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WowPlot 0.2.4 (supporting 4.2 Combat Logs)

Here’s an update to WowPlot that supports Patch 4.2 Combat Logs with extended actor flags. A further update with Lion-specific features (fullscreen, auto-saving, …) is in the works as well.

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Obituary (WoW addon, Patch 4.2 compatible)

Here’s a another version of Obituary (which I have labelled 1.0.6) updated to work with World of Warcraft Patch 4.2 (“Firelands”) from Timewasted’s version on WoWInterface. It is not the same as the addon of the same name found on … Continue reading

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Obituary (WoW addon, Patch 4.1 compatible)

Here’s a version of Obituary (which I have labelled 1.0.5) updated to work with World of Warcraft Patch 4.1 from Timewasted’s version on WoWInterface. It is not the same as the addon of the same name found on Curse, but … Continue reading

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Dear iPhone Developer

I’m sure all your existing customers really appreciate the incremental upgrades and new features you’ve integrated into your app over time. What started out as a simple thing is now a veritable feature-fortress. But please, keep in mind the new-user-experience, … Continue reading

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WowPlot 0.2.0 (for WoW 4.0.1)

I had some itching coding fingers again and thus added support for the new World of Warcraft Patch 4.0.1 changes to WowPlot. As usual, the direct download is here and the source is over at bitbucket. If a log from … Continue reading

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bitbucket

I finally got around to a) updating my old WordPress-installation (after finding out spam-bots had already created custom folders on my installation) and b) uploading all my public code to bitbucket (as Mercurial repositories). That includes my wavelet image compression … Continue reading

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Joe Abercrombie – Best Served Cold

It’s as enjoyable as the “First Law” trilogy; he stills has that fascination for broken / crippled characters (but as every reviewer mentioned them it’s only natural he sticks to what’s been working) — and unsurprisingly this book is quite … Continue reading

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Solid-State Drives and You

While solid-state drives (SSDs) seem to be all the rage in net-/laptops at the moment, most of their advantages (mostly negligible access times) also make sense for a desktop system, whereas their disadvantages (price / small size) are not as … Continue reading

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WowPlot 0.1.3 – “Echoes of Doom”

WowPlot has been updated to version 0.1.3, featuring support for the new 3.0.2 combat log events (and subsequently removing support for 2.4.3 ones). Only tested with a single Kara log, so please get in touch if you’re having trouble with … Continue reading

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Apple’s MobileMe and timed-out IMAP servers

As I was trying to clear out the folders of the mailing lists I’m subscribed to on my mail account (Apple’s MobileMe, née .Mac), I ran into a bit of a problem: I couldn’t delete any messages from some of … Continue reading

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WowPlot 0.1.1

WowPlot has been updated to version 0.1.1, featuring the following improvements: loading / saving of plots more speed (back-end is now multi-threaded using NSOperation) Sparkle auto-updating better parsing some error-messages more consistent splitting

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Announcing WowPlot

WowPlot is a graphical analysis tool for World of Warcraft® combat logs (compatible only with the new combat log format introduced in version 2.4). Its main focus lies in evaluating time-dependant combat performance in a very free-form fashion, which is … Continue reading

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