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I was reading an old blog post http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ and came across this line: “Anyone describing themselves as either a Java programmer or .NET programmer has already lost.” The point he was making, and continued to make after this line, is that programming languages don’t matter. It’s an old…
Continue readingI had a project that required key codes. These are codes sort of like the key codes used by software companies to activate your software. For my situation, the most effective way to pass around these codes is as long integers. Otherwise, math on these values, like to…
Continue readingI built a fairly complex skill game for Trials Fusion on the Xbox One. Jet Hoverbike Challenge was created by me, rectorsquid, as a sort of Lunar Lander style game. Jet Hoverbike Challenge Gameplay Trials Fusion, and earlier versions of the game like Trials Evolution, have a track…
Continue readingI’m going to write a post about the Alpha Color Mixer that I wrote and published in the Windows ‘App’ Store (http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/alpha-color-mixer/63825206-eb36-4ab7-a223-42d52410ffa9). But I am working a little on the code and I want to clean it up before I publish it for mass review. The Alpha Color…
Continue readingA long time ago, I added some AJAX code to my blog so that the Lake Tahoe water temperature is displayed on my blog pages. It’s in the right navigation column down at the bottom. It doesn’t appear immediately and sometimes not at all if the temperature server…
Continue readingI’m getting more requests for features in the Linkage program than ever before. I am now using Axosoft issue tracking software to keep track of bugs and feature requests. Here’s the current list that I generated from user emails and from my memory of things that I want….
Continue readingThis post is just here to hold the sources for the latest version of the image preview JavaScript code. I moved the code out of some generic files that hold a bunch of other JavaScript code and CSS data, and into files specific to the image preview page….
Continue readingBack in this post, I wrote about previewing a file before uploading it. I had taken someone else’s concept and did my own version of it to suit my own needs. Recently, someone asked me how to clear the file selection. I’m not sure if that what was…
Continue readingA long time ago, my brilliant daughter was in the Gifted-and-Talented (G.T.) program at her school. She had an assignment to find an equation for each number from 0 to 50 with the rules being that the digit 4 must appear 4 times in the equation, and that…
Continue readingThe linkage program has an interesting problem; any one simulation step starts with the mechanism in its original position and then processes the inputs to generate a new position for every link. Actuator lengths are also changed to their new lengths at the same time. What this means…
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