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I would like to reach out and find a few users of the existing EVE-Central API in order to perform regression tests against the new API service. If your website or application uses the API and you would be willing to test under a new…
Read more →After a test period by the EVE-Central Google Group members, I am pleased to announce Contribtastic 2.1.1 for EVE-Central. Contribtastic is our cache-scanning no-nonsense upload client.
Read more →Here is a prototype “home page” for EVE-Central, the top-portion only. Opinions?
Read more →Contribtastic 2.0.3 (the EVE-Central.com upload client) is now available, and far less crashy than before.
Read more →I’ve loaded a part of my back-catalog of software to github. Included into the transfer is:
Read more →In iOS, there is no way to slug a background image into a `UIView` - making it slightly trickier to style your new iOS application background (and who doesn't like the new iOS 5 linen?). However, you can apply a `UIColor`. Did you know…
Read more →When you think of user documentation authoring systems, a couple of traditional tools often come to mind: FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, InDesign, RoboHelp, LyX, TeX files, MadCap Flare. Some are fully proprietary, while others embrace…
Read more →As you may have heard, EVE-Metrics is planning on moving to bigger and better things. This leaves (the older, more battle scared, and way less slick) EVE-Central as the only remaining EVE-Online market data aggregator. Despite not being…
Read more →A new version of Contribtastic, the 100% open source cache reading uploader, is now available. If you’ve been hit with the data.pickle corruption bug from previous versions, this is an essential upgrade.
Read more →I have had several questions regarding the "rle_unpack" function in libevecache. In order to not repeat myself in e-mails, I decided to make a quick post describing the logic: The market rows are compressed with an odd variant of…
Read more →So, I'm doing it after all. Reverse engineering the cache files. The format is actually surprisingly simple once you determine the identifiers of all the data fields (and their lengths). No reverse compiling or digging into the EVE…
Read more →As a statistic for the internet, I would like to report that my Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter works just fine. I purchased it from new stock at an Apple store on April 2nd, and am using it with a 2009 Mac Mini base…
Read more →Have you ever wanted to use the UNIX shell utility tee, but instead of simply dumping to a file, invoke a series of subcommands that would run inside the pipeline? If so, I give you ptee, now available in version 1.0.
Read more →I’ve updated the IRM demo at http://www.stackfoundry.com/irmdemo/demo to the latest Git version. Everything should be working, if not, let me know.
Read more →You may be like me, and have a large (20"+, or especially 30" in this case) monitor attached to your computer. You're also a avid computer user and have more than one program open at a time which you want to view simultaneously. You…
Read more →Thanks to a great community member, we now have data for Black Rise (the new region in Empyrean Age), before CCP has the data available in their periodic dumps. -10 points for CCP, since it has been over a month since the release of the…
Read more →Today I'm going to show you how to interface Python to Apache HBase using Facebook's Thrift package. Hbase is a documented oriented database which is very similar to Google's BigTable (in fact its more or less a clone of BigTable as…
Read more →Just a quick little update not related to any ongoing projects (more on the projects later).
Read more →Ever heard of VGA Planets? If not, then you can probably safely skip this post. But if you do, I introduce you to one of my first released programming projects. I made this in Junior High, using QBasic(!!). It was an addon for the VGA…
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