Truben's Journal

Sigmundvik.com

Truben — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:40:00 +0000

The amazing bass player Sigmund Vik have just released his new website located at sigmundvik.com. It’s developed and designed by me (surprise!). I’ve used jQuery, pushstate(), AJAX, Soundmanager2, CSS gradients and a lot of other cool technologies to build the page. Enjoy!

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Brand new knot.no

D-Box 2.3

Truben — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:38:16 +0000

D-Box 2.3 was released 5 days ago. It’s a quite minor update, but it fixes a few annoying behaviors, and should be a bit snappier than version 2.2.

Check out this page if you want to know what’s happened since the last release.

Click here to download D-Box 2.3.

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Tomcat and JSTL

Truben — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:44:14 +0000

For some strange reason, I went through an awful lot of trouble to find the correct JSTL-jar files for my Tomcat installation. The truth is that it’s dead simple to figure out.

Just navigate to apache-tomcat-{version}/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/lib and copy the two jar-files! Hope this can be of help for someone!

The path to the JSTL jars

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Updated Latex Table Editor

Truben — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:30:43 +0000

Because of the surprisingly big success of my latex table editor, I decided to update it with some nifty new features. The biggest improvement is that it’s now possible to rearrange the rows in the table. Simply drag and drop, using the handles to the left of the rows. I’ve also added a drop down box to set the text alignment in the columns, and updated it with a brand new interface. I hope you’ll find the new version better than the old one, but if you don’t please drop me a line and explain why.

Give it a go!

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Brand new knot.no

Truben — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:12 +0000

Yesterday evening, KNOT, a local workshop and gallery, launched their brand new webpage.

The webpage is based on a design by Higren, and developed by me. The page takes advantage of the superb JavaScript framework jQuery and some brand new HTML5 technologies (CSS transformation, form validation, etc). A jQuery plugin called QuickSand is used to display and rearrange the store items (try to search).

The KNOT page

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Emulators in JavaScript!

Truben — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:35:57 +0000

I have in the recent past been made aware that it’s actually possible to create emulators in pure JavaScript. Along with the “new” canvas-tag, it turns out that the newest and fastest web browsers actually manages to emulate old game-consoles in an impressive manner. Some even with sound!

Here’s a list of some emulators created in JavaScript:

JSGB – Nintendo GameBoy emulator
JSNES – Ninetendo 8bit emulator
JSC64 – Commodore 64 emulator
JSSpeccy – Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Updated: Linux!

Unfortunately these emulators works best in Apple Safari and Google Chrome~~, but they’ll work in Firefox too, only slower.~~ and Firefox 4.

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Brand new Latex Tools page

Brand new Latex Tools page

Truben — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:05:01 +0000

For about six months ago I made a JavaScript program that could help me to produce Bibtex entries. It has now been on truben.no for a while, and I have certainly benefited from it!

Two days ago I started to argue with Latex again, and this time it was because of how latex markup tables. Bacause of this I’ve created yet another javascript program that aims to help users with this issue. Check it out!

Do you have a feature request or other comments? Please leave feedback here!

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Stay away from this game!

Truben — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:09:10 +0000

I can honestly say that I very rarely play “Flash” games on the web. I typically think they’re too simple, and you’re rarely left with the feeling to have accomplished anything afterwards. This game is no exception. The problem with that is that it has managed to lure me to play it over and over again. 316 times to be exact.

I lost two hours of my life. If you don|t want to suffer the same fate as me, I advise you to stay away. Can you do it? Not? Thought so!

(Click on the image above to start the game)

Here’s what I accomplished:

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How to run Windows 3.1x in Dosbox using D-Box

How to run Windows 3.1x in Dosbox using D-Box

Truben — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:54:24 +0000

Today I tried to run good ol’ Windows 3.1x using D-Box. I was impressed by how easy it was to get it running! So please feel free to follow along this set by step instructions!

Get D-Box and Windows 3.1x.
If you have the diskettes for Windows, copy all the files to a directory on your hard drive. If you’ve downloaded a ISO file, extract the files to a directory on your hard drive (MacOS and most Linux distros have built-in support for ISO, just double-click on the icon, and drag the contents into a folder on you hard drive. Windows users can use WinRAR.)
Start D-Box, and drag the file Setup.exe from the Windows directory to D-Box’ application list. Click the OK button a few times.
Select the newly created item in the application list in D-Box with your mouse, and right click on it to get a pop up menu. From this menu click on “Edit Game”. In the new window, drag the slider under “How fast would you like the computer” as far right as it gets. Click OK.
Double click on the Windows application item in D-Box’ application list. Follow the setup’s installation steps. The defaults are good. Do not try to change the screen resolution. Leave it at VGA. Don’t bother with the network settings either.
When the installation is finished close the Dosbox window and return to D-Box. Once again, get the Edit game window (same procedure as in step 4), and change the text in the field Executable to:
```
WINDOWS\WIN.COM
```
and click OK.
Now you may use Windows 3.1x on your new super computer, and play, not only DOS games, but also 16bit Windows games! To add a new Windows game, just copy the files to the folder where you left the Windows 3.1x installation files.

Update: Do you want sound or better graphics?

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D-Box 2.2

Truben — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:50:39 +0000

After 3 months of work I’ve released D-Box 2.2. It’s a quite large update, although the versioning doesn’t indicate it. Check out what’s new here, and grab your own copy here. It’s possible to skin D-Box 2.2, so it’s possible to get the old D-Box 2.1 look back if it’s more your cup of tea.

D-Box 2.2

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