It is official, I published my first conference paper:

Theurer, D.; Kennedy, M.; Venkataraman, H. and Muntean, G.M. “Analysis of individual energy consuming components in a wireless handheld device”, in Proceedings of China Ireland International Conference on Information Technology (CIICT 2010), Wuhan, China, Oct. 8-9, 2010.

This paper is the result of my research of my summer internship. I would like to thank my supervisors for their great support! Unforunately funding did not allow me to attend the conference in China myself. I prepared the presentation slides and Mr. Zhenhui Yuan, a PhD student in DCU, who attended the conference was so kind to present my paper. Thanks a lot!

This summer I was given the opportunity to take part in a summer research internship called Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School (ODCSSS or Odysseus). It is a joint programme by the Dublin City University (DCU) and University College of Dublin (UCD) and funded by the Science Foundation Ireland. During ten weeks of work in DCU I gained first-hand experience in research.

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The website I created for the Japanese Society of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) was awarded the Website of the Year award in the Society of the Year Awards 2010. The central societies committee of TCD annually awards prizes to the university’s societies in a few categories, one of them being for the best website.

I was aiming for this award when I was asked to create the website by the Japanese Society. Given all the effort it took I am happy that the website is appreciated like this.

Shibuya, Tokyo

Shibuya at night

Shinjuku, Tokyo

After my work camp I spent another five weeks travelling around Japan. Eriko, a friend from college, was so kind to let me stay with her and her parents for a week in Hiratsuka which is not far from Tokyo. During that week I often visited Tokyo, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends I made in the work camp. Eriko guided me around Kamakura and Enoshima. Before I would leave for a journey by myself, we visited Hakone where we watched fireworks during the Bon festival.

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Showa-mura, Fukushima

Far, far away in the hills of the Fukushima prefecture in Japan lies the village called Showa-mura that created many lasting memories for me. After spending one day in Tokyo the contrast could not have been bigger when I arrived in the village far off any cities and surrounded by rice fields and forest. Ten days I would spend there together with a small group of foreigners like me and Japanese who all decided to do voluntary work.

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Note: this tutorial is a few years old. Please don’t expect me to answer any questions or give out code.

What is this tutorial about?

In this tutorial I want to show you how to modify another application to call a function in your injected DLL. I use the game Ragnarok Online as an example. I want a function in my DLL to be called when I open a shop in the game. In my last tutorial you can see how I found the piece of code that is executed when a shop is opened.

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Note: this tutorial is a few years old. Please don’t expect me to answer any questions or give out code.

What is this tutorial about?

In this tutorial I want to show you how to call a function of another program or game and how to get the address of this function. The tutorial is written for people who have little to no assembly knowledge.

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Note: This article is a few years old. The program that this article is about is outdated and not available anymore. Please don’t ask me for the source code.

This was my first project to be released to the public. The program was a 3rd party program for the game Ragnarok Online.

I haven’t really made it to get advantages in the game but to learn about DLL injection and network programming. There were two different versions using two different methods.

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