Category: Technical

Crusader Calculator ... live

November 20th, 2009
Just a quick post to say I finally went back and rewrote the method I was extracting data from the armory (I was using libxsl... which isn't available on my webhost). So it is now live at: http://gameldar.fdns.net/crusader/ In summary: it will grab… more »

Extracting WoW Achievements from the armory

October 14th, 2009
After playing around with the data formats from the armory (mainly the reputation and achievements sections) - it seems like the achievements are the least well defined. The achievements are grouped by categories as rendered by the menu on the left -… more »

Using PHP for reading the WoW Armory

October 14th, 2009
I've been playing around with extracting data from the WoW Armory. The main problem with reading from the armory is that if you don't specify the correct user agent the armory returns you some nicely formatted HTML. Which is fine for browsing - but if yo… more »

fuse-j for java 6

November 29th, 2007
I've been looking into fuse as a preliminary to a project I'm thinking of starting. Anyway given as I was looking to work in Java I had a look at fuse-j. Trying to compile it under java 6 failed however, because (as aptly pointed out in the fuse-j di… more »

Java3D and Compiz

November 3rd, 2007
In response to a query on the LG3D forums about being able to extra the applications from LG3D for use in a standard linux desktop I've been playing around with implementing Java3D to render through the support of Compiz. I've had some initial success as… more »