YAEC is an abbreviation and stands for "Yet Another Evil Clickbot". Nevermind the word "Evil", it does not suggest anything except for the fact, that you can do some pretty "mean" things with YAEC. How mean? For instance, you can cheat in browser based games with the help of this nifty application. I developed this small application in a quite short period of time and due to boredom and because of the "SpeedClick" Application on Facebook.

What actually is YAEC? 

YAEC is a clickbot. This means it is an application that will fetch your mouse cursor (just as if it was magic!), move it to a specified position on your screen and will simulate mouse clicks, just as if you clicked by yourself, but YAEC does that automatically. In YAEC, you cannot only specifiy the position you want the cursor to move to and perform the clicks, but also the delay between each simulated click, the duration of time you want the clickbot to run and also the delay before it starts moving to the specified position and before it starts clicking.

YAEC is very self-explanatory. For instance, you can just press the "Sample"-button and some sample data will be inserted for you. Using the "How To"-button, YAEC will tell you a hint how to analyze the x and y position on your screen where you want the clickbot to perform clicks. 

When is it useful? 

Just too mention a very light example: Imagine you want to play a JavaScript based Game in your browser where you have to prove how many clicks you can do within a certain period of time. Then you could just let YAEC do the work for you. It will click automatically, and if you specified the value of 0 for the delay between each click, YAEC will click extremely fast.

Download 

YAEC 0.2 Win32

YAEC 0.2 Win64

Immer wieder werde ich mit Computer-Problemen konfrontiert. Und genaugenommen ist die Sache, dass es ständig Problem gibt, doch das Spannende an der Computertechnik. Manchmal ist das Problem beziehungsweise die Situation aber schon sehr unterhaltsam. So war es auf jeden Fall neulich wieder, als ich einem verzweifelten PC-Nutzer helfen durfte:

Egal welchen Browser man unter Windows XP öffnete, es wurde immer der Internet Explorer gestartet. Dabei waren weder die Verknüpfungen falsch, noch bei der Installation der anderen Browser etwas schief gelaufen. Die Lösung war wesentlich trivialer, aber dennoch irrsinnig:

Blyawon, Pront0, Sallewasgeht, Hobil und ich haben einen Blog gelauncht: Derwebblog.de. Der Blog ist sehr vielseitig und deckt zahlreiche Themenbereiche ab. Wir schreiben überwiegend Artikel über Webprogrammierung beziehungsweise Webentwicklung und Design, bloggen aber auch aktuelle Webnews, Nachrichten aus der Politik und aus der Gesellschaft.

Als erfahrene Internet-Kenner bemühen wir uns täglich darum die aktuellsten Nachrichten aus den oben genannten Themenbereichen in knapper, verständlicher Form zu formulieren. Auch schrecken wir nicht vor Tutorials und Anleitungen zurück, die auf “Computerkenner” zugeschnitten sind. Aufgrund der Vielzahl an Teilnehmern dieses Gemeinschaftsprojekts deckt jeder “Blogger” seine Kompetenzbereiche ab und bereichert damit das Internet um hoffentlich nützliche Informationen.

Die offizielle Website http://cbaur.de meines Unternehmens "Christoph Baur Software-Entwicklung und IT-Dienstleistungen" ist nun vollständig. Dort präsentiere ich meine Angebote beziehungsweise meine Dienstleistungen, als da wären:

• Webentwicklung mit Design, Umsetzung von Designs, CMS-Lösungen (Joomla und Wordpress) und Entwicklung von individuellen Webanwendungen
• Mac OS X-Programmierung, iPhone-Programmierung/iPod Touch-Programmierung und iPad-Programmierung
• PC-Programmierung auf Basis des .net-Frameworks mit C# oder Java
• PC-Reperaturen in der näheren Umgebung
• Beratung bei computertechnischen Fragen

In den letzten Tagen habe ich alle Seiteninhalte vervollständigt und Referenzen beziehungsweise Portfolios veröffentlicht, wo sinnvolle vorhanden. Jetzt ist die Seite vollständig fertiggestellt, es kann nun darin "gestöbert" werden. Wer Webseiten, Anwendungen für Apple-Plattformen und für den PC braucht, der ist bei mir an der richtigen Adresse.

Schaut doch einfach mal vorbei auf http://cbaur.de und informiert euch ein wenig, falls ihr Interesse habt.

Kleine Anmerkung: Aktuell nehme ich keine weiteren größere Aufträge entgegen, da ich zur Zeit stark ausgelastet bin, was Projekte betrifft! 

Besides all my current projects I decided to take care of Bumuckl.com in terms of unity and web standard. I thought it was time to get cracking to get a new floor finish for my website. You might not think that there have been any major changes, and you're probably right. It still looks kind of the same. But, indeed, it took me 5 days with 6 hours of struggling around everyday to redevelop the whole template in a clean way with neat CSS, to remove bad components and to adapt all the components views. On the whole, it was a pretty exhausting work to optimize Bumuckl.com. And now, as it is done (one might think so), I really do feel happy. But be aware, this is not finished yet. I still will have to remove old CSS classes and to shift the current way of implementing graphics to CSS sprites. 

