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Whatever: JavaScript and Canvas, woo hoo!
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Sunday, October 24, 2010. JavaScript and Canvas, woo hoo! Standard introduces the Canvas element. We can now draw on a web page with plain JavaScript code. Isn't this exciting? I have a few old games which I wrote in Turbo Pascal (and Delphi) and I intend to convert them into JavaScript code and post them in my blog, so anyone can play them. Woo hoo! If your browser does support the canvas. That's my Black Triangle. Posted by Nick Dandoulakis. To Be a Pro is to Be Abused.
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Whatever: April 2010
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Thursday, April 29, 2010. Making and Breaking the Grid. Thoughts on Structure: An introduction. I read about the typographical grid (an organizing principle in graphic design) in the book About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design. Part II: Designing Behavior and Form. In my designs. Not only it arranges elements in more appealing, to human eye, positions but it also gives you a form to work with. To learn more about the grid. And then the Qt framework. You can eit...
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Whatever: August 2010
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Tuesday, August 17, 2010. 4 ways to close an application. I knew these ways. Clicking on the upper-right button aka the X. Command from the