The app is fairly simple and might be a decent starting point for other apps, or as a tutorial for new developers.

If you want to contribute to the npCalc project with either code or graphics, contact me.

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It features all the functionality the web-based npCalc offers, is free, and contains no ads.

npCalc single battle example

npCalc battle results

You can install it directly with Barcode Scanner here;

Through AppBrain here: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.josteinb.npcalc

Or by searching for npCalc in the Android Market on your phone.

As always, feedback is much appreciated

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3. Neptune’s Pride Battle Calculator v0.3

What went wrong was as simple as using type=”text/javascript” for javascripts in stead of type=”application/javascript”. gah.

As allways, feedback is appreciated!

the new version is located here.

The old versions can still be found here if anything stops working for you:

version 0.1

version 0.2

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The game uses some simple math to calculate the outcome of battles, and since I am lazy I got tired of doing that math and started working on a battle calculator.

This is my first attempt on php, and it is a work in progress… so feedback is appreciated.

Try it out here: Neptune’s Pride Battle Calculator

UPDATE:

I have ditched php, and gone for javascript in v0.2 of the calculator… Now the workflow is more streamlined since you don’t have to go between different pages to get to results.  Seems to be some css-problems though. And javascript issues with IE. Working on it.

…And apparently IE doesn’t care about height / min-height unless you add an !important to it.

the old version can still be found here

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After some tweaking around in analytics it turned out that most of the new bouncing traffic came from Safari, from a machine with the same screen resolution as mine, from my city, my broad band provider and so on.

It turns out that this is because my blog had appeared on Safaris “Top Sites”, a grid of often visited web pages on the welcome screen of Safari. And every time you open safari, it contacts the webpage for an updated snapshot of the page.  This is recorded by analytics and regarded as a bounce visit, decreasing your average time on site and increasing your bounce rate.

So far, it doesn’t seem like there is any other solution to this except removing the site from “Top Sites”, until Google or Apple figure something out.  This of course does not solve the, for me not yet existing, problem of bogus traffic from other Safari users.

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Now everything (at least for norwegian documents) should be working as expected.

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Thanks, Peder 2.

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It is based on the listings package, we define a lstset that handles the code.  This in combination with a nice caption makes for a nice presentation of source code.

Here is the final result:

LaTeX Source Code Screenshot

“Read more” for the rest of the article

The packages needed are:

• \usepackage{listings}
• \usepackage{cite}
• \usepackage{caption}
• \usepackage{upquote}
• \usepackage{xcolor}
• \usepackage{xcolor}

We now define the caption as:

\DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{listing}{\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\textwidth}{#1#2#3}}}
\captionsetup[lstlisting]{format=listing,labelfont=white,textfont=white}

This makes a gray box for the caption, with white text.

Now define the lstset with the following:

\lstset{
language=Java,
keywordstyle=\bfseries\ttfamily\color[rgb]{0,0,1},
identifierstyle=\ttfamily,
commentstyle=\color[rgb]{0.133,0.545,0.133},
stringstyle=\ttfamily\color[rgb]{0.627,0.126,0.941},
showstringspaces=false,
basicstyle=\small,
numberstyle=\footnotesize,
numbers=left,
stepnumber=1,
numbersep=10pt,
tabsize=2,
breaklines=true,
prebreak = \raisebox{0ex}[0ex][0ex]{\ensuremath{\hookleftarrow}},
breakatwhitespace=false,
aboveskip={1.5\baselineskip},
columns=fixed,
upquote=true,
extendedchars=true,
frame=bottomline,
inputencoding=utf8
}

The language must obviously be changed to the language  you are using, to provide the correct syntax coloring.

the numbers parameter chooses whether to show line numbers or not, the prebreak parameter adds an arrow to indicate that the line is broken.  The upquote parameter ensures that no fancu “‘s are used, so that you can copy the code and still be able to run it.  The other parameters should be self-explanatory, and can be modified as you see fit.

To use this in your document, you can insert code directly with:

\begin{lstlisting}[label=some-samplecode, caption=Example for code straight from the .tex file]

<insert code here>

\end{lstlisting}

or you can insert code from an external file using:

\lstinputlisting[label=samplecode,caption=Example for code from a file]{sourceCode/K53.java}

all of these can now be referenced from other places in the document with the \ref{labelname} command, and will show up in your overview of listings.

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Read his article at http://truben.no/journal/auto-hide-tab-bar-in-mozilla-thunderbird-3/

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