What? Web 2.0? Where is it?! 

Yep, it is there. I am now aiming at using this website rather as a Weblog than as a puffy website with tons of messy content. So I switched all the section and category list-views to blog-views and tried to give the comments-function a neat look. Provisorily I removed the "Lua Wikis" menu item because i would have never finished to translate the whole PGELua Wiki. If you need help, just use the forums. If you need any functions regarding PGELua, go to luaplayer.org.

That's all I've got to say. Have fun and, hopefully, I could teach you in some way.

"Presheet" is just a single .css-file for styling websites and contains presets, as the name PREsheet says. To be more precise, first several standard browser settings are reset and then new basic styles are allocated. Furthermore there are lots of predefined classes and IDs that will help you in your task of creating a new webdesign. I assume that you'll never again have to struggle with complex div-boxes and floating, as there are simple but powerful classes implemented that will work out properly for you. The Presheet file might be small and simple, but it implements a very nice and handy system. I am not sure how far webdevelopers do like the "system", but I am sure that it is an effective way to create xhtml strict websites in no time in a very comfortable way. And with xhtml strict I really do mean xhtml strict!

I assume not to compare it to real CSS-Frameworks like YAML, Blueprints or 960grid, because it surely ain't a CSS Framework. It is a useful preset. 

Learn more at library.bumuckl.com: http://library.bumuckl.com/?view=presheet 

Download: Presheet 0.1 

Ok, zugegeben, der alte Hoster, den ich für mein Webhosting hatte, war spitze (http://www.xenonserver.de), aber irgendwann steigen die Ansprüche. So war es bei mir zumindest: Ich wollte mehr. Darum habe ich mich kurzerhand dazu entschlossen, bei hosteurope.de einen VServer zu ordern. Deshalb war die Site gestern auch für einige Stunden nicht erreichbar, denn ich habe die komplette Site mit Datenbank auf den neuen Server umziehen müssen. In den nächsten Tagen geschieht dann das selbe mit allen Subdomains, parabella.org und dumpspot.net.

Danach ist die Sache allerdings noch nicht gegessen, die Domains müssen alle noch transferiert werden. Daher kann es in den nächsten Tagen nochmal zu einem Ausfall der Website kommen. Ich bin selber gespannt, wie die Sache verläuft! 

...just for fun! 

frozen sniper, the creator and admin of the prestigious Uber Sniper Clan (former known as the "Elite Sniper League") had the idea, to open up more such clans as there could be similar clans for other classes in TF2 (for example Scout and Spy). In correspondence to those clan we came up with the idea to start a Gaming Community called UGC- Uber gaming Community. At the moment there is only a special group on Steam where we are trying to collect members and increase the groups size. As soon as we think it makes sense, we'll also launch a special website. But first of all, we need a huge amount of members. We started two days ago, let's see if it will work out for the community!

As we wrote on the Steam-group: "When you take a look at this page, you might think that we are just an ordinary community that offers servers for people to play on...but we are not. In fact, Uber Gaming Community is a "clan community" that offers several kinds of clans to you. All these clans are supposed to be "Prestige-Clans", or you might also say "Skill-Clans". That means you will only be able to get into the clan of your choice, if you can fulfill the requirements and succeed in a test-match. Help us to make this community bigger by joining this group and applying for the membership in one of our Uber Gaming Clans. Invite all of your friends! The more members this community has, the more this community will do for you. We are aiming at getting our own servers once we've got enough members and, of course, to establish new clans!

Uber Gaming Clans available at the moment:

USC - Uber Snipers Clan (former known as ESL - Elite Sniper League)

Clans to come when this community counts more members:

USpC - Uber Spies Clan (at least 200 members required)
UScC - Uber Scouts Clan (at least 400 members required)

Being a member of this community also gives you the permission to show your membership by adding the tag "UGC" to your nickname. Members of any Skill-Clan might also want to add their respective clantag (USC, USpC, and so on). We also offer a Forum for the members of the Uber Snipers Clan. Once we've got enough members, UGC will also get a professional website with Forums for all members! Stay tuned, invite your friends, have fun!

Current Uber Snipers Clan Forums: http://www.uscclan.tk"

Let's see if it will succeed. Anyways, it is just a fun-thing. Breaking the 1000-members checkpoint would be awesome though! And, of course, feel free to join :D 

Das Jahr 2009 ging zu Ende und ein neues Jahr bricht an! 2010 bringt neue Chancen, neue Erfahrungen und hoffentlich auch neue Projekte mit sich! Ich persönlich habe mir einiges an Projekten vorgenommen:

• PGELua for Windows
• Webprojekt "Marksman" 
• irgendwie in die Anwendungsentwicklung für Mac einsteigen (dazu braucht man aber eben einen Mac)

Ich wünsche euch allen auf jeden Fall ein frohes neues Jahr und hoffe, dass auch ihr alle wieder tolle Sachen auf die Beine stellt!

English: Google was so very kind to send out a lot of new invite-waves that give its recipient the ability to invite more people to Google Wave. I myself received 16 invites that I might forward to other people. You can be one of those people! Since I've got so many invites left, just respond to this news (that means you have to write a comment). Don't forget: you have to be registered with your valid email-address since I am going to send these invites to the email-addresses stored in my database!

Deutsch: Google hat vor kurzem jede Menge neue Invite-Waves versendet, die ihrem Empfänger ermöglichen, neue Leute zu Google Wave einzuladen. Ich persönlich habe 16 Invites bekommen, die ich nun auch gerne weitergeben würde. Du kannst einer von diesen glücklichen Leuten sein! Um dich für einen Invite zu bewerben brauchst du nur einen Kommentar ("write a comment") auf diese News verfassen. Achtung: Du musst registriert sein und eine korrekte Email-Adresse angegeben haben, denn ich werde die Invites an die in meiner Datenbank gespeicherten Email-Adressen senden!

I have 7 5 Google Wave invitations left, and of course I cannot just let them be. I am certain there are people around who really need a Google Wave invite. And especially those people should have the chance to get one, so I dedided to start a small "competition":

In order to get one of those seven invites, you have to register at bumuckl.com (There is OpenID and Google Account support, that means you might sign in immediately). Then just login and move to the Forums where you navigate to Webdevelopment->Other category. Open up the Topic "Google Wave invitations application" and reply to it.

What to write? The actual competition is to write your ideas for robots and gadgets. The best ideas will be rewarded with a Google Wave invite. Don't be shy, I won't steal any of your ideas. It is just to see how much you tinker with Google Wave and how important an invitation is for you. If you do not want to post your ideas publicly, then you can also just write a personal message to me (bumuckl). Go to the Topic here:

Bumuckl.com Forum: Webdevelopment: Other: Google Wave invitation application 

No matter if Google Wave is still not even in beta-phase, it has already been possible to develop extensions and addons. In general Google Wave differentiates between Robots and Gadgets. One on its own or both put together form a so called Google Wave extension. To be more precisely, a Robot is an application that runs on an external server (at the moment only on appspot.com) and works as a participant of a Wave (therefore you have to add a robot to your contacts list). In contrast to the Robot, a Gadget runs on the client and has to be installed. 

Since Google Wave offers a wide range of innovative project development, I'd like to introduce you into the Google Wave Robots. Instead of a huge tutorial on how to create one, I just want to give you a fully working Testrobot. As Google suggests, it's a real Eclipse IDE project. Make sure you've got a Google Wave account, Eclipse IDE + Java ee Package and Google Wave SDK addons installed.

A huge tutorial on how to set up all this stuff and creating your first robot will follow!

Download: Google wave Testrobot 

Finally, my Google Wave invite has arrived in my email inbox this morning. And of course I could not wait and accepted the invite immediately. My first impression of Google Wave was: WOW! There are loads of videos around the web that show Google Wave in detail, but to really recognize the power of this revolutionary project you need to figure it out on your own. Especially the possibilities to create Google Wave extensions might offer a great chance for everybody to earn some money and gain financial advantages!

So far, does it work, is it stable? Google themselves states, that Wave is still not even in beta state and it indeed is unstable. Well, I have not noticed any bugs yet (within those 30 minutes of discovering and testing Google Wave). Unfortunately, controlling Google Wave seems not to be that easy. But as always, you need to get used to things, and so do you in case of Google Wave.

Google Wave can be executed in browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Unfortunately Opera cannot run Google Wave properly, as soon as you launch it, you will be presented an error message (at startup of Google wave you are also told about the incompatibility to Opera). Just to mention a few details about Google Wave: At the moment you cannot remove any participants you recently added to a Wave (this is still to come, I guess). Extensions are already available in form of Gadgets and Robots and a combination of both. I assume there are about 3500 Google Wave developers around that work on their own extensions. This is gonna be so BIG! 

I decided to take care of my webapplication "Codebase" one more time. There have been a lot of things that I suggested not to be that good. One basi thing was the design, it was really awful. So I took the time to create an absolutely new one! I also recognized that Codebase does not just have to be a code collaboration website, it had to be more than that. That's why I also implemented some math tools, and I think I will implement even more than that. You might want to set up CodebaseR3 on your webspace as well, so you can read some installation instructions and more detailed information in the respective article under "My Projects" - "Webapplications" - "Codebase". All in all, Codebase R3 has changed extremely in comparison to Codebase R2:

• - the built in editor allows to insert tabs by hitting the tabulator button
• - PHP code is now also correctly displayed
• - some security risks have been fixed
• - completely new design
• - changed from jQuery to mootools
• - added a graph plotter and a (La)Tex Viewer/Math ML
• - added spam checks
• - added a badword filter (submissions containing those words will not be accepted)
• - improved integration for social communities
• - added an API for external usage of Codebase and Website integration

Download: CodebaseR3 alias Parabella Codebase 

The demo website for CodebaseR3, which i especially call "Parabella Codebase", will move from http://codebase.bumuckl.com to http://www.parabella.org ! Stay tuned for further updates!