Archive | March, 2008

Enemy Down

By on March 25, 2008 in Portfolio

Towards the end of TNWA, Enemy Down was ported to the Ruby on Rails platform with an amazing tournament system. The new site, however, was never completely finished due to TNWA running out of funds. It is still up and running today and quite a few tournaments are run here. In total three sites make up “Enemy Down”, www (the original PHP site), forums (PHP / vBulletin) and the eu site which is pictured above. The original PHP site, original written by hobbyists suffered many performance problems. I optimised it to the level where it could cope with, not only the traffic it had at the time, but a lot more traffic than it could ever dream of.

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Formula One to return to BBC TV

By on March 20, 2008 in Random Rants

No more commercial breaks! Makes it all worth watching. So this is where the money they saved from giving Neighbours to Channel 5 has gone?

“The BBC has secured the television rights to Formula One from the 2009 season. The five-year deal marks the return of the sport to BBC screens 12 years after ITV began broadcasting Grands Prix. Hopefully they leave James Allen with ITV”

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Blue LEDs To Reset Tired Truckers’ Body Clocks

By on March 20, 2008 in Random Rants

This is clearly the new, safer, caffeine – for those late night coding/gaming sessions.

“Eerie blue LEDs in truck cabs and truck stops could be the key to reducing accidents caused by drowsy drivers, say US researchers. They say bathing night drivers in the right light can increase their alertness by resetting their body clocks.”

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