…and here’s the code if you need it (normally I would not use in-line styles but that’s what I have done for this example):

<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="10" summary="CSS list types">
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td><ul style="list-style-type: circle;">
					<li>Type: circle</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ul></td>
			<td><ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
					<li>Type: disc</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ul></td>
			<td><ul style="list-style-type: square;">
					<li>Type: square</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ul></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: armenian;">
					<li>Type: armenian</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: cjk-ideographic;">
					<li>Type: cjk-ideographic</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: decimal;">
					<li>Type: decimal</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: decimal-leading-zero;">
					<li>Type: decimal-leading-zero</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: georgian;">
					<li>Type: georgian</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: hebrew;">
					<li>Type: hebrew</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: hiragana;">
					<li>Type: hiragana</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: hiragana-iroha;">
					<li>Type: hiragana-iroha</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: katakana;">
					<li>Type: katakana</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: katagana-iroha;">
					<li>Type: katakana-iroha</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
					<li>Type: lower-alpha</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: lower-greek;">
					<li>Type: lower-greek</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;">
					<li>Type: lower-latin</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: lower-roman;">
					<li>Type: lower-roman</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: upper-alpha;">
					<li>Type: upper-alpha</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: upper-latin;">
					<li>Type: upper-latin</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: upper-roman;">
					<li>Type: upper-roman</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: none;">
					<li>Type: none</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><ol style="list-style-type: inherit;">
					<li>Type: inherit</li>
					<li>Item 1</li>
					<li>Item 2</li>
				</ol></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

Xbox:

• Deus Ex
• Enslaved
• Dead Island

PS3:

• God of War 3
• Homefront

Should keep me busy for a while – Still need to finish Heavy Rain and Dead Space 2, wish I had more time!

Screenshot

Having played this game previously on PC and more recently the Mac, I found out that this was now available on Xbox Live Arcade as a download (also available on other platforms). So I decided to get it for 800 MS points which I thought was fairly reasonable.

Nexuiz does look gorgeous and I have to say I love the sort of “Dub Step” style background music. Currently it’s a guest on the XBLA House Party section and regarding graphics, makes very good use of the CryEngine 3, well done IllFonic!

Problems I’ve experienced so far:

• Waiting for other players to fill up the available player slots (6 in total)
• Collision detection could do with some looking at – I’m sure I’ve pumped several rockets into someone’s torso and they simply kill me with one shotgun blast.
• No dedicated servers! – Using one of the players as a host can be a painful experience when they decide to quite mid match – the match simply ends and you get disconnected. However, there have been a few times when host migration has made attempts to use another players connection.

I really do want this game to do well as I feel it deserves good recognition and definitely a place in peoples game libraries. As with most new on-line games, hopefully some of these initial teething problems will be ironed out with patches.

Related Links

• Nexuiz: http://www.nexuiz.com/
• IllFonic: http://www.illfonic.com/
• THQ: http://www.thq.com/
• Alientrap: http://www.alientrap.org/
• Crytek: http://mycryengine.com/

I tried various things like CONVERT…. and CAST…AS datetime, but for whatever reason I could not get this to work.

I got round this by doing some string concatenation:

SELECT * FROM tbl_articles
WHERE visible = 1
ORDER BY RIGHT(dateval,4)+SUBSTRING(dateval, 4, 2)+LEFT(dateval,2) ASC

The date was stored in the table as text like 22/10/2011, the above concatenating turns it into 20111022 which can easily be sorted in the proper order.

I know this is more than likely not the best way of doing it and should have persevered with the casts and converts but it works fine for the minimal amount of data I have in that table. No doubt I’ll have to revisit this if the number of records significantly increases.

The trouble was that whenever I applied an update to the theme, it obviously overwrote my modified style.css. I suppose if I wasn’t lazy I could have copied the theme to a new folder and simply used the copied theme. Although I do like getting updates including any improvement tweaks etc.

To get round this I found a great plugin called Style Press which was made by grandslambert who has also produced some other handy plugins. So I installed it, added my custom css, reverted the style.css back to the original version, and it worked perfectly. So in future whenever I apply a new update to this theme, unless class or id names change, the site will always look the same because the extra bit of css is always added at the end of all the other style includes in the html.

I know I can use the “Character Map” application under Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>

I found the ü symbol and it said the keystroke was Alt+0252. Well I tried this using the number keys along the top of my keyboard and it didn’t work. So I ended up just selecting what I needed and copying it etc. Since then I found out that if I took numlock off and used that number keypad it works fine.

Aparently on the Mac if you press Alt+u and then typing the following letter; a, u, or o. When the letter is pressed it will display the unlauts over the top as they should be.

Here’s a table of ALT codes for letters with accents:

ˆ = Control key

If you see a 10, this can be replaced by any number

The problem I faced was that only the course ID was being passed to the thankyou page so in the emails that are generated, it displays Course Details: 7 , instead of Course Details: 12/12/2011 PHP Basics.

So my initial thought was to create a hidden field just before the end form tag together with some javascript that gets the relevant label value:

document.getElementById('coursedetails').value = document.getElementById('training_id')[document.getElementById('training_id').selectedIndex].innerHTML;

Then in the thankyou page I just got Request.Form(“coursedetails”), this is in ASP VBScript just in case you were wondering. Works like a charm.

Since doing this is I should have done it a much easier way and not have to rely on JavaScript being enabled. I already had the value because I was already using it to display the dropdown list label. So the hidden field could have just contained the default value of the currently selected item.

Anyway just form future reference here’s the SQL I used:

SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM dbo.tbl_MailList_Items
WHERE item_id < (SELECT MAX(item_id) FROM dbo.tbl_MailList_Items)
ORDER BY item_id DESC

This works perfectly for my situation and doesnt rely on just subtracting 1 from the id column because my id column is not fully incremental due to records being deleted etc.