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Thursday, 9:51 AM
December 24, 2009Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! Please check out the game I made as a present for my family. Yeah, I know it's Christmas Eve, but I may not have an opportunity to update this tomorrow.
Thursday, 6:00 PM
December 3, 2009Gravity Simulation Released
I just finished a 2D simulation of the solar-system. I believe it is user-friendly enough and functional enough to be released to the wild. It is to-scale, however it is not accurate as far as where they currently are in their orbits (they all start at either 0 or 180 degrees because I couldn't find the data on where they all were at a set point in the past). This simulation is based on newtonian physics; I didn't account for relativity. So their orbits will be a bit off. Also, because I can only have so many frames in a second, the simulation will start to trip up if you set the speed to around 10000 hours to a second.
That said, I still think it's pretty cool. I even included the moon.
Tuesday, 8:22 PM
November 24, 2009Marketing
I thought this was worthy of an update:
Feel free to copy this image as you like. Attribution (a link back to this site) would be appreciated but the message is more important than my popularity, I think.
Sunday, 11:53 AM
November 22, 2009Contacting Me
Bit of a repost: I just got 3 messages with no sender. I cannot reply to your questions/comments if you don't give me an email address.
Friday, 8:07 PM
November 13, 2009Personality Test
I've added an Introvert/Extrovert test to the programs section. This is actually a legitimate test I ported from my psychology class.
Thursday, 4:49 PM
November 5, 2009Minor Tweaks
I made the width of the website scale according to the user's moniter, and now you can click on the images of programs/games/movies to go to their pages (for convenience). I also plan to move the contact form to a more obvious place, as it's kind of hidden right now.
Thursday, 10:42 PM
October 1, 2009Contacting Me
When you contact me via the contact form (pull-down menu on the Home link), it is very hard for me to respond unless you tell me who's sending it. I'm not psychic. I plan to have a messageboard up soon where I can answer questions in a more convienent manner, but I have a few projects on the line at the moment that need to be finished first.
So yeah. Tell me your email if you want me to respond.
Post modified on 9/1/2009 at 10:47 PM
Saturday, 8:39 PM
September 19, 2009Demotivational Posters
I hath finished a program to make them. Yes, there already are some online. But this one's a desktop application. And it can generate them randomly given a title. And it's cooler. Linky.
Saturday, 10:58 PM
September 5, 2009QR Code
Neat.
Thursday, 7:00 PM
August 27, 2009Collision Detection
I've been working on code for more sophisticated collision detection between different shapes. It's coming along pretty well. The circles were tricky; I had to google for help.
Monday, 9:46 PM
August 24, 2009RSS Error
Apparently the dates were off. This should fix the older posts to be in the correct order.
Monday, 12:53 AM
August 24, 2009Contact Page Fixed
Just fixed the bug with the Contact page. Turns out the form was sending me the message; it was just pretending to crash. Odd. Anyways, that's fixed now.
Saturday, 1:01 AM
August 22, 2009Out with the old, In with the new!
As you may have noticed, the website has been redone. Completely. Because of this, News updates posted before this one will almost certainly contain broken links. Luckily, you can still find what you're looking for via the shiny new search box.
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August 22, 2009Post of Saturday July 25 (7/25/2009) at 6:09 PM
I've added a program called Manitext. It's a terminal for a scripting language that deals with string manipulation and searching and stuff with regexes. Yeah. There's a readme file that gives a bit more information. Oh, and I also included the source.
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August 22, 2009Post of Tuesday July 21 (7/21/2009) at 2:30 PM
I've decided to put up the sources to some of my games. If you use them please link back to abpotato.com and credit me. Remember, the licenses apply to the source code too, not just the program.
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday June 8 (6/8/2009) at 8:39 PM
Found this on icanhascheezburger =).
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August 22, 2009Post of Saturday May 23 (5/23/2009) at 11:31 AM
Been having more fun with GIMP...
