Beej's Bit Bucket
⚡ Tech and Programming Fun
A Collection of Programming Writings
Items in bold have a bonus interactive toy!
- 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.
- Adobe AIR