May 30, 2012
A few weeks ago I threw up a quick example about dynamically building Expandable Lists, using a simple app called TopicNotes. While it is simple, I like to tinker with it here and there to test features I'm unfamiliar with. About a week ago I was playing with TopicNotes and decided pretty quickly …
May 09, 2012
So I've been plugging away on the same laptop (Toshiba Satellite with Windows Vista) since about 2007. Yes, it's 5 years old, and has far outstripped the longevity of any other windows machine I've owned. That point aside, like a digital archaeologist, I came across some long forgotten directorie…
May 05, 2012
I've been programming as a hobby off and on for over 10 years. To this day, I consider myself an "advanced beginner." My gateway into programming began with C++ and a copy of Ian Parberry's Learn Computer Game Programming with DirectX 7.0 (a very, very good book in my opinion). When I started to…
May 01, 2012
One of the GUI elements I wanted for Titan Trivia was an expandable list for the Trivia question categories and subcategories. Easy enough to do, or so I thought. All the example code that I found online and in my texts were filled with pre-defined data. In other words, you had to know beforehand…
April 27, 2012
Several years ago, when I first started to explore the idea of game programming, I picked up a copy of Real Time Strategy Game Programming Using Direct X 6.0, by Mickey Kawick. I was fairly new to programming, and at the time RTSGP was a bit advanced for me in places, though I did pick up some rea…
April 25, 2012
My Google Drive isn't ready?
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25 April Update: Got my Drive today. All is well. Installed Drive Apps on the Xo…
April 24, 2012
I know I'm not the first person to make this comparison, but game design is very much like writing a book. You go through drafts, and in the beginning it's more important to focus on function than it is on presentation. Placeholder art can be invaluable even if it looks strange at the time. I wa…
April 22, 2012
Finally almost finished with Titan Trivia--the first stab at an Android game. The concept of the game was easy to come up with--it was something I really wanted for myself, and couldn't find an Android trivia game out there that offered what I wanted. I even put together a design document to gath…
April 11, 2012
After several months of on-again, off-again programming, I'm nearly finished with my first Android game--Titan Trivia. Titan Trivia started as a learning exercise--I had never programmed in Java before, and a trivia game seemed simple enough. Thankfully Java is similar enough to C++ that the tran…
April 06, 2011
Spent some time getting to know SQLite a bit better tonight. I have code that reads an xml file and drops the data into a sqlite database. That works fine, but what I needed was to be able to 1. Create the database from the XML prior to distribution (wasteful to send xml with the program only to …
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