I found this Team Fortress 2 video here, thanks to ubercharged.net:
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I found this on "Kovorka'z Gravel Pit" and like it, so here it is: I've been trying to get back into playing as Spy, I think I'm in the middle of the graph at the moment ;)
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As a PHP developer I've tried many different IDEs but have always ended going back to SciTE. I started using a version with modifications by Bruce Dodson, but got frustrated with it not listing PHP files in the default "File Open" window, and not recognizing PHP5 files as PHP files, so I got to tinkering. I changed the font and colours (for PHP files anyway), removed the other languages, enabled the auto-complete dropdown, changed the menus, included the PHP binary to check files for syntax errors, and included phpStylist to beautify source code.
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Another really good (funny) TF2 video, called "Gogol Rush" :)
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I just read about a program called "CleanMem" on gHacks.net, it's a little program (36kb) that reduces the amount of memory that running programs use. There are lots of programs out there that claim to do the same thing that work by filling your memory, forcing stuff to be moved out and into a file on your hard drive. This program's different, because (from what I can tell) it tells Windows to reduce the amount of total memory a program's using.
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I used to be dead against things like triggers... mainly because I hated coding them (and SQL) back when I learnt Oracle PL/SQL at college, and I've always been a "bare-minimum, must-be-backward-compatible, code-it-yourself" programmer... but now I've decided it's just much easier to use them, and it's not my fault if people refuse to upgrade to MySQL 5. So here's my niffty trigger code for the day, which automatically updates the "last_updated" (timestamp) field in a table, when a record is inserted or updated:
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