Several years ago, a client asked me to come up with a prototype for a real-money online poker bot. That’s right: a piece of software you park on your computer while it goes out to a site like PokerStars or Full Tilt and plays no-limit Holdem for you, at 4 or 14 different tables, for real-money stakes.
If you’re a poker player, and particularly if you’re an online poker player, you’ve probably heard rumors about the rise of the poker bots. Unfortunately there’s very little hard information out there (for obvious reasons) about how to build one of these bots. In fact, many so-called authorities still dismiss poker bots as a relic of the overactive poker player’s imagination.
This article will show you how to build your own poker bot.
Link: Coding The Wheel
Similar to TinyURL, a short URL service can be created in minutes with Shorty. Shorty is a PHP script for creating shorter, human readable links from long URLs.
A reason to prefer using Shorty for personal use rather than TinyURL or similar services may be eliminating the risk of these services becoming offline and losing your links, as you can use this free short URL script forever.
Shorty has an admin interface where links can be organized and clicking statistics can be viewed. You can even have a RSS for your links.
Link: Web Resources Depot
XML, XLink, Namespace, DTD, Schema, CSS, XHTML … If you are new to XML, it may be hard to know where to begin. This summary in 10 points attempts to capture enough of the basic concepts to enable a beginner to see the forest through the trees. And if you are giving a presentation on XML, why not start with these 10 points?
Link: W3
Open Source Living is a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS) spanning all major platforms, inclusive of small to large scale projects. It aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to corporate, closed source software.
Link: Open Source Living