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November 2011

Computers & Programming

Kinetic Art

These days, the term “kinetic art” means “machinery” to me. It is physical and moves from the wind, a motor, or perhaps someone turning a crank. I don’t think of kinetic art as pictures. Television is certainly not kinetic art. Art on a screen can be kinetic. Like…

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Planetary Defense

Path Finding for Missiles

I was out of town for a week. Before I left, I worked hard to add a level to Planetary Defense that would include enemy missiles. The current Planetary Defense game has three levels, The first is the standard game with the satellite in orbit around the planetoid…

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Computers & Programming

Program Language Fluency

Is it important to be fluent in a programming language? I’m not sure anymore. I write C++ code all day every day. At least on days when I am working on the normal native-application cross-platform stuff that I do here. We have a few programs that run as…

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Computers & Programming

AJAX and Mrs. King

Scarecrow and Mrs. King was a TV show from way way back. For some reason, it came to mind right when I was typing the title of this post. Scarecrow was the code name for a spy. Mrs. King was a housewife. They spied on people and helped…

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Computers & Programming

HTML5

I am really bad at keeping up with blogging. It’s not because absolutely no one reads this stuff. It is because I am lazy. Knowing I am lazy doesn’t help either. Damn is it hot in my office right now. I think that latte had more than just…

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