I 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!)….
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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