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Computers & Programming

Computers & Programming

Fixed a bug today

I don’t have anything new going on with my latest home projects. I have been working a bit on the auto email web interface, the interface that looks like a native IOS app, but nothing has been worth reporting yet. I fixed a bug at work today. The…

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Computers & Programming

OSX OpenGL Cocoa App?

I have a Mac Mini that I got for free. It does not have an Intel processor so I cannot upgrade the OS and cannot do any IOS development. I can do OSX development. My plan is to write a program that uses Cocoa and OpenGL version 2.x….

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AJAX and Multipart/Form-Data

I’m writing a lot of code most evenings. Here is some code I wrote in JavaScript to submit an AJAX request using multipart/form-data encoding. This is better than the more typical application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding because data does not need to be reformatted if it contains things that are not…

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Computers & Programming

More iPad HTML5 Testing

I‘m not really testing HTML5 on my new iPad. I’m just playing games. Planetary Defense is the only thing I’ve written and it works way better than expected. The strangest thing happened yesterday: Take a look at the little red dot in the lower right corner. Here it…

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Computers & Programming

www.rectorsquid.com Update

I am in the process of updating my/our website. I have not been adding things to it for the last year because I have been trying to blog more and use Facebook and the blog to post images. This blog post should now show up on www.rectorsquid.com until…

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Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Update

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…

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Computers & Programming

Kinetic Art

These 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…

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Planetary Defense

Path Finding for Missiles

I 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…

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Computers & Programming

Program Language Fluency

Is 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…

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