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Booty Quest won the TIGA 2018 award for ‘Best Puzzle Game’!

Yesterday, at the TIGA Games Industry Awards Ceremony, Booty Quest, the game I worked on as Lead Programmer throughout its development until its global launch, received the TIGA 2018 award for “Best Puzzle Game”.

It’s really great when the effort that is made to develop a game is finally recognised and rewarded. Congratulations to the entire Booty Quest team!

Outplay : Booty Quest
TIGA : 2018 Winners
TIGA : 2018 Photos
TIGA : Awards Ceremony
gamesindustry.biz : The TIGA Games Industry Awards 2018 winners announced

How to update links in a WordPress database using regular expressions

Recently, while reviewing the database of my blog, I found out that the ‘Broken Link Checker‘ plugin sometimes has troubles finding broken internal links in the database of my WordPress installation.
Fortunately for me the links I needed to update could be updated using regular expressions so, instead of using a plugin like ‘Velvet Blues Update URLs‘, I could fix them using regular expression functions directly in the database. I leave here a short guide and links to help you if you find yourself in a similar situation.
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Azure Meetup at Waracle Dundee

Yesterday I attended the Azure Meetup hosted by Waracle in their offices in Dundee. It was an enjoyable event about Machine Learning that started with pizza, good beer and some time to chat with some Waracle employees. I can’t imagine a better way to start an event 😄
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Apple Event September 2018

Today took place at the Steve Jobs theater in Cupertino the annual event in which Apple usually presents its new model of iPhone. And there were no surprises about that, they unveiled three new iPhone and a new Apple Watch.
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How to set a Static IP on a DD-WRT router

In a previous post I showed you how to set a static local IP on Armbian. However, there are situations where IP address assignment cannot be done on the device itself. This is the case, for example, of many smart devices such as the Yeelight smart lights, where it is not possible to set a static IP address using the manufacturers app. For cases like this, the best option is to configure the static local IP directly on the router. This is done via Static DHCP (also known as DHCPreservation) which is a feature that makes the DHCP server on your router to always assign the same IP address to a specific device on your LAN.

In this post I will show you how to do it on a DD-WRT router assigning a static IP to an Orange Pi Zero without making any changes to the device itself.
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