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This summer I was lucky enough to receive a Nuffield bursary to work on a short research project. During this time I build a game to study the seeing and sensing of others across multi-touch work surfaces. I combined interactive tabletops and vibrotactile sensory augmentation to enhance collaborative task performance.

The end result was game, where players must work together to defend their crops from swarms of hungry locusts. The game incorporates a number of technologies including: Diamond multi-touch tables, and vibrotactile actuators. The software isn’t entirely complete due to lack of time. There is a project homepage at http://locusts.googlecode.com/

 

Cropped screenshot showing a game of checkers in progress.

As coursework for one of my subjects I was required to implement a Checkers (English Draughts) game in Java. I’m quite please with the result, and so have decided to share it here. The program has minimal features, but is quite polished. To try it out click on the launch link below.

Launch the application

Instructions

Clicking the above link will download the game to your computer. You will be given a security prompt as the whether or not I should be trusted. If you want to play you will have to click “Trust”. Assuming you do trust me the game will then run. Read more…

I wrote this class to handle smooth gradients of colour and other data types. Specifically I wanted a robusts way to handle fonts size and colour for tag-cloud object that I’m working on at the moment. Although the task wasn’t very complicated I am quite pleased with my solution because it is so easy to use and transparent.

Example 1: Simple Gradient

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The following is a PHP class that will parse Apache webserver access logs and return each lines component values in an associative array (hash). It’s ported from a CPAN module but I’ve made my own improvements.

View Source http://kungf.eu/wp-content/uploads/apachelogregex.class.phps
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Warning: This plug-in is now unsupported. I haven’t had time to develop it for a while, and I can’t see that changing any time soon. If anybody wishes to do something with this then by all means be my guest.

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Referer [sic] is a plugin for the popular blogging software WordPress. It allows you to display information about refers you have had from other websites. Currently available stats are Top URLs, Top Hosts Top Search Keywords, and Top Search Phrases. Basically these show how many people have clicked through from a given website and what people are searching for to find your website.

You can see this plugin in action at the bottom of my right-hand sidebar (see http://kitty0.org/blog/).

I know it’s spelt wrong but somehow that is the spelling used in the HTTP/1.1 Specification (RFC 2616) so I guess it is now the official spelling when describing “the address (URI) of the resource from which the Request-URI was obtained.”

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I had some time off work which gave me the opportunity to get another version of the plugin out the door. Learn more abou it in the Referer Plugin section.

• Added Manage options subpage which allows you to view and manipulate stored referer records.
• Moved Log upload controls and other operations to Tools options subpage.
• Simplified default display templates, because they where confusing and where causing problems with IE (surprise-surprise.)
• Improved Apache Log Upload functionality so you can now set any valid CustomLog directive for parsing.
• More…

Finally got round to finishing version 0.30 of Referer Wordpress plugin. I’ve been working on it for a while, changes include:

• Added support for compressed log uploades in gzip format.
• Added ability to process a log file already on the server.
• Improved support for multilinqual characters in referer urls.
• Improved options page layout.
• Countless bug fixes.
• more…

I have a new job; selling breast cancer insurance. Not my dream job but it is quite well payed so I can’t complain.

New project; http://bigmood.com Nothin there at time of writing due to server migration but its all going to be very exiting when it’s up and running.

So you think you are anonymous? Think again. http://kitty0.org/geoipdemo/

Yes I know it’s spelled wrong but somehow that is the spelling used in the HTTP/1.1 Specification (RFC 2616) so I guess it is now the official spelling when describing “the address (URI) of the resource from which the Request-URI was obtained.”

I have made a plugin for WordPress that processes and stores these referers and can display a list of top refering hosts and also top search words. Basically this allows me to see: Firstly how many people are clicking on links to my website and from which website. Secondly what words people are using in popular search engines to find my site.

Edit: A new version has been released and the rest of this post has been moved here: http://kungf.eu/archived/referer-wordpress-plugin

Python program to solve the Zen Puzzle Garden game. Somewhat flawed in that it can take anywhere from a a split second to millions of years to solve a given problem.

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