MWEB Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Servers

By On May 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I have been enjoying the new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive servers thoroughly since receiving my beta invite but have unfortunately not been able to play on any South African servers. There are currently only one server you will find in your “Community Server” browser; a gun-game hosted by WAGE.

For some reason MWEB Gaming’s servers do [...]

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Codbot, lua script for ADCH++

By On February 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Firstly, kudos to the guys from ADCH++ for their awesome DC++ hub software.

I thought a Call of Duty announcer would be nice as the people on the hub I run play CoD4 quite often. This bot simply emulates the CoD discovery protocol over the local network and then responds back to the user [...]

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Website publishing with Git

By On January 17, 2012 · 1 Comment

I recently decided to move a website I am managing from a Subversion VCS to a distributed system such as Git. I decided upon Git since I had used it before and limits imposed by the host machine on software installed.

The old SVN repository had become terribly slow and the size of the site [...]

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Programming and Mathematics

By On November 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I was inspired to write this blog post after reading Elegant Coding: Eleven Equations True Computer Science Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know.

The topic of mathematics and coding has been long debated with people on either side having [...]

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Hello world!

By On September 5, 2011 · 2 Comments

DEVZA is back! Feel free to look around and comment to heart’s content!

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Stellenbosch University student number algorithm

By On October 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Friday, me and my friend JP were talking about student numbers at the University of Stellenbosch. Apparently there is an algorithm to check whether a student number is valid or not. By chance of luck my girlfriend overheard me speaking about this and being a good engineer, remembered that she has done something [...]

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