If you are unfamiliar with μlogger, it is a handy Android application paired with a self hosted server application to keep track of your location. Or, in the author’s own […]
Which 3D engine to use?
Well, it’s time to pick which engine/sdk I am going to use to make my dice game. Now the big question is what game engine to use. There may be […]
Home photo server, part 1: Server Setup, SCP and FTP
While there are many, many options out there for photo storage, if you are looking for a home storage solution that does NOT involve just plugging in your phone and […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: The JustChessEngine
Sometimes, you just have to step out in a new direction. In the 1920’s, chess players began to hold to a new style of play, then called hypermodernism. In this […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: A friend helps speed things up….
January 30th, 2004 marked the Guinness world record for the largest networked chess computer. Using the internet to connect with 2070 computers, this networked conglomerate challenged Grand Master Peter Heine Nielsen, […]
Geany: the little IDE that could!
Recently, while working with some older equipment, I needed a lightweight java IDE to compile some java projects. I really wasn’t looking for something quite as big as eclipse or […]
Fool’s Mate Friday!
Occasionally, I do a theme, or idea, on a given day for a period of time. Currently, I have been spending quite a bit of time working on chess engines […]
Making an Android chess app….
Lately I’ve been amusing myself in my spare time by learning how to make a chess engine. I don’t want anyone to think that I came up with this on […]
Critical Velocity – an open source libGDX game that was crashing on small screens is now fixed!
Critical Velocity is a fun little open source arcade style scrolling game that I made after finishing my Android developer class. It was my first released game using the libGDX […]
Adding the ability to SatStat to copy the current location to the clipboard
If you like open source applications, and use GPS on your phone, you probably have heard of SatStat. It is a really great open source option for monitoring your location […]