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I have had two people mention that they wanted the linkage program to run on Windows XP. One person had told me that it crashed and I then changed the install program to fail if the system is XP and not Vista or Windows 7. Well, I finally…
Continue readingI have worked on various personal and professional computer programming projects over the years. This is a collection of some of those projects. Links are provided when more details are available. Dates are rough estimates for when the program was developed. Art projects can be found here. Show…
Continue readingModified Freemantle Linkage or Evans Linkage The linkage above cannot be simulated in the Linkage program (See Linkage 2.0). This appears to be a valid mechanism because there are three anchors all used to position link 1 (in dark blue). I am trying to decide how to handle…
Continue readingI have only been programming in JavaScript for about a year. I don’t count tiny simple bits of code for submitting forms when a button is clicked or other simple actions that don’t take any language-specific skill. I just encountered an issue that I had seen but never…
Continue readingIn space, no one can hear you scream! I think that was the tag line for a movie like Friday the 13th in Space. Interestingly, it is true. Joss Whedon is about the only movie maker who ever (in recent years) stuck with scientific facts and had no…
Continue readingI have updated my programming projects page to include a reference to the Windows Phone projects that I have been working on. It is a commercial app made for a client. It is a port of their existing Android app. Programming Projects This has been a very interesting…
Continue readingBecause my creativity seldom ventures far from home. Planetary Defense is a fun game. Not so much on a tablet because tapping the screen actually makes it hard to see what’s going on when a big finger obscures the tiny incoming bombs. But it’s sort of fun and…
Continue reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . There was a time when computer displays only showed text. A programmer might print out a period for every 1000 records of a large database that updated. As the program runs,…
Continue readingThinking Out Loud… I wrote, well mostly ported, an Android app to the Windows Phone (WP7) and I am having a bit of trouble dealing with the navigation model. I have two problems; Tombstoning and passing data between pages. Tombstoning is a problem that I cannot solve until…
Continue readingI recently got back to improving the crossword puzzle generator. The previous algorithm would only allow for clumps of four letters by pre-searching the word list and forming four word clumps. When the placement algorithm was running, it would try to place those four word clumps onto the…
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