Working notes and small writeups.
Notes from building software, mostly the parts worth remembering by Jason Brown (Loktar).
Recently came across this awesome java game Minecraft basically the whole goal of the game (multiplayer that is) is to create and destroy things. At first I was pretty skeptical, the concept is so simple.. until I found myself spending hours recreating Mario...
Plugin has been updated to 1.4 please go here for more up to date information. Updated fixed a bug, and added an example file to show how to use the plugin. Added a few new things to the Jquery snowfall plugin, you now have the ability to clear the snow from elements..
When I sit down to prototype something new I always find myself looking up the same snippets to do the same types of things. I figured I might as well record them somewhere so I know an easy place to look when I do forget. All the samples will be in Javascript and should be able to be easily converted to any other language...
I've been trying to do regular programming exercises lately just to stay sharp and recently I decided to take on sorting algorithms. I used my current language of choice (javascript) and set out to implement the quick sort algorithm. Below is the portion of my code that completes this...
Working on my calendar application and I needed to get what week in the current month a day occurs on. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything like this in the JavaScript Date object so this is the function I came up with...
Game is still coming along, it now supports zooming, which was actually a little bit tricky to figure out. Only a few more things left to add before its a full fledged game.. or clone of a game that is. Check out the progress of JSLander. Now supported in any browser that supports the canvas element...
I'm currently working on a web based calendar and I needed to sort my event object by date real quick. So the first thing I did was a quick search on sorting an object by date time. Google becomes such second nature I immediately think of doing that first sometimes before fleshing out a whole solution in my mind...
Working on a lot of things lately but noticed I haven't made a post in quite a while. Heres a quick look at one of the random games I'm making using JavaScript and the Canvas element. Its essentially a clone of Lunar Lander. As it is right now you can't actually crash, and if you successfully land on one of the pads, you drop from the top again...
Been working on the single player canvas game this week and got a few cool things accomplished in terms of performance. The main thing I was working on was trying to reduce the slowdown on real time image rotation. What I ended up coming up with was creating rotated sprite sheets on the fly in memory...
A while back I posted a link to a Flash game I was working on, it was going to be multiplayer using Nanoba. Unfortunately I gave up on it pretty quickly, I'm not a big fan of Flash and I wanted to learn something totally different, so I decided to try and remake the game using Canvas...
