http://www.abpotato.com/ Programs, Games, Code, and Humor en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:52:05 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:52:05 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html PHP + MySQL ferrettsyl@gmail.com ferrettsyl@gmail.com http://abpotato.com/ 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. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:51:40 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900357000170005100040 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Gravity Simulation Fri, 4 Dec 2009 2:0:46 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900337000020000000046 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 4:22:13 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900328000040002200011 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:53:41 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900325000190005300041 http://abpotato.com/ I've added an Introvert/Extrovert test to the programs section. This is actually a legitimate test I ported from my psychology class. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 4:7:4 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900317000040000700003 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 0:49:58 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900309000000004900057 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Fri, 2 Oct 2009 5:42:59 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900274000050004200053 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Sun, 20 Sep 2009 3:39:14 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900262000030003900013 http://abpotato.com/ Neat. Sun, 6 Sep 2009 5:58:35 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900248000050005800035 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 0:0:27 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900239000000000000026 http://abpotato.com/ Apparently the dates were off. This should fix the older posts to be in the correct order. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 2:46:29 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900236000020004600027 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 5:53:19 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900235000050005300018 http://abpotato.com/ 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2009 6:1:17 GMT http://abpotato.com/#0010900233000060000100017 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900205000230001000026 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900201000190003100020 http://abpotato.com/ Found this on icanhascheezburger =). http://abpotato.com/#0010900159000030004000017 http://abpotato.com/ Been having more fun with GIMP... http://abpotato.com/#0010900142000180003200006 http://abpotato.com/ OrbGame5.9.zip: now with save game capabilities =) http://abpotato.com/#0010900099000200004500012 http://abpotato.com/ OrbGame5.8: Notice that it's no longer a demo =) http://abpotato.com/#0010900099000180004000036 http://abpotato.com/ OrbGameDemo5.5.zip: yeah, I forgot to post 5.4. But here's 5.5, anyways. http://abpotato.com/#0010900098000200004000033 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900097000180001700046 http://abpotato.com/ OrbGameDemo5.2.zip: added a text component to the level editor. Now you can include instructions, hints, and (best of all) taunts. http://abpotato.com/#0010900097000040002900012 http://abpotato.com/ Just fixed a bug in the first level; no change to the actual code of the game. OrbGameDemo5.1.zip. http://abpotato.com/#0010900095000220004100036 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900095000030003100003 http://abpotato.com/ I've made another sign! Check out the signs page to see it. http://abpotato.com/#0010900075000000004500051 http://abpotato.com/ This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen: Mario Rick Roll. http://abpotato.com/#0010900070000040002600038 http://abpotato.com/ I'm working on a new game. It doesn't have an official title yet. Here's a preview: download. http://abpotato.com/#0010900047000040000700020 http://abpotato.com/ I cleaned up the guestbook and added a check to make sure the poster is human (or a very clever bot). http://abpotato.com/#0010900041000050001000059 http://abpotato.com/ Raise the awareness of the need to obscure the existence of this! http://abpotato.com/#0010900038000020005100033 http://abpotato.com/ How randomly geeky are you? http://abpotato.com/#0010900017000230000600027 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900017000040004600053 http://abpotato.com/ I think I'll add an RSS feed for this news page... once I figure out how :P. http://abpotato.com/#0010900012000010004600016 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900005000050001900015 http://abpotato.com/ Break's over, which means less time for coding :(. Get Zeroes is now an applet. http://abpotato.com/#0010900005000000001300011 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900003000180003300028 http://abpotato.com/ Happy New Year! I took of the time from this page because it wasn't accurate anyways. http://abpotato.com/#0010900001000190003900043 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010900000000020000400001 http://abpotato.com/ 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.... http://abpotato.com/#0010800365000030001100005 http://abpotato.com/ 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.) http://abpotato.com/#0010800364000230003700009 http://abpotato.com/ 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. http://abpotato.com/#0010800363000220001100046