1Apr
2012

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Reckoning is the first game in the new Kingdoms of Amalur action RPG franchise. In a gaming market awash with sequels it’s great to kick off 2012 with a fresh title, especially with the promises made by Big Huge Games. Despite being a new game it talks the talk, bring with it a pedigree production team featuring Tom McFarlane (Spawn) and Ken Rolston (Morrowind, Oblivion). Combined with a plot waved by New York Times Bestseller, R.A. Salvatore, the game has [...]

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21Feb
2012

Games for Trade

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I’m looking to trade a few games. If you’d like anything on the list please get in touch and suggest the game you would like to trade for it. I’m also open to suggestions of games I might like. My Games Deus Ex: Human Revolution (360) Gears of War 3 Limited Edition (360) Red Dead Redemption (360) Dungeon Siege 3 (360) Hunted: The Demon’s Forge (360) Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (360) Dragon Age 2 (360) Call of Duty: Black Ops (360) Rage (360) Red Faction: [...]

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2011-12-14

Procmail – rebuild mailquota for virtual domains

Hello If you use Postfix for your mail server, but deliver the actual mail through Procmail, you might notice that quotas stop working properly. This is because if you use Procmail then Postfix itself is no longer responsible for creating the actual directories on the filesystem, nor is it responsible for keeping track of how many emails are on the server. Therefore, by default, quotas will not be recorded. You can manually recreate the quotas using the following command on [...]

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2011-12-01

Secure PHP forms (the easy way)

I’m running a straight forward contact form on my worky website, danieldavies.co.uk. In the year or so the site has been running it has received exactly 0 spam message through it, so I’m just going to explain the really simply method I use to “secure” this form, and any other PHP form I work with. First, a disclaimer. This isn’t the best or only way to secure a form. What it is is a real simple way to implement a [...]

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2011-12-01

Automatic Slug Generator

Any object that can be “browsed” to in a Django application needs a friendly URL. Whether it be a blog post, a calendar entry, and event or a user’s profile, referring to them by their ID or Primary Key is not going to help search engines find you. Although Django provides an excellent Slug field type, and the admin site can automatically populate the slug field, it falls short on two fronts. First, it doesn’t create a slug for user created objects. [...]

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2011-11-22

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Uncharted 3 is a third person action game developed by Naughty Dog and is one of the Playstation 3′s biggest exclusives. The franchise follows Nathan Drake, a treasure hunter and loveable rogue, as he travels the world searching for treasure and generally pissing off some of the badest people in the criminal underground. If you’ve not played the first two, imagine Indiana Jones meets the Italian Job. In this episode Drake is hunting for the secret, lost treasure of his [...]

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2011-11-18

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Skyrim needs no introduction… … but perhaps this review does. Skyrim, as big a game as it is, cannot be given a numerical value. Nor can any one review ever hope to cover every aspect the game. These are the humble musings of an addict. Someone who clocked up 35 hours of gameplay in the first 3 days after release. The results are recorded here; my subjective experience, divided in to the main categories of things that mattered to me. [...]

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2011-11-01

Protected: Life Update: November 2011

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2011-10-25

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, from Namco Bandai, is a fast paced action shooter set in the sky. It’s available on both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and having played both versions, there’s not really much difference (PS3 controls are slightly more responsive I felt, though). With a best selling author providing the storyline and host of new features designed to get your adrenaline pumping, this title is sure to be a hit with fly boys the world over. Although it’s [...]

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2011-09-25

Eurogamer Expo 2011

Eurogamer Expo 2011

I was delighted to attend Eurogamer Expo is London last weekend. I’d been given a press pass by someone I won’t name, just in case they weren’t technically supposed to give it to me… but none the less I did like the press and took photos.

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