20/05/2009
A little more than a week ago a guy named Kalle Persson, whom I had only spoken to a few times over the internet about some issues with my computer, asked me if I was interested in helping him build a point-and-click adventure game à la Monkey Island. Since I happen to be incredibly unemployed, and won’t be starting university until this fall, I happily agreed to help him out whatever way I could.
And thus our epic quest to create an epic game about a man on a quest (we’re still working on the specifics) began!
Read the rest of this article »
15/04/2009
It’s no big secret that I absolutely love Bash. It’s such a simple, yet versatile tool. Ever since I first discovered the power contained within it, I’ve written plenty of scripts to automate tasks that would otherwise take me a long time to do manually. Sometimes I write scripts so that my little brother can do certain things that would otherwise require him to use relatively complex command-line tools. But what would be the point of replacing a command-line tool with another command-line tool?
Sometimes a graphical user interface is what’s needed - and that’s where Zenity comes into play!
Read the rest of this article »
9/04/2009
If you’re not a member of the Swedish community ungdomar.se or any of the other sites from the same company (e.g. gameplayer.se) this article will be of very little use to you. However, if you are a member of said community, I will show you how to get data from there onto your desktop using a little bit of Bash magic combined with the power of Conky. Even if you don’t care about ungdomar.se, the same techniques that I’m going to show you could be used to fetch wheather information, the TV guide, stock prices, or pretty much anything else.
Read the rest of this article »
8/04/2009
So you’re looking for an easy way to burn those Xbox 360 isos to a DVD in Linux? A couple of days ago I would’ve said:
Sorry pal, but if you’re looking for a graphical way to do it, I believe you’re shit out of luck. Now stop bugging me, I’m playing TeeWorlds!
Thanks to BoxBlaze, that has changed!
Read the rest of this article »
