Working notes and small writeups.
Notes from building software, mostly the parts worth remembering by Jason Brown (Loktar).
A person asked a question in my post about sorting dates in Javascript, basically on how to return a measurement of time between dates, such as days, hours, minutes, seconds. I haven't really ever had to do something like this so I figured I would see if it was as easy as I assumed it would be in JS...
Update Submission for the js1k competition. My 3rd, and final one only the last one you enter is judged and I think this is going to be as good as it gets from me that is. I ended up settling on a clone of a cool game I used to play when I was a network admin in the Air Force called Wire Hang Redux...
Theres a javascript 1k competition going on here the rules are simple make something using only javascript in under 1k. It can be minified, whatever just as long as its 1024 bytes or smaller. This is what I submitted (Caution could cause seizures, and vomiting!). You can only submit one thing which kind of sucks...
Finally sat down this weekend and completed my Javascript Lunar Lander clone, JSLander. Decided to make it after messing around with midpoint displacement towards the end of last year. The development of JSLander overall wasn't too bad, the trickiest thing was making everything work exactly the same when you were zoomed in...
Been messing with canvas again, and put together a little demo that creates procedural cell looking textures, based off of the Worley algorithm. You can achieve some pretty amazing results, also added the option to animate, but since the algorithm has not been optimized yet you have to keep the dimensions and number of points low..."
Just finished up another site for a client, http://www.michiganwakeup.com. They were very pleased with it. They asked for a site that was very simple and to the point. I still feel as if there is something missing.. but I had a 48-hour turnaround time for this so I had to get developing pretty fast on the design...
DSx86 is awesome! I don't know what it is but something about old dos games on handheld systems excites me, I think its because even those old games seem to have more depth and content than many of the current games in the handheld market...
Like always still messing around creating random things using JavaScript and the Canvas element. My most recent side project was implementing some Action Script lightning code posted by Rybar over on the Flixel forums. Here is what I came up with...
Just finished up a design for a client Mio Ausable Schools. I think it turned out pretty well. One of the funny things is this is the High School I actually went to oh so many years ago, a place where I flexed my brain technology wise...
I have been using MSSQL with ASP.NET a lot lately, and I really wanted to get some of the benefits of stored procedures into a PHP application I'm writing. I've known MySQL has supported them for a while but I guess I was always a bit too lazy...
