DotA RSS
For the uninitiated, DotA is “Defense of the Ancients”, a Warcraft 3 map that changes enough about the game to be completely separate game in its own right. It’s awesome. Check it out at their official homepage, and also check out the video below.
For those who have been playing it for a while, you will have undoubtedly found yourself in a situation where you log onto Battle.net and find a bunch of games using a new map that wasn’t out yesterday. Join, and you’ll hear a chorus of “kick DLer!!!11lolz” from the people already in the game. You may even find hosts who delight in letting you download 97% of the map only to kick you before completion.
No longer. I’ve long had a set of scripts to grab the latest DotA from getdota.com and automatically download it to all my computers. I’ve reworked these scripts to also publish a DotA RSS feed at:
You can take this RSS feed and put it into your local RSS reader (I use NewsFire), or sign up for a service like Google Reader. Yahoo! even has an Alerts service that will send text messages to your cell phone for free, in addition to more conventional things like email.
Enjoy!
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Have tried the word scrambler. Would be a great stuff, BUT words containing accented characters are handled improperely. The scrambler gives up and either: a) leaves the accented word as is, unchanged, or b) scrambles it, but uses a fixed character order – this means that multiple ocuurences of the same word in a text always lead to exactly the same output string. Scrambling of pure ASCII text does not suffer from this, so the problem must be rekated to the improper handling of character encoding in the scrambler.