I’ve posted an updated version of the Orrery Torquescript library. Thanks for all of the great feedback. This new version has a few features: Fully Object Oriented, so you can add multiple orreries or systems Renders correct positions of the moon Has a datetime object to show the current universal epoch (date/time) Allows for different [...]

An interview with me was just posted on the GarageGames website. Garage Games is the company that makes the excellent Torque Game Engine and Torque 3D that I’ve posted a number of resources for. They were extremely kind and donated free copies of there software for s to use in making games for kids. The [...]

Happy 40th anniversary of the Moon landing! In honor of this auspicious occasion, I’m releasing a new “Orrery” resource for the Torque programming language. This isn’t yet a full-fledged game, rather just a library of celestial mechanics. I wrote the instructionsfor integrating within Torque 3D (which is currently in a closed Beta) — this is [...]

I love HTML5! HTML5 is brand new – just available on a few browsers. The new features, especially the use of local SQL databases and canvases bring so much power to web application development. Before, things that you needed a full web server are now doable all within the browser. I think this is a [...]

For the third post in this series, I’ll be showing how to do some pretty advanced iPhone applications using Mobile Safari and HTML5. These should all work on the latest OS3 that came out today. What’s special about these is that they are not actual “Apps” that get loaded to your phone from the app [...]

Thanks to a great suggestion by AbigailG, I’ve updated the Flickr Proxy I wrote to search on dates as well as tags. I’ve found this improves the quality of the images returned. Great idea, and the code is zipped up here. You can replace the ws.php into the previous Nearly1 example and you’ll get instant [...]

The new iPhone OS3.0 will be coming out soon, and one of my favorite features is updating Mobile Safari to have much better support for HTML5. HTML5 is still in draft, but basically makes HTML much smarter and more powerful – by adding features like GeoLocation, 3D-animations, Offline Storage, and more. This is the first [...]

For my birthday this year, a bunch of my coworkers bought me a Chumby! These cool little devices are a cross between an iPod Touch and a Beanbag. They are completely open source (hardware and software), and are very hackable. Here are a few resource that many people use: Chumby Tricks Chumby Forums One of [...]

Here is a collection of asp code I used across many projects.  It’s kind of a mix-mash of useful functions for ASP web page development.  I’m releasing it as open source – hopefully it’ll help any ASP web editors that can use it!  Sorry that I didn’t document it perfectly, but hopefully I left enough [...]

Here is a product that is used by a number of organizations to track their to-dos and deliverable. I wrote it back in 2002 (in two weeks), so I realize it’s not a fully polished product.  There have been over 10 installations of this, and I’ve found I just don’t have the time to help [...]

We went White Water Rafting this last weekend, and I thought I’d use the lack of internet in West Virginia to try to learn some video editing techniques. I remixed the video from our White Water Rafting trip and added some effects and transitions using iMovie.  It took me a while to get used to [...]