The trouble with knights....
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In the continuing saga of making my own chess engine for Android, I've run into a peculiarity: If the king is in check, and the only move is a knight to capture the enemy to save the king …
As I continue to work on my java chess engine for Android, I've decided on a name for it, "beginner chess engine". I just posted the latest commits here:
https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/apps_small/commit/cda1b197c7d48b71f45b6ce001cfa6a9482a1ba0
It's not quite finished yet, and still needs more adjusting, changing, and tweaking. A …
Most people who are placing their apps on the Google Play Store are already aware of the Android version of the Play Console App. It's an app to monitor the distribution of your apps. At first I was a bit skeptical of why I would need this tool, but I …
A while back my brother gave me a SanDisk Sansa. It's a great little music player about the size of a zippo lighter. In and of itself, that would be pretty cool, but in this case he stepped it up a notch by not only giving me the gift, but …
I don't usually re-post something that someone else figured out, but it took me a long time to figure this out, so I thought I would share here.
The problem I had was relating to Android Studio and the emulator. I was using the emulator to test out various programs …
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 my own, I'm taking a tutorial through Youtube videos by a man called Logic Crazy. Be sure to check out …
I was really excited as an Android developer (probably an insult to real Android app makers, but I try...) when I heard about MechDome. If you read any of my earlier posts about MechDome, you can see that it is a really neat converter, which takes your finished APK, and …
As may be evident by the name of the blog, as well as my username, I live in Alaska. Alaska is a really big state. Alaska also has relatively poor cell phone coverage, in my opinion. Often when driving around, I will loose signal, drop calls, or even have no …
So, round one of building Android Oreo. Specifically giving an early try for SlimRoms and OmniRom, both of which have started an Oreo build system. Obviously, anything at this stage is a pre-alpha, more or less just a rebranded AOSP build. Still, it's fun to check it out and see …
Among other certifications, one of the certs that I needed to renew was my CompTIA Network+ exam. The current series is N10-006, and to take the test locally through Pearson View costs \$295! That is a hefty chunk of change. However, I need this certificate for my work, so I …