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I 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…
Continue readingI am really bad at keeping up with blogging. It’s not because absolutely no one reads this stuff. It is because I am lazy. Knowing I am lazy doesn’t help either. Damn is it hot in my office right now. I think that latte had more than just…
Continue readingStep 3. Well, this is really something like step 10. I didn’t post for a few days and now I have this running on the iPhone, and on the emulator seen here: I used tables to get the bubbles looking right and to automatically size themselves, within certain…
Continue readingStep 2 I have the images worked out for the outgoing content. Since I styled these by hand, I only set the classes properly for the one that appears complete in the image. I added a div inside of the cell that contains the text. I then gave…
Continue readingStep 1 I want to write PHP code that will read a log file of some sort and then create an HTML display for it. The display needs to look like an SMS text messaging system such as is seen on the iPhone. I only need the timestamps,…
Continue readingI have two new web coding/designing projects to work on. 1 A friend wanted a website designed to sell photos. I would think that there are sites that let you sell stuff that are very well designed and look appropriate for that sort of thing but maybe not….
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