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AresDB Splash Website
2009-10-26 22:11:14

My latest project is the AresDB website. AresDB is a open source World of Warcraft private server database project now lead by my dear friend Bandit and some other guy called Jenkins, I believe.

Bandit asked me to make a so-called (according to him) "splash page."

I made my first template out of a bunch of grunge brushes. Unfortunately it didn't turn out very well in the end so I started over again from scratch, this time using using vector brushes.

I'm pretty satisfied with the result, being the first splash page I've done (actually the second). I'd actually like to make more in the future.

The final result can be found at the AresDB website.

Images coming soon

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Designer Chateau: Web Designing Blog
2009-10-26 19:45:05

I've decided that I'll be using this website as a blog for my design projects. Mostly they'll be web designs, problems, workarounds - but probably also some music projects. Everything on this website has been designed by me (unless stated otherwise).

I'll most likely never get any readers, but I don't really care. :P

Expect a new post very soon.

Update: I've imported some of the updated article code. It's a little glitchy but I've commented out most of it, since it isn't necessary for me at the moment anyway.

Update: Everything should be work now. :) I found out what was causing all the problems.

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A World of Warcraft Private Server
2009-09-22 19:28:41

Me and Bandit are working on creating a World of Warcraft private server on the old PowerMac that I talked about in an earlier article.

The private server will have support for both The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions. We'll be using the popular Arcemu with the NCDB database and extract map files from one of our WoW installations.

We're hoping that the server will be up and working and fully function within the next few weeks or so.

Stay tuned!

Side note: We're not sure if it's gonna be a fun server or Blizz-like, or we might just make one of each.

Update: Unfortunately we can't run the World of Warcraft server on the Bluebox machine (PowerMac) since Arcemu won't compile under PowerPC. So we're doing it on the main server (Chateau) instead.

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An Additional Server
2009-09-16 21:21:07

I found a 10 year old PowerMac G3 that nobody's been using for ages (obviously). I've crammed it with a bunch of RAM which totals to 640 MB RAM (overkill 10 years ago.)

I'm having a few problems installing Ubuntu SE (9.04) on it but I've asked my good ol' friend Bandit to help me solve them.

I'm also still not sure what to put on it, but I'll come up with something.

Update: I finally decided to try installing Ubuntu 8 (which is what this server is running) and everything worked! It was probably a stupid Ubuntu 9 bug....

Update: So I had unplugged the computer to move it to a better place. But when I had plugged it back in, it didn't boot. I finally came to the conclusion that it was the main power button that was kind of broken. Good thing I found a tiny backup power button on the motherboard!

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Another Website (plus design)
2009-09-14 19:53:50

I was bored so I thought I'd start yet another website. This one of course with a new layout.

I won't be abandoning this one (it's the best website I've ever made), so don't worry. The new website will be called Programmer Chateau. However I'm still not finished with the the design yet (need to add more colors and do some final polishing to make everything look perfect) and after that I still have all the markup coding to do.

Most of the website interactivity will probably be ported from this website, luckily (since that's the most difficult part).

P.S. I'm also exploring RSS and eventually implement it to the website (for the articles and blogs).

Update: I deleted the old lorum ipsum articles, since we don't need them anymore (because we have so many real articles now).

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