A few months ago, Alexander “alech” Klink and Julian “zeri” Wälde presented a report on how most web programming languages use hash tables to store data efficiently, and how this can be abused to force web applications to 99% CPU usage for several minutes with merely one request. The report highlights how in order to minimise hash collisions in the...

I never liked writing up a blog post and clocking preview post, only to find that the post appeared totally different once the site theme has been applied. Thankfully, there’s a fairly simple fix that will make the visual editor show text very close to the format that will be applied on the main page. Firstly, find out what your theme’s main...

Just posting to let everyone know that I will not be online very much at all for the next few weeks as I am visiting my family for Christmas. I hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I was recently looking for a nice graphing plugin to create some monthly charts for on the homepage of the Donations Xtreme admin panel, instead of the messy overview that it currently uses. While all of the plugins that I found created charts, they just didn’t have the nice feel that I was after. I then found jqPlot, which instantly sat above the rest....

Hi everyone, welcome to the start of a series of posts on development for the open source CMS Evolution Xtreme. This series is going to go through the basics of creating modules, starting at basic folder structure and going right through to user interaction and submissions. While you will hopefully learn something from going through my code examples, where you...

I have been waiting for this game to be released for a little over a year now, since I saw it on the front cover of Atomic magazine. And I have to say, it has definitely been worth the wait. Even though it was released in 2000, last week, I would have still said that my absolute No. 1 favourite campaign was in the original Deus Ex game. But as of Thursday, that...

It is often easier when creating something pretty much from scratch to use some form of templating system rather than mixing layout and logic. It just makes things easier to work with. Several packages exist, such as Smarty, but why add so much bloat and slow down your code in order to do so? Additional syntax has to be parsed, which costs time. PHP will...

I have a little bit of a dilemma, so I’m just gonna put it out in the open and see if anyone has anything to say about it. I’ll admit it, I don’t know very much about HTML5 or CSS3. I still naturally code in XHTML, but after seeing SgtLegend put together both the Mobile Mod and BB3 to Xtreme converter themes so simply and quickly using these...