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I discovered an odd feature of the mobile Safari browser on IOS 5 on my iPad. I suspect that this is the same for the iPhone and iPod as well. If a page is set up so that it takes 100% of the screen and then the page…
Continue readingI am working on JavaScript code that will show a preview of a local image file before it is uploaded. A web page has a preview area that uses an HTML5 canvas for the preview so that the image can be scaled to fit in the area while…
Continue readingI‘m not really testing HTML5 on my new iPad. I’m just playing games. Planetary Defense is the only thing I’ve written and it works way better than expected. The strangest thing happened yesterday: Take a look at the little red dot in the lower right corner. Here it…
Continue readingI am trying an iPad app for blogging. This one called BE Write seems to work ok. I’ll know more after I try it for a while. So far, the only problem is tha it won’t wok in landscape mode and it’s hard to type on the smaller…
Continue readingI am in the process of updating my/our website. I have not been adding things to it for the last year because I have been trying to blog more and use Facebook and the blog to post images. This blog post should now show up on www.rectorsquid.com until…
Continue readingI did a quick update of Planetary Defense. After testing it on an iPad2, I decided to leave it alone except for a few changes to the different levels of the game. After 60 bombs have been sent at the planetoid, enemy missiles show up. If the player…
Continue readingThese 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…
Continue readingI 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…
Continue readingIs 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…
Continue readingScarecrow 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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