Veril and Pass Brain
I have 2 announcements for you all tonight.
First is my map of Veril. Veril is the world in which I play DnD using IRC. Their map was lackluster at best. It was hard to read and not very enticing so I decided to make my own. Cartography, while I couldn’t do it for a job, is really cool. The amount of detail and creativity that goes into maps is quite extraordinary. It’s a world on paper. A single sheet of paper. So I present to you, my first attempt at a map for the World of Veril (5mb). If you don’t have fast internet, check out this version that’s only 1.5mb.
Second, is Pass Brain. I’ve been learning PHP recently, and I needed a project. First I made an application that shows the status of employees at a workplace. I made it for my job at Mac Pac. They’re still using it and it’s always encouraging when people use your software. So I made another app. It’s called Pass Brain. I got the idea from Domain Brain. If the owner of this application is concerned about copyright issues or something, please contact me.
Pass Brain, is a username and password storage application. Basically, you enter a URL, Username and Password and it saves it so you can access it from your web server wherever you are. I made a really clean interface for it and some security features. Mostly, because this will be used in public places where you don’t have your automatic logins all set up, the username and, even more so, the password are at low contrast so that people looking over your shoulder would have to be very close to the screen to read the text. Also you have to click on the URL so it will display the username and password in the first place.
I have made a public demo for anyone to try. (Keep in mind that ANYONE can see this so don’t put anything real on. It’s just for testing.) If you have access to a web server with a mysql database and php, I’ll be happy to give you a copy. I’m not particularly comfortable with storing someone else’s passwords on my server purely because of security issues.
On a personal note, we went mini golfing today at work. It was a lot of fun. I’m ok at mini golf but not that great. Somewhere around a 54 for 18 holes. The place also had video games, food and racing of the slick track, paved track, grand prix and drag variety. I did not partake in the racing. Also, my boss is a pretty amazing dude. I can’t get an artist past him, past or present. Driving down the LA freeway, he turns on nothing else but Joanna Newsom’s Ys. Amazing.
That’s all for now. Until next time.