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Scalable HTML Canvas / Processing.js sketch
A bit of background: we are trying to port a game written in Adobe Flash to HTML5 using Processing.js. Flash An SWF (Flash) file is placed inside a page using HTML <object>/<embed> tags....
View ArticleProcessing.js SVG support tester
SVG has been a nightmare over the last decade. It used to be that every implementation is different, no one software created files compatible with any other software. These days the situation is a lot...
View ArticleMy awesome students: Winter 2012 HTML5 DSA
I had a diploma and degree version of a multimedia course in the summer, where half the course was about HTML5 technologies. The major assignment was for students to implement a functional animation of...
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Because life is short
Some of the photos from my first jump, from the 28th of April 2012. Amazing experience!
View ArticleFractions driving game in HTML5 instead of Flash
I’ve been working on this project part time for a while now, and finally it started bothering me that I couldn’t google the requirements document. That is so because I haven’t publicised it yet, so...
View ArticleInstall all the -dev and -doc packages in Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
Hey look, it’s 2012/12/12 – cool! But that’s not what this post is about. It always pissed me off big time that the more popular Linux distros don’t install the development files (like header files) or...
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If I had a car like this when I was young…
Things would have been different! I guess that’s not the type of machine you can transport on the highway other than in pieces, so here are just the enormous tires:
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Saftey first at York University
I’m the last guy to be anal about safety, but this is just hilarious!
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I thought LibreOffice was going to be better
I ran into a major issue with LibreOffice today, the version (3.6.22) that comes with LinuxMint14. It will not open the spreadsheet with my grades for last semester! It just hangs there at “Loading...
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GtkFileChooser not choosing
I maintain a reasonably popular app called Asunder. This app has in its preferences a GtkFileChooserButton, and implementation of the (supposedly) interface GtkFileChooser. I’ve been getting bug...
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APNG in Chromium
Max Stepin (the APNG maintainer) has added APNG support to Chromium. Good job, man!
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Whee, I got DDOSed
Once a month I archive my Apache logs. Which involves downloading them from the server and analysing them a little. This month (last month actually, I am slow with my blogging) there was something...
View ArticleMeasuring project effort in something other than Lines-Of-Code
It occurred to me recently that when it comes to a software project – it takes more than just code to make it successful but at the same time we typically only measure the scope of a software project...
View ArticleWe used to write real shell scripts
I got a few requests from readers of my Newfoundland trip to give them maps so they can more easily figure out where I’ve been. Should be easy given that I recorded most of the trip using a...
View ArticleRockbox firmware for Sansa Clip Zip
I used to have a Sansa Clip Plus. After years of awesome service the clip from the Clip Plus broke off, which made it much less useful. For the last year I have been using a Sansa Clip Zip – a much...
View ArticleKickstarting APNG
I post something on this blog occasionally about APNG and about how I’m no longer involved with it and about how this guy Max Stepin has been driving it for years. The last thing I mentioned on the...
View ArticleDPS924 Part1: What’s wrong with you?
I’m taking DPS924, an Android programming course here at Seneca. I’m officially registered in it as a student, and even paid 20$ for it (I get a special deal as a faculty member :)). Why on earth would...
View ArticleDPS924 Part2: First lecture
Had my first lecture yesterday. What an experience! I was absolutely sure that it won’t be much like when I was an actual student at Seneca, but it turns out I was wrong. Turns out I felt exactly the...
View ArticleDPS924 Part3: Setting up myseneca email using IMAP/SMTP and Thunderbird
Ooh, for a second I thought I would be forced into using OWA for reading my email! How horrible. There are no instructions on the ITS Services site, and the instructions I found in another student’s...
View ArticleDPS924 Part4: Distractions and attention
There’s so much hype and “research” and overall nonsense thrown around about the attention span of the average student that it’s really hard to figure out what’s actually happening. Are all students...
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