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I was sitting around last night and my boredom led me to implement another new feature in the Linkage program. Download the Windows installation file for the Linkage program to run it on your Windows computer. The editor now supports snapping. Snapping is when an element is being…
Continue readingI recently added a new feature to the Linkage program. The new feature allows an input to be manually controlled during an animated simulation. There are currently four types of simulations: Animated Simulation The simulation is run in real time and the animation of the moving mechanism is…
Continue readingI found this animation of a simulator on the web. It came from http://gtrebaol.free.fr/doc/flash/four_bar/doc/. The interesting thing about it is the little twist that happens during the simulation. I quickly created a version of this mechanism using my Linkage editor/simulator program and found that I could not make…
Continue readingI did some searching and found that the easiest way for me to redirect an Ajax request from one of my pages to a different server would be to make the request to a PHP script on my own server and have that script make the request to…
Continue readingThis 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…
Continue readingThe only reason that I am writing this post is to test some formatting changes I’m making. I’m using the H4 heading tag in the HTML to create a callout in the text. It’s not a heading, just a mostly normal paragraph with an image and some indenting….
Continue readingI 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…
Continue readingI 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…
Continue reading"Agile" software development often has developers, testers, writers, etc., all working for a short period of time to 100% finish one small part of the product before moving on to another part of the product. This time period might be as short as a week. At the end…
Continue readingSilverlight applications on a Windows Phone use a web-style mechanism for page navigation. Most applications will have at least a few levels of child pages in a hierarchy where a child page represents some sort of activity started by an action on a parent page. In a weather…
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