Othala.co.uk

Ideas flowing, coming faster than the fingers can keep up, but that’s ok because attention is not required. Nests within nests, deep-set recursive madness. Arrays, oh god, the arrays! Then clarity..everything slots in to place, you are no longer trying to code, you simply are. Welcome to the trance. (more…)

While performing general maintainance on a WebPage that I work on for my current job, I was asked to create a second SlideShow on our front page. Now up until then, the single SlideShow worked perfectly. We had no need to re-use it, and as such it was a relatively simple script. It took input relating to the image path, and the URL it was to link to, and that was it. One drawback was the amount of code that had to be used, which involved three blocks of code; one to initialise the script, a second to manage the rotation of the images and links, and a third block to populate the script itself. Re-using this out-of-date script seemed a very brutish solution to a possibly interesting experiment and learning experience, but at the time there were a multitude of other jobs that I had to be getting on with, and so in came the brute. (more…)

Well, it’s been a couple of years and Psilocybeing finally thought it was time to give Othala.co.uk a face lift, and so he is happy to present the new and improved Othala.co.uk!

Othala.co.uk is a repository for the creations, deliberations and thoughts of Psilocybeing on subjects ranging from Digital and Photographic Art, to articles and creations in the field of Programming.

You will also find here a Blog, which Psilocybeing will update from time-to-time with thoughts, speculations and more often than not, completely unadulterated ramblings.

Below is the Traveller WebLog, from a development project that has been on hold for some time now, the goal of which was to create a space-based MMORPG for Sonys console, the PSP. (more…)

Update: following a requestion by ‘PLaci’, the output of this script now includes System Security Status
Download: EVE Route Calculator, PHP Source (security status update)
Download: EVE Route Calculator, MySQL Database (security status update)

Through 2006-2007, I played EVE quite a bit, and thanks to CCP kindly exporting their entire data-set (Solar Systems, Jump Routes etc) the players have been able to create a multitude of in-game and out-of-game applications. One such application that I wanted to make for quite some time was a Jump Route Calculator, similar to the EVE Clients autopilot. (more…)

Recently I joined Second Life and was amazed to find such a highly customizable and interactive world at my disposal. As I worked through the scripting language used in game I found functions that allowed for communication between HTTP servers, as well as communication from an XML-RPC interface. “Great!” I thought, but unfortunately the XML-RPC interface only allows outside sources to initiate communication, which for a two-way communication system was no good.

The below pair of scripts are designed to allow two-way communication between an object in game and an external PHP script. (more…)

PME is one of my favourite projects, which is unfortunately on hold due to real-life getting in the way of development. The idea behind this little piece of Homebrew for Sonys PSP is to generate Binaural Beats, similar to the application ‘Brain Wave Generator’. (more…)