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Several updates for the site: I’ve udared wordpress to the latest version, added Twitter widget for contact page, updated my contact information which now containes Finnish contacts. And I’m also planning to get back to python development.

Together with mr. Vinchkovsky from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy we started a new project PGNReader: a small program written in Python for reading and working with PGN files which are used for storing and sharing information about chess games. Hosted at Google Code.

A small update: now links to the 2nd level (e.g. http://hollgam.com/blog/) are clickable.

Language: Python (2.6.1)
Version: 0.13 (March 05, 2009)
Requirements: PMW, PIL
Creators: Hollgam
Screenshots: screenshot1, screenshot2

A game of chess. Not playable yet, just a board with pieces which can be moved.

Download: latest version

Updates:

Version 0.1alpha – February 28, 2009:
- Board with movable pieces.

Version 0.11 – March 04, 2009:
- Function for showing legal moves.

Version 0.12 – March 05, 2009:
- Fixed several bugs in the function for showing legal moves.
- Added option of showing legal moves.
- 90% completed function for validating made moves.

Version 0.13 – March 05, 2009:
- Ability to make castles (not fully done).
- Added timers of time spent on making current move, total times of White and Black.
- Fixed several bugs.
- Added icon.

Language: Python (2.6.1)
Requirements: PMW
Creators: Hollgam
Screenshots: screenshot1, screenshot2

A small game of  Tic Tac Toe written in Python.

Download: latest version

Language: Python (2.6.1)
Requirements: PMW
Creators: Hollgam
Screenshots: screenshot1, screenshot2, screenshot3

A small implementation of Windows’ Minesweeper. This is under construction. I did this in one evening, code needs optimizing and revising in some cases. Even its name is beta I haven’t decided which one to choose yet.

Download: latest version

I got a new USB stick today and decided to make a good IDE-on-the-go out of it. I installed XAMPP, my favorite text editor, FTP manager and than I came across my favorite IDE for python development – Netbeans… After about 3 hours of fighting with it I did actually make it portable

So what you need to do to make Netbeans portable:

1. First, copy already installed Netbeans to your USB stick. ( I recommend choosing a zipped version from here then simply unpack it)
2. Now there are 2 possible ways: editing a configuration file and applying commands to a shortcut. I’ll describe both:
   • 1st: find file netbeans.conf in directory etc\ inside a directory with Netbeans.  Now line
     

     netbeans_default_userdir="${HOME}/.netbeans/6.5"

     replace with

     netbeans_default_userdir=".\YOUR_USER_FOLDER"

     where YOUR_USER_FOLDER is a folder with different configs. It must not be in the same directory that your Netbeans is (it was my mistake).

     Now find line with something like

     netbeans_jdkhome="/path/to/jdk"

     it defines path  to a place where JDK is installed in your stick. Replace it with something like

     netbeans_jdkhome=".\JDK\"

     don’t forget to replace JDK with a valid for you path

   • 2nd: if you are using PStart or something similar to that make a shortcut for netbeans.exe and add commands:
     

      --jdkhome "%pdrive%\PATH_TO_JDK" --userdir "%pdrive%\PATH_TOU_USERDIR"

     where PATH_TO_JDK is a directory with JDK on your flash USB and PATH_TOU_USERDIR is your user directory. Again it must not be in the same directory that your Netbeans is.

And that’s it! Happy coding

I published several new  and updated some of my old opensearch  plugins:

• Google Book Search
  
• Google Code Search
• Waz-warez.org – warez forum concentrated on movies
  
• OVGuide.com – video search engine, very handy
  
• updated warez-bb.org searching add-on: fixes some grammar
• and added 2 plugins that search sites with adult content… ( I’d been asked by one friend of mine to do them. I hope they will become useful…)

Plus I uploaded all my stuff to mycroft.mozdev.org

I’ve updated the site. Optimized code a little bit and it is more editable, added several goodies from CSS3: shadow for a main div and it’s now possible to resize it! Unfortunately it works only in Safari now.

Shadow:

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-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 5px 10px #CCBA99;

Resize:

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resize: both;
max-width:1200px;
overflow: auto;