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I just installed MarsEdit on the iMac. I’m not sure what sort of features are available so an experiment is in order. In HTML mode, I see the HTML tags. This sort of sucks. Yes, I know that I SHOULD see the tags in HTML mode. It should…
Continue readingThe situation is that the software product will send an email to someone when there is an error. Many errors can be reported once a day because the software is working fine for most tasks but didn’t have what it needed for a moment. Many errors need to…
Continue readingI am the proud owner of a used iMac. I just haven’t turned it on yet. In fact, it is in a box half way here right now. I am starting an iOS project but I also hope to port the Linkage program to the Mac at some…
Continue readingI wrote a while back about what I had discovered about AJAX and posting form data. I recently reused some of that old code and found some needed code to be missing. The old post is here. What I had not coded before was code to handle form…
Continue readingIt took me a while but I now totally understand the DXF format. It wasn’t until I needed to change a bit of the output from the free source code I used, that I needed up getting the details I needed to not be confused. The format is…
Continue readingThe release of SimCity 5 sparked my interest in a new Railroad Tycoon game. Although Electronic Arts seems to have failed to build a SimCity game that works like I want it to work, their failure was mostly in releasing a game that could then not be played….
Continue readingThe code was fairly simple to write and I had a few minutes to spare today while running some long tests on other code. The video shows a few variations of the multiple slider mechanisms. The sliding connectors must have the exact same sliding radius for these to…
Continue readingLink That Slides on Curve I am attempting to make a link slide on a curve. When I started writing the code to handle this, I thought that maybe there is a better way. There must be a way to write the simulation code so that there are…
Continue readingWhile testing the sliding link feature to make sure that I had not missed something when programming the curved path handling, I have been making interesting mechanisms. Although some configurations are still not handled in the code, things like this work fine. Interesting Mechanism Video
Continue readingA typo in my post a moment ago made me wonder if I should just add a letter to the word “linkage” and use that as the new name of the program. “Linkjage” has a certain ring to it. Oscillating input is something that I have thought about…
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