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Alan Hamlyn

Alan Hamlyn has written 91 posts for Wuup

PHP: Submit a Form Automatically or PHP Spam Bot

Hi there, I’m posting you something PHP related, however it wasn’t intially made to be malicious. It was designed for a client who had multiple submission forms and want to test them all at once. In this instance, I have designed and created a little function which allows for re-usable code.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE QUOTATION [...]

Left 4 Dead Review

It’s sometimes hard not to be bias when you’ve been waiting expectedly for a game for so long, however I will do my best not be! Also I guess it’s fair to say this review wouldn’t be 100% either as the game has only  been out in the UK since yesterday, though I have played [...]

PC World Suck

Time for me to have a little rant, though ranting is unusal for me… and also a lot of you right now will be thinking surely you already know PC World suck, well your right I did already, however the last time I visited one was nearly 7 years ago, so I thought it was [...]

Can we trust reputable game review sites & magazines?

After my bad experience with Far Cry 2, it has left me wondering if we can really trust ‘reputable’ games review sites & magazines, which give us amazing comments like “game of the year”, “amazing game” blah blah, when clearly they are wrong, I mean, do they even play the games?? Cause if they did they’d [...]

SEO: 5 Easy Search Engine Optimisation Tips

SEO, something I really enjoy, however I strongly disagree with ‘black hat’ methods, as they are not only more likely to get you banned, they are short lived too.  So here’s a few simple steps you can do to achieve better search engine rankings.
1. Add more relevant Copy
Content is king, and if anything is almost [...]

Google & Analytics Dashboard Update

Googles gone anal with another update to it’s admin panel for Google Analytics, however once you get over the confusion of being away from normality it’s pretty good, now from a glance you can view the important stuff, and go into the nitty gritty details if you want. One critism though is that it doesn’t [...]

Left 4 Dead Preview

Ever since Zombie Panic, the source mod, I’ve been ‘dead’ excited about Left 4 Dead, sorry about the terrible pun, but I’m so excited about its upcoming release I helped myself to the ‘generous’ $5 discount from steam, and pre-ordered it. I did have to have a little helping hand from the exclusive demo to those who pre-order, which was definatley worth it, anything to get a glimpse of this top game!

Great Web Design Resources

I thought I would try and up my useful factor to level 3 (years of wizardry games does this to a man) - by giving you access to various websites / resources I find useful, of course the sites I link to will be going yay, we got an inbound link from the mighty Wuup! [...]

My Far Cry 2 Update

So I’ve been in trapped in africa for some time now… we actually lets step back into reality again. I played this game solidly for 12 hrs now according to my steam account, and from my other review, you already know it’s shit - but you know me, I’m not one to be too give [...]

EA DRM Sucks & They Lie too!

LoL, after reading a few BBC news articles on EA, I realised they are not only evil, but big fat liars too!
DRM = pure evil, it peanlizes the legitimate gamers, and encourages people to pirate there games. It also lead to the most downloaded game torrent - SPORE.
The DRM (digital rights managment) only allowed Spore [...]