anything between a certain character should be interpreted as it is (Normally text). If you don’t get what ‘adding double quote text qualifier in a csv file’ means; In simple terms this will change a line like this: email,fname,lname,ipaddress to: “email”,”fname”,”lname”,”ipaddress”. Very simple. I recently [...] -
PHP: Easy to use logging class for your scripts.
Often for my work I am always having to add logging to most of my scripts so I had to create a simple plug and play script that will simply things to do this for me. This script below is rather clean and easy to handle your logging needs. The class also handles timestamps when [...] -
PHP: GIF animation splitter (Split any GIF animiations – frame by frame properly!)
I have been looking for a GIF animation splitting script for quite awhile, but have not found any luck with any basic ones. There has been a couple but they do not process GIF animations properly anymore, because GIFs now are optimized etc You will end up getting frames that aren’t ‘complete’ frames because they [...] -
Opera and Youtube (Google) video playback issue (As of April 14th) – Fix
I do use Opera. For the most case, you love or hate the browser, but I’ve gotten to enjoy Opera for a bit now, specially the new Opera 10. Just yesterday, YouTube released a patch to attempt to prevent people from using adblockers and other tools that remove there ads/edit there content. The problem is, [...] -
PHP: Multiple submit button choices in a single FORM
This one is just posted mainly for a friend. He did not understand how to process data differently depending on the submit button clicked, only using ONE HTML FORM. Many people would end up making multiple forms on one or many pages to solve this, which can get rather messy or annoying. There is a [...] -
PHP: Randomizing a text file using PHP + MYSQL, quickly & efficient
I had one person approach me recently about my previous blog entry, stating that you cannot process randomization quickly in MYSQL because SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER BY RAND()"; would take horribly long to process when you have a large amount of records stored in a database. This is very true! RAND() is very slow [...] -
PHP: How to get a random image to display from a specific folder
So you have a folder full of images, and now you want to display a random image? No problem. There are a few examples you can find around online. However, for alot of the examples, you need to input the set amount of images that are actually in the folder, which can get annoying if [...]
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