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August 22, 2009Post of Friday April 10 (4/10/2009) at 1:44 PM
OrbGame5.9.zip: now with save game capabilities =)
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August 22, 2009Post of Friday April 10 (4/10/2009) at 11:40 AM
OrbGame5.8: Notice that it's no longer a demo =)
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August 22, 2009Post of Thursday April 9 (4/9/2009) at 1:40 PM
OrbGameDemo5.5.zip: yeah, I forgot to post 5.4. But here's 5.5, anyways.
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August 22, 2009Post of Wednesday April 8 (4/8/2009) at 11:16 AM
OrbGameDemo5.3.zip: You can now generate game files which contain multiple levels. A main menu is now present, along with credits and other important stuff.
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August 22, 2009Post of Tuesday April 7 (4/7/2009) at 9:28 PM
OrbGameDemo5.2.zip: added a text component to the level editor. Now you can include instructions, hints, and (best of all) taunts.
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday April 6 (4/6/2009) at 3:41 PM
Just fixed a bug in the first level; no change to the actual code of the game. OrbGameDemo5.1.zip.
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August 22, 2009Post of Sunday April 5 (4/5/2009) at 8:29 PM
Although much slower than it should be, the Orb Game is coming along. The game engine and editor are pretty much finished. Now I just need to add a main menu and actually make the rest of the levels. Here's a download.
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday March 16 (3/16/2009) at 5:45 PM
I've made another sign! Check out the signs page to see it.
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August 22, 2009Post of Wednesday March 11 (3/11/2009) at 9:26 PM
This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen: Mario Rick Roll.
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday February 16 (2/16/2009) at 8:06 PM
I'm working on a new game. It doesn't have an official title yet. Here's a preview: download.
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August 22, 2009Post of Tuesday February 10 (2/10/2009) at 9:10 PM
I cleaned up the guestbook and added a check to make sure the poster is human (or a very clever bot).
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August 22, 2009Post of Saturday February 7 (2/7/2009) at 6:50 PM
Raise the awareness of the need to obscure the existence of this!
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August 22, 2009Post of Sunday January 18 (1/18/2009) at 3:04 PM
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August 22, 2009Post of Saturday January 17 (1/17/2009) at 8:46 PM
I made the How Facebook Saved the World comic viewable without downloading it now. Hoorah.
On an unrelated topic, I found this amazing website for those geeky enough to enjoy talks/lectures on all kinds of topics (science, technology, whatever): TED.com.
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday January 12 (1/12/2009) at 5:46 PM
I think I'll add an RSS feed for this news page... once I figure out how :P.
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday January 5 (1/5/2009) at 9:19 PM
Tweaked the layout of the website a bit. Now it should look better on smaller screens and different browsers, although it still looks a little funky on IE 7. I declare IE 7 a substandard browser and urge everyone to go with either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday January 5 (1/5/2009) at 4:12 PM
Break's over, which means less time for coding :(.
Get Zeroes is now an applet.
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August 22, 2009Post of Sunday January 4 (1/4/2009) at 10:33 AM
Yay! The time works now! Hoorah for JavaScript.
I've uploaded a new program (Essay Checker), and I also turned the Word Searcher into an applet that runs online for your convenience.
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August 22, 2009Post of Friday January 2 (1/2/2009) at 7:39 PM
Happy New Year! I took of the time from this page because it wasn't accurate anyways.
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August 22, 2009Post of Thursday January 1 (1/1/2009) at 2:04 AM
I've given up on trying to correct the time to follow the user for now. English time is okay. At least it's not giving me negative times now.
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August 22, 2009Post of Wednesday December 31 (12/31/2008) at -5:11 AM
So I've made the Programs, Games, and Movies dynamically show the content using a database rather than being static html pages. Which just means that I can update them easier. Hoorah.
Hmm, my website seems to think that I posted this at -5 AM. I think there's a bug in my script....
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August 22, 2009Post of Tuesday December 30 (12/30/2008) at 3:37 PM
I've been working on setting up a database for the content on this site.
I've also been working on setting up user accounts (I don't know what these will be used for yet.)
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August 22, 2009Post of Monday December 29 (12/29/2008) at 10:04 AM
So I made this new news page, rather than having all the news on the home page. It should make updating easier for me.
I also made a new guestbook yesterday, from scratch this time, in case you didn't notice.
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