A Collection of Programming Writings

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• Using Gamepads and Joysticks in JavaScript

  Let's get some games written!

• Websockets: Writing the Server

  Part 3 in the series: writing the server in NodeJS.

• Websockets: Writing the Client

  Part 2 in the series: writing the client-side JavaScript.

• Intro to WebSockets

  An overview of WebSockets, with a goal of writing a simple WebSockets-based chat client and server.

• Writing a NodeJS webserver

  An exploration into building an HTTP server in NodeJS, and a look into what a webserver is, anyway.

• Transforming numbers

  A little numerical diversion, changing things to other things.

• Writing a jQuery plugin to create scrolling regions in HTML

  How to make a scrolling pane in HTML/CSS; in particular, how to wrap it all in a jQuery plugin for easy reuse.

• HTML canvas scratcher revisited

  An exercise in refactoring code from being closely tied to a page to being less closely tied. This is based on the previous scratcher code.

• Computing π with Chudnovsky and GMP

  Crank out as many digits of π as you desire! Limited only by your imagination! Crank out your own modest π in the browser, too! (Limited by 64-bit IEEE-754.)

• Object Pools

  Featuring goats!

• Image Processing Convolutions

  How to use convolution matrices for common image filters.

• Drag and Drop

  Learn how it's done, and code your own.

• JavaScript inheritance with Prototypes
• m4 Macros and CSS

  Use the unholy m4 macro processor with CSS. Or not.

• HTML canvas globalCompositeOperation

  Simulate a scratcher or scratch-off in-browser using HTML.

• Parallel Programming with OpenMP

  Intro that includes a link to my OpenMP-enabled Mandelbrot set generator.

• The Mandelbrot Set

  Includes cheesy little online explorer app.

• Minimax

  Lookahead AI, just like what powers the WOPR

• Adobe AIR

  Very very short getting-started document.

• Image Interlacing
• HTML5 Canvas Part II: Pixel Manipulation
• HTML5 Canvas Introduction
• Function Pointers and Cooperative Multitasking

  Just like Grandma used to multitask.

• Fuzz Testing

  Super-Superrrrr... oh forget it.

• Object Oriented Thinking, Part II
• Digital Sound

  Generate some waveforms!

• Pointers in C Part I: Basics

  It's really not that bad.

• Recursion
• The Observer Pattern

  Things happen. Your code observes them. What could be more exciting?

• The Monte Carlo Method for Game AI

  Beat your computer at Connect-4.

• Getting Started with Flash Development

  You can do it with free tools on the command line.

• Arch vs. Slackware, a friendly comparison
• Object Oriented Thinking, Part I
• Dijkstra's Shortest Path
• Parsing XML Streams with SAX

  No need to parse that whole DOM—just handle tags as they show up.

• Of Thunderbird and Usenet

  For old NNTP froods.

• Collection of interesting links

  No longer maintained, but here for reference.

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