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May 2012

Computers & Programming

Letter Pattern Word Search

This is a JavaScript/PHP implementation of the letter pattern word search program. This takes a series of C and V characters then finds words with matching consonants and vowels with the given pattern. I originally built a C++ version of this to find words with given patterns for…

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Arrow Puzzle

The only hint I can give for this puzzle is to say that it is a puzzle. There is something encoded in the arrows. I will send $50.00 via paypal to the first person to solve it (although no one reads my blog so I’m off the hook!)….

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Computers & Programming

New Blog Style

I was inspired to use a Windows Phone style for my blog. I came up with this: It’s not really the Windows Phone style but it does move towards the simplicity that I see on the phone and on the Windows App Hub site. The choice of color…

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Computers & Programming

MMO Simulation of Real Life

I was thinking earlier today about my railroading/train game ideas. In my train game, you would manage a railroad. The first version of the game would have the player starting with enough money to build a small railroad. The game would take place in an area that had…

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Computers & Programming

Tombstoned

… or “How my app dies and comes back to life to read its own tombstone” I’m working on code related to tombstoning my Windows Phone app. I’m slowly discovering that the Microsoft designers were not thinking much about app developers when they designed their tombstoning feature. When…

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