Because 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…
Continue readingI have never felt the need to title a sculpture. After seeing an “artist” on TV giving fancy names to giant colored canvases, I felt that a name is just a distraction. Plus, I never like the names that I come up with and never feel a verbal…
Continue readingI added a bit of JavaScript to all of my web pages yesterday. Today, I see this: The Google Analytics info is quite interesting. I can’t wait to see what I get tomorrow when there has been a full day of activity. Apparently, there are a few people…
Continue readingI have just “installed” the code in my blog pages to record information to Google Analytics. If this causes anyone a problem or you have a concern, please let me know. I just want to know if anyone is visiting this blog or any other pages on my…
Continue readingLast night, I decided that I would port my circletest program to JavaScript. I use the circletest program to test various geometric constructions. Most of the geometry related programming that I do is accomplished using techniques that are traditionally manual operations. A lot of interesting things can be…
Continue readingI picked up a pneumatic die grinder at Harbor Freight for $15.00. It is a tony right angle unit and would be an awesome tool if not for the fact that my compressor runs out of air after I use it for about 30 seconds. So I bought…
Continue readingTwilio requires a few things that I didn’t know about when I started this project. One is connecting to an HTTP server in a C++ program, another is SSL for HTTP in said C++ program, and the third is website authentication, again in C++. What this all boils…
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