Links

Links

Below is a collection of links that you may find useful. If you think that there's something else that I should put up here, let me know.

People

  • jerith
    Jerith is probably the most talented programmer and most knowledgable open-source geek that I know. Some of the PHP code on this site is his.
  • rooijan
    Rooijan goes to my church and is one of jerith's friends as well. Unfortunately the content of his site is a little lacking.
  • Edd
    Edd is, well, Edd. He's really clever and organises the local BarCamps as well.
  • KaBaDaBrA
    Chris (KaBaDaBrA) is one of the co-organisers of the Kontrol Alt Elite LANs and one of my best friends. He's a professional web designer, so his site looks quite nice... but it also suffers from a lack of content.
    Update (July 2007) - Content appears to have vanished - just a default domain hosting page there now. I'll retain this link for now, but if it's still like this in a few months time, this link will be removed.
  • neon_chameleon
    Neon is one of the moderators over at the PCFormat forums and is a keen local gamer. I recently found out that he has his own site, so he's getting a link.
  • DAE_JA_VOO
    Ettienne Venter, aka "DAE_JA_VOO", is probably the most talented modder in South Africa at the moment. He's recently launched his own site dedicated to modding, which is more than worthy of a link here. That, and the fact that I contributed to the famous Project Epiphany by donating Ettienne a spare power supply of mine when he fried his original one. :)

LANs

  • FRAG LAN
    This is the LAN that I help out at. If you want to come along, meet me, and play a few games, you should check the site out for all the information.
  • LanGames
    If you want to go to other LANs, this is an excellent place to start looking.

IRC

  • X-Chat
    My IRC client of choice. Strangely, the Windows version is shareware but the source code is released under the GPL, which means that it's perfectly legal to compile your own Windows build. If you're not the "compile it myself" type, you can download a free Win32 build here.
  • UnrealIRCd
    The IRC server that I beta-test, and the most popular IRC server software in use. Both the source code and Win32 build are released under the GPL.
  • ircservices
    An implementation of network services (NickServ, ChanServ, etc) for an IRC network. Just the source code here, Windows is not officially supported. A lot of people were asking for a Windows build, so I did something for them. Which brings us to our next link...
  • IRC Services Community
    Unofficial support forums for ircservices, which I set up in 2004. It's also where you'll find my Windows build of ircservices. I do however recommend that you only use it if you really have no alternative - Linux is so much better.

Programming / Hacking

  • Teach Yourself Programming In Ten Years
    Peter Norvig, Google's Director of Search Quality, wrote this essay. His recipe for programming success is worth close attention.
  • Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
    A letter to the editor of the July 1983 Datamation. Worth reading if you're interested to know what programming was like 25 years ago. Those programmers have a lot of my respect.
  • How To Become A Hacker
    If you ever want to hack on some code, this is a must read. Note that this is not the same as, say, hacking a bank, this is called cracking and the differences between the two are clearly mentioned in this essay.

Troubleshooting

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