I enjoy firing up Audiosurf 2 from time to time to have some rythmic musical fun. One of the things that has been bothering me, however, is the fact that Audiosurf 2 only integrates with Soundcloud for its music streaming. You can use local files, but since I stream all …

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This blog post is an update for this one. I was recently contacted regarding the original post no longer working. Indeed, the scholar.py version used there is being blocked by Google Scholar.

Looking at the scholar.py GitHub page, we do find an updated version from about 8 months …

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I routinely use Python, R and Java during my day-to-day tasks, but have been itching recently to get up to speed or try out some of the following languages.

This list basically serves as a note to myself to start experimenting with some of them:

• Haxe — basically in combination with …

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Imagine you have an Apache server set up with a virtualhost configuration listening to some domain, e.g.

my.domain:8080

You have a Flask app running at:

localhost:5000

You want to add a mod_proxy directive so that:

http://my.domain:8080/app_location/  --->  http://localhost:5000

Most resources will …

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Again that time of the year where Windows’s being reinstalled, so once again I’m jotting down a list of apps I normally install right away, slightly updated versus last year.

(This list last updated in May 2016.)

Web

• Skype is back. The web version was not robust enough …

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I’ve been looking at various Java decompilers recently for a project I’ve been working on in spare time.

Java code obfuscation is something I have an interest in for no particular reason, mostly because you see a variety of cool approaches popping up in the wild to prevent …

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Ever ran across a PDF export of a Powerpoint which looks like this?

Turns out it is not so easy to convert this to printable design (at least not without having access to the original presentation file, that is). Adobe Reader already allows to do the following:

1. Press Ctrl+K …

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Summary and Changes

This post describes how you can create a Python interpreter for a CanaryMod Minecraft server, providing access to the full internal Canary API (CanaryLib). Commands are issued on a separate console window and do not require players or server administrators to be running the game itself.

Following …

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I though it was just me, what with being busy and older and all, but it kind of looks like everybody agrees that 2014 has been a generally shitty year for gaming. Summarized, the arguments boil down to one of the following:

• Triple-A titles are released on-schedule, instead of on …

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Introduction

It should not come to a surprise that the Chinese technology giants are — just as their western counterparts, rolling out their respective versions of cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.

They are approaching it like most of their offerings:

1. Explore and learn from foreign competitors …

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