Today’s update is pretty basic. Just cleaning up and filling in some blanks on my JustChess app. While I wont bore you with the whole commit, you are welcome to […]
JustNotes – when your notes are too long to read!
A user of my open source app, JustNotes, made an interesting observation… if your note gets too long, you can’t read it because it goes below the keyboard and you […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: 8 minute moves….
They say that the first complete chess playing program was written by Alex Bernstein in 1957. There were earlier renditions that could not play a complete game, but could solve […]
Edited Hourglass app manual time entry function.
Last week GitHub user spaetz brought forward a great idea for the Hourglass Android timer app that I made a while back. He recommended that the manual time entry be […]
What exactly constitutes as open source hardware (OSHW)?
There is a lot of buzz around the net on this idea of open source hardware (OSHW). However, the deeper that I look into it, the more tangled the web […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: the Just Chess Engine is just getting started…..
There are only 20 first moves in any standard game of chess. 20 choices, 20 options. Statistically, only 10 of those options regularly result in a win, or at worse, […]
Beginner chess engine has a new repository!
The beginner chess engine has a brand new repository so I can more accurately track issues. Before, it was a small part of a larger repository holding different programs, but […]
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 […]
MechDome reaches out to open source app developers
MechDome, the new way to convert your Android application into an iOS app. While still somewhat in development, MechDome has been making great strides in the field of app converters. […]
Critical Velocity! A fun side scrolling arcade style game.
After finishing my Android developer course, I decided to try to put my new found (fledgling) skills to use by making a game. It’s a classic side scroller with an […]