Eye-catching photo album

dhteumeuleu.com have released a really nice interactive 3D image gallery.

http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/

I’m thinking it may be possible to modify this script to be used as a website logo. You cold grab the letters for the logo from Flickr and then display them using this script. Hovering around with the mouse would still spin the letters around. Clicking could either zoom them as it does already or could be links to other pages of your site.

New Year’s resolutions

It’s that time of year again. Time to throw out the old and bring in the new. Here are my resolutions for the coming year:

1. Stop procrastinating. This is a biggie so it’s at number 1. I need to write those Wordpress plugins I’ve been planning for ages. Blog more. Finally get around to looking at the J2EE stack. The list of things I’ve been putting off goes on. They will be done this year. I think to help me get things done I need to put targets on each thing - “Write one wordpress plugin by end of January”, and so on. The Zen To Done ebook should hopefully help out with this goal.

2. Stop smoking. Compared to number 1, this will be easy.

3.  Drink less coffee. I drink way too much at the moment, anything from 3 to 8 cups a day. It leaves me feeling wired, dehydrated and tired.

4. Drink more water. Goes hand-in-hand with number 3.

5. Get more sleep. I always feel that going to bed at a reasonable time is “wasted time” - I tend to stay up late doing stuff and as a result feel washed out the next day. If I can get some decent kip then I should need less coffee!

What the Null?

If I’m having a bad day at work there is one website that will always cheer me up: The Daily WTF. It’s full of techy humour and never fails to raise a laugh. These two code snippets are from here, you have to be a developer to appreciate these:

void failIfNull(Object o) throws RuntimeException {
  if (o == null)
  {
    throw new RuntimeException(o.getClass().getName() + " is null!");
  }
}

and…..

// An exception may be thrown before the [...] is fully initialised
if (this.equals(null))
{
  Warning.showWarning((JFrame) null, title, msg);
}
else
{
  Warning.showWarning(this, title, msg);
}

Game walkthrough videos

I’ve been playing Call Of Duty 4 on Veteran level. I’ve been stuck on the TV station section of the “Charlie Don’t Surf” for God knows how long now - I’d tried various routes through the main hall but I always died just before I got through the exit door to the safety of the next checkpoint.

That is, until I found out about http://www.nextgenwalkthroughs.com. They have many video walkthroughs including COD4. They only do walkthroughs of games on the most difficult settings. I hope they soon get a SKATE one up as I’m sick to the back teeth with some of the challenges on that!