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Real Life and Video Games
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Real Life and Video Games

At university, the "What do you study?" ice-breaker didn't really work so well when your answer was "Computer Science". However, a historian friend of mine was by contrast frustrated at how open ended her subject area was. "So maybe no-one's particularly interested by what you do but when I say what I study it's always, 'Medieval History? Oh, I've heard of a King...'." In a similar vein another friend of mine is a 3D artist making Playstation 3 games and he suffers from strangers "educating" him on what would make a good game. I know most of us have artistic...

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D-Lighted: The lightweight, multi-platform database tool
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D-Lighted: The lightweight, multi-platform database tool

D-Lighted is a free, open-source Windows database tool that allows users to connect to multiple different database platforms all from within the same small executable. The simple, uncluttered user interface is perfect for DBAs or developers who need to get into a database quickly, open up a table and check the data, add or delete a row, or edit some values. D-Lighted currently supports connections to Microsoft SQL, MySQL (thanks to MySQL's .Net Connector), SQLite (thanks to System.Data.SQLite), Oracle and PostgreSQL (thanks to pgFoundary's .Net Data Adapter for PostgreSQL) but visitors to this blog are free to request more in...

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Fantasy Football Team Selector
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Fantasy Football Team Selector

The start of the new football season in England is upon us and for some this means careful deliberation over their Fantasy Football League team for the opening week. It's a complicated task. There have been big money moves over the summer, recovery from injury for some, other players saw a strong end to the previous season carried into summer friendlies and, as always, there are the new boys up from the Championship. Help is here though with the Fantasy Football Team Selector available from the download section. Simply open up the Excel spreadsheet, enable macros and click on the...

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OLE Automation Date Converter
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OLE Automation Date Converter

Have you ever had problems with numbers somewhere around 40,000 claiming to be dates? It could well be that you need a tool to help you quickly convert dates from the OLE Automation Date - aka OADate - format into something a bit more human readable. If so you're in luck, simply go to the Life Beyond Fife GitHub repository to get hold of the sourcecode, or download the executable. Or read on if you want a bit more background. OLE Automation Dates, or more simply OA dates is a Microsoft standard for specifiying a date and time in a...

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