I was sitting here trying to come up with a topic for a blog post. I could post about how the Windows Phone project is coming along and how cool it was to add a splash screen that says “Microsoft” on it. But having Microsoft use my app…
Continue readingI have been using a screen capture utility to create animations from my linkage mechanism simulator. It worked ok but creating the animation directly is a better choice. Fortunately, Windows provides all of the tools necessary to add this directly into the program. I added a Save Video…
Continue readingI am adding an alignment feature to the Linkage program. So far, I have three ways to align connectors. Right Angle Before and after alignment three connectors to form a right angle. When three connectors are selected, a right angle can be made by moving the third…
Continue readingI 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 readingThe only hint I can give for this puzzle is to say that it is a puzzle. There is something encoded in the arrows. I will send $50.00 via paypal to the first person to solve it (although no one reads my blog so I’m off the hook!)….
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