http://becauserobots.com/rot.user.js It (very slowly) rotates the page, assuming their using a mozilla browser. I may release a future revision with more features, but this is it for now. Enjoy.
Tags: javascript
Just threw this together and printed one out and stuck it to my cubicle wall. You may notice three extra colors, those are just three I picked from our company logo for when I do corporate work– I’d recommend replacing them with colors that are more useful for you.
If you’ve spent any time messing around in Photoshop, the GIMP, Illustrator, Inkscape, or any other art or drawing program, you’ve probably encountered these two. RGB is fairly simple to explain but CMYK seems to be seldom explained at all. RGB is simple– its the brightness or amount of Red, Green, and Blue that make [...]
Tags: graphic
For some PHP scripts that I wrote to be run from within terminals, I figured out the control characters need to underline (and stop underlining) text from PHP. [code][/code] In my own scripts, I just use $U and $R to save some typing. Anyway, enjoy, its a nice way to spruce up help messages so [...]
Source control isn’t exactly a popular, every day phrase outside of software development. At the root of source control, there are really three goals: back ups collaboration publishing Now, none of those are particularly unique, and source control is hardly a waste of resources if it is only being used for two of those above. [...]
Tags: linux, subversion
BecauseRobots now has two (that’s right, two) Personas for Firefox available! BecauseRobots Dark and BecauseRobots Light are available in the Personas gallery. Personas is a Firefox extension that lets you pick background images for the top and bottom Firefox bars, like a theme. Enjoy the new Personas. BecauseRobots belong under your location bar monitoring your [...]
So, I’m sure there are ways to make this simpler out there besides picking a shorter word than ‘calc’, but here goes… khamer@stout:~$ calc() { echo $[$*]; } This creates a function called calc that does basic calculator stuff for you. For example, khamer@stout:~$ calc 2+3*(5**2) 77 Note that it doesn’t like spaces, but hey, [...]
Tags: linux
There are many factors that are reviewed as part of the certification. Below I’ve mentioned some of the most pertinent. Hopefully you find it useful for determining how to improve your guild so you too can be certified. Guild Organization It’s important that a guild has some type of organization. Traditional forms of guild organization [...]
Tags: warcraft
The staff at BecauseRobots all have enjoyed playing World of Warcraft at one time or another, and we’ve all had our share of awesome and wretched guild experiences. After seeing what it takes to have a good guild, we’ve decided to put together a guild certification program. Information about what sorts of things we will [...]
Tags: warcraft