Author: csnorwood

My PC at home does actually host a website for testing purpose which you may be interested in seeing. A lot more content will be provided over time.

wlgfx@home Link updated (2017 Jul 31)

This only works when my home PC is on.

Hosting a website from your home PC is possible by using NOIP.com which my Sky router updates each time it is rebooted by sending noip.com my IP address. From there I added a setting on my router which redirects a port to a static IP which my PC is set at.

And that folks, is how I host stuff from my PC.

I only use Apache Tomcat 7, I’m not interested in PHP or SQL.

I’ve also tested out opening a specific port on the router and redirecting to my PC and having a TCP listener. The listener will accept 4 bytes (a command code). If the 4 bytes do not match any valid commands, the connection is closed. Otherwise it will send data back to the client. This project was an interesting test and is not currently running as I do not want to leave open ports on the internet for too long.

With the loss of the content from my old website, I am forced to start over again. In one sense that’s a good thing, but there was quite a bit that I really did want to keep.

With an insight into what I want out of my future, I am rebuilding my online profile.

Here, over time, there will be showcase examples of my programming skills as well as topics covering various experiences over the time that I’ve been a programmer. There are two simple examples so far, and I will post the code to that, hopefully, later.

Keep an eye out because I have a lot to write about…

I use the Eclipse IDE quite extensively. For C/C++, Java and more recently web projects. It has it’s faults, but it is damn good.

Okay, this website has been up for a good few days now and yet I’ve not found the time to find a decent theme or start adding content.

I really need to add something at least every night. Code snippets and other stuff.

My blog will contain updates and possibly some rants from time to time, but I aim to keep this as professional as possible for the future. I might even remove WordPress and add my own CMS as I am quite familiar with GWT now and Java.

I’m about to get myself sorted for work in the morning, so if I have enough time I will add a new page to start off my showcase examples using libGDX. LibGDX is a cross platform API not just for desktop, Android and iOS, but also for HTML5. I am building up some examples in HTML using libGDX.

This site and blog is centered around mainly around myself, my programming and my interests. Nothing more, nothing less.

It appears I’ve lost approximately 6 years of content from my old free hosting company (freehostingnoads.net), which I am seriously not happy with, but I’m going to plod on.