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Riddler: What’s going to come out of the gun?
Batman: Justice!

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 3

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 3

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 3

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 2

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 3

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 1

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 1

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 2

Ork DeathSkulls DeffKopta 1

Hobby Progress 01/05 - 10/05

What to do for the next hobby progress, I’m not sure. I have boxes of Ork boys, an additional Assault on Black Reach complement or orks, a load of gretchen, and burna boys, 6 more deffkoptas and a couple of looted wagons to choose from, a battlewagon, and a couple of other pieces which will be converted in time but as I am unlikely to be having an apocalypse game in the near future those can wait. So I’m hardly struggling to find something to paint, it will be brilliant to see a fully painted Ork army. I really need to work out how many points I have… hmm.

I should have figured this out before, but it is a great idea. I often use JSFIDDLE to host working versions of my answers to StackOverflow questions or just to demonstrate to people. Recently I came across a tweet

RT @0x6D6172696F: And as a super-secret pre-release, here’s @asintsov‘s @hackpra talk: bit.ly/IGwnLS #hackpra #domino #0day Enjoy

— @ (@garethheyes) May 2, 2012

When it loaded, I thought, when did jsfiddle start hosting videos? but what he has done is a nice wee solution, he has added an embed tag to a jsfiddle entry and added the /show/ parameter to the url so that only that code appears, in turn this displays the video. Class, I will have to remember this in future.

<br><br><embed width="1280" height="720" src="http://www.el.rub.de/robert/RUBcast/
player.swf" bgcolor="undefined" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"
flashvars="file=rubcast/disc2/SoSe12/HackPra/02_HackPra_25.04.2012.mp4&
image=http://www.el.rub.de/robert/RUBcast/
Grauverlauf.png&logo=http://www.el.rub.de/robert/RUBcast/
Funklogo2.png&backcolor=e6e4e4&
frontcolor=003560&lightcolor=94c11c
&screencolor=FFFFFF&
bufferlength=5&streamer=rtmp://video.rubcast.rub.de/vod/" />

I stumbled across these videos today, I know they have been around for a while but I thought it was interesting to listen to, and then the retort by Emily. Personally I like Facebook and I find it to be a great tool to to arrange get together and keep in touch with friends which I might have otherwise lost touch with.

Recently I noticed that if I viewed this site on a different machine There were no styles, and none of the scripts were being run until I logged in, at which point I added an exception for the ssl certificate for the site. This site like many others I would imagine is on shared hosting which means that my hosting provider setup the ssl certificate, which is very nice of them but does have the slight drawback that the certificate does not match my domain, which in nearly every browser will flag up an error message if you try to access it using https. For me this is not really a problem as I know why this happens and I am the only one really adding to this site so I can just ignore it.

However recently as I said above I noticed on machines that did not have an exception fort he ssl certificate, they could not see any of the lovely styling. This was because for some random reason WordPress was automatically adding https instead of http in front of all the stylesheets, and because there is an err with the ssl in this site due to the domains not matching, nobody who was not me could see this site. A problem, yes I think so.

Luckily for me I came across this wonderful website that had the solution to my problem, well at least steered me in the right direction.

• vincentkong.com – Stylesheets in WordPress Referenced with HTTPS.

The Solution was quite simple after a little exploring, just comment out the line which makes it https in /wp-includes/link-template.php

/**
 * Retrieve the url to the content directory.
 *
 * @param string $path Optional. Path relative to the content url.
 * @return string Content url link with optional path appended.
*/
function content_url($path = '') {
	$url = WP_CONTENT_URL;
/*	Comment Out this section
*       if ( 0 === strpos($url, 'http') && is_ssl() )
*	        $url = str_replace( 'http://', 'https://', $url );
*/
	if ( !empty($path) && is_string($path) && strpos($path, '..') === false )
		$url .= '/' . ltrim($path, '/');

	return apply_filters('content_url', $url, $path);
}

The second week of hobby progress, and I managed to get more done than last week, achieving 6 cybork shootas, 1 loota, 1 Nob and Kapttin Badrukk which was fun to paint and I believe came out quite well.

Hobby Progress 2 23/04 - 27/04

Ork Kaptin Badrukk

Ork Kaptin Badrukk

Big Shoota Cybork Deathskull Ork Boy

Cybork Deathskull Ork Boy "Chunky"

Back of Cybork Deathskull Ork Boy "Chunky"

Cybork Deathskull Ork Boy

Cybork Deathskull Ork Boy

Cybork Deathskull Ork Boy

Cybork Deathskull Ork Boy

DeathSkull Ork Loota

Deathskull Ork Nob

For next week’s challenge I have started converting some Deffkoptas.

Went to see The Avengers last night, and it was brilliant!! The Hulk Character particularly funny in parts, doing things we wish were done before… “puny god”. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire movie, though the I thought more could have been done with the character revealed after the credits, if you’ve seen it you know who I’m talking about.

Having head this being done by the crew of the Independent Characters Podcast I thought this would be a good idea to post what I had managed to do every week or 2 weeks, which should help to motivate me to get my Ork Army painted to a standard I would be happy with. Setting a goal should be useful as I can attempt to beat it and with any luck will get all my Orks painted, the primary benefit and problem with Orks is that there are loads of them and I must have in the region of 60+ boyz, 9 defcoptas, and 3+ vehicles that need painted. In fact some of them need to be assembled.

My last 2 Stormboyz

Hobby Progress 1 16/04 - 21/04

An Ammo runt

Bad Moon Warboss with Attack Squig

Deathskull Big Mek with Burna

Above you should be able to see my progress for this week, 3 HQs, 2 Stormboyz, and an Ammo runt.

I recently wanted for the outputs of a search to be configurable easily by an admin by storing a specially crafted string which would use the object returned by the query and only display certain parameters, the key was that different people could see different things. The solution was a specially crafted string containing the entire formatting of the output with sections of interest marked out by brackets.

My first problem was getting the names of all the properties within the object, as I didn’t want to have to change my code if the object changed, or if I one day decided to change the name of one of the object’s properties. I did this after playing around within System.Reflection and after searching for a while I eventually stumbled upon an answer within StackOverflow by one of the users @mythz.

public static PropertyInfo[] GetPublicProperties(this Type type){
	if (type.IsInterface)
	{
		var propertyInfos = new List<PropertyInfo>();

		var considered = new List<Type>();
		var queue = new Queue<Type>();
		considered.Add(type);
		queue.Enqueue(type);
		while (queue.Count > 0)
		{
		    var subType = queue.Dequeue();
		    foreach (var subInterface in subType.GetInterfaces())
		    {
			if (considered.Contains(subInterface)) continue;

			considered.Add(subInterface);
			queue.Enqueue(subInterface);
		    }

		    var typeProperties = subType.GetProperties(
			BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy
			| BindingFlags.Public
			| BindingFlags.Instance);

		    var newPropertyInfos = typeProperties
			.Where(x => !propertyInfos.Contains(x));

		    propertyInfos.InsertRange(0, newPropertyInfos);
		}

		return propertyInfos.ToArray();
	}

	return type.GetProperties(BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy
	| BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
}

Then simply using a little System.Linq code to filter the responses and RegEx to get the sections to be replaced.

// the input format string "format" takes the form of 
// "some text {objectProperty} some more text {another property}"
Dictionary<string, string> formatreplacement = new Dictionary<string, string>();

// a regular expression to grab all the special sections
MatchCollection getParameterMatch = Regex.Matches(format, "\\{.+?\\}");

// use System.Reflection to get fields in application.
PropertyInfo[] info = GetPublicProperties(aa.GetType());

if (getParameterMatch.Count > 0)
{
    // loop through the matches and get what the replacement value is
    foreach (Match m in getParameterMatch)
    {
        // remove the containing brackets
        string value = m.Value.Replace("{", "").Replace("}", "");
        // check to see if the property exists in the PropertyInfo[] using Linq
        if (info.Where(x => x.Name == value).Count() == 1) {
            // if it does exist then add the property value to the dictionary 
            formatreplacement[m.Value] = Convert.ToString(info.Where(x => x.Name == value).ElementAt(0).GetValue(aa, null));
        }
    }
}
// loop through the elements in the Dictionary and 
// Replace the parts of the string with the retrieved value