The EWCC site is currently being updated due to an issue with the wiki, the updated site should be back by the end of the week. Update – site will be up shortly, turns out Google was hammering the site effectively triggering a denial of service… Note to all media-wiki users, check your robots.txt as [...]

Just a quick Git usage note to self on this… From time to time a branch will inevitably end up redundant in your history as it is merged into the ultimate target branch (referred to here as live). First checkout your live branch git checkout live To determine candidates to remove. You can find all [...]

Need to do a bitwise test inside your XSLT – well without native support you can use the following… <xml/><br /> <stuff><br /> Value being checked = <xsl:value-of select="$testvar"><br /> test bit 1:<xsl:value-of select="number($testvar) mod 2)=1"><br /> test bit 2:<xsl:value-of select="floor((number($testvar) div 2) mod 2)=1"><br /> test bit 3:<xsl:value-of select="floor((number($testvar) div 4) mod 2)=1"><br /> [...]

Well just had one of those weekends when you go home, pull out an old machine and test your latest creation, only to find it runs a little slow… Made some simple tweaks to make sure that people who play the game on a slower machine can still play it fairly (i.e. so if time [...]

Taken from this site Handy little regex – \s*<!– (#|instance)(begin|end)[^>]+–>