javascript

Programming by thegoldenmuleJanuary 14, 2012January 1, 2024

Itsy Examples

Click on the canvases to start + stop each particle emitter. You should probably stop each particle emitter rather than running all three at once. 🙂 new thegoldenmule.particle.ParticleEmitter([ new thegoldenmule.particle.Acceleration(0, -0.09), new thegoldenmule.particle.Velocity(3 * Math.PI / 4, 5 * Math.PI / 4, 1, 1), new thegoldenmule.particle.Position(0, 0, 10), new thegoldenmule.particle.Lifetime(1000, 2000), new thegoldenmule.particle.EmissionRateFade(50, 0, 100), […]

Programming by thegoldenmuleJanuary 11, 2012January 1, 2024

Itsy– a cute name for an otherwise uncaring particle system

There are probably plenty of HTML5 particle systems out there–just pay a visit to old man Google and you’ll see (I didn’t actually look because I was busy assuming I needed to write my own). The problem with all of those other particle systems is that I didn’t write them. Also they probably suck. Again […]

Programming by thegoldenmuleOctober 19, 2011January 1, 2024

Injecting SVN revision number via Maven

I am as Prometheus to you mere mavening mortals (except for how he was chained to a rock for all eternity while birds repeatedly ate his internal organs)! I have stolen fire from mighty Zeus and I now share it with you. Wear your flame retardant pants, ye knave–for we enter the wild world of […]

Programming by thegoldenmuleSeptember 14, 2011January 1, 2024

On the yumminess of NSSet and her applications to javascript

NSSet and her sexy daughter, NSMutableSet are officially my two favorite Cocoa classes. They have reached previously unmeasured levels of exquisitude. Sure, they have their faults, like being finite (I was hoping to prove the continuum hypothesis with NSSet–that’s a math joke), but what they lack in nonsensical mathematical jargon, they make up for in usefulitude. Enter Javascript. […]

Programming by thegoldenmuleSeptember 12, 2011January 1, 2024

An algorithm for suffix stripping…

Years ago when I programmed networking applications in Perl, I decided I had mastered regular expressions. I hadn’t, of course, but when your code looks like you accidentally opened up a .dll in notepad, you have to believe in something. Anyway, I wrote something called a vector space search engine (a topic I will probably […]

Programming by thegoldenmuleAugust 11, 2011January 1, 2024

How to Pwn Web-Apps (for web-app n00bs)

The web is, to put it mildly, a fierce and fickle mistress. As a development platform, it’s like trying to ride a horse-sized stick of margarine and your reins are made of light-sabers. Seriously, I’m talking to you Mozilla, Opera, Google, and whoever shoveled IE together–quit “innovating” (I guess some people use Safari too, and that’s […]

Programming by thegoldenmuleAugust 1, 2011January 1, 2024

Terramorphic Genesis Algorithms (or Terrain Generation)

My fascination with the game Scorched Earth knows no bounds. One might say I am the Mother of All Scorched Earth Fans. One of my earliest fascinations with the game (keep in mind, I was like 10) was that I could play for hours and hours and never play the same level twice. The ground […]

Programming by thegoldenmuleJuly 26, 2011January 1, 2024

Maven Just Needs Some Closure

Maven is certainly a creature of *inner* beauty. You should not under any circumstances look directly at her. I am unsure how her creators can tinker under her voluminous skirt and come out alive. Unfortunately I looked into her eyes. I made a promise to Maven–but I broke my word. Now she need Closure. Setting […]