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Watch out, Battlestar Galactica Fans! Here comes an awesome flight simulator which will allow you to dive into the world of BsG.
The game is called “Beyond the Red Line” and will allow you to fly many ships, like the Viper Mk II, Viper Mk VII or Raptor. To have a first look at it I downloaded the demo from the official website.

After playing the demo single player campaign I can only say: I want more!
It is one hell of a game, you really become part of the Battlestar Galactica universe and I can’t wait to test the multi player demo part as it allows you to try all three included snubfighters: Viper Mk II, Viper Mk VII and Raptor.
Although the graphics are just awesome and the game play makes you really enjoy the experience to be a Viper-pilot, there are a few things I have to criticize:

The in-game menu is…uhm…let’s say, you need to get used to it. It is a bit difficult to keep the orientation there, but maybe they had such a display aboard the Galactica
Also, it takes a bit to get used to the controls, even with the tutorial which explains you everything you need to know about how to properly fly your ship. As a Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance veteran I have some troubles getting used to the aiming as it is very hard to make sure that your shots count. In the SP campaign I had a maximum hit percentage of 28%, maybe I just need to train a bit more to get better

Ok, ok, it is “just” a demo, so hopefully the final version will have fixed/improved some parts…but after all, the fun factor is there. I consider buying the game already, even if it is just for the fun or the graphics….

There is currently no release date for the game, or didn’t find it it. As soon as a date is published, I will update this article

Meanwhile download the demo from the official website any enjoy it!

As most of the computer users I enjoy listen to music while working on something.
There are many good free/semi-free media players, like Winamp, QuickTime, RealPlayer to mention a few.

Although they are nice, I discovered a media which will beat them all. It is based on the same engine used by Firefox and Thunderbird.

The player is called Songbird and you can download it at the official website Songbirdnest.com

I really like this media player and can’t wait for the next updates

Now, after we learned how to show content and also had a first glance at variables, we will now go a step further.

To define a variable in PHP you just need to use $ and a variable name: $variable.
You can use as variable name whatever you like, however you are not allowed to let it start with a number, like $1variable and there are also some predefined variables, about which I will talk later.

There are many types of variables, but for now we concentrate on 4 types (actually 5, but the fifth will follow in another tutorial). Continue…

I just found this interesting project named “This Page Intentionally Left Blank (TPILB) on the Net. It is about adding a blank page to your website intentionally.

Maybe you wonder why one would do it, well, it is supposed to remember of the days where the printed manuals had some blank pages….

In former times printed manuals had some blank pages, usually with the remark “this page intentionally left blank”.
In most cases there had been technical reasons for that.
Today almost all blank pages disappeared and if some still exist here and there, they present flattery comments like “for your notes” instead of the real truth: This page intentionally left blank!

quoted from the official TPILB-Project website

However, I decided to add such a page to my blog. Have a look and enjoy this nice blank page!

So, you got the idea how the basic HTML page is build? If not, read the HTML Tutorial 101: Basics before you continue

Ok, so you think your page got already some interesting content…but I bet the layout is…uhm…let’s say boring…white background and black text…depending on the server default…so, the good news is there are tags which allow you to manipulate how a page is displayed.

Maybe you think there has to be a bad news if I only mention the good news above. Well, there are two bad news:
to write valid XHTML code you need to
1. learn some CSS (=Cascading Style Sheet) and
2. define the DTD (=DocTypeDefinition).

Before you start searching my blog (or the web) for a CSS tutorial you should know that I will cover some basic CSS knowledge in this tutorial and write some CSS Tutorials at a later date.

Now, after you calmed down, let’s go on with this tutorial:

Update: Because of the recent update of the W3C validator I’m introducing here, I had to expand the tutorial and added a couple more things at the bottom of the tutorial. Continue…