Utilities
I'm quite fond of producing little utility programs that help with various tasks. I'm also fond of silly little widgets that are largely useless but interesting or kind of fun.
Currently, I have released the following:
Champions Online power parser
Winston — Thu, 2009-10-08 14:33
My Champions Online guild have a cool bbcode plugin for displaying your character's powers. However, you have to set it up manually - that won't do!
This page is intended to remove the manual work from setting this up, by parsing your character's profile page on the www.champions-online.com website. If that site is down, or your character profile isn't publicly accessible, then this won't work.
SQLite database interface
Winston — Wed, 2009-09-30 12:47
We use SQLite in Modular Combat, and I wanted to be able to browse the database like you might do in SQL Server Management Studio. This application lets you do just that.
Showing some emotion
Winston — Tue, 2009-09-15 15:44
This is the kind of thing I get up to when I'm bored. This application controls a smiley face, and has sliders to control 4 seperate emotional components: happiness/sadness, suprise, anger and confusion. As they are independent, you can combine theme into "combo" emotions such as "happy and suprised", "angry and confused", etc.
String functions
Winston — Tue, 2009-09-15 10:09
In my job, I regularly have to manipulate, and extract data from, large xml files and large sql queries. Sometimes its a "remove first 10 chars from 100 lines" situation, or a "find all the lines that don't contain any of these strings," or just I want to do a find and replace on a string that involves newline characters.