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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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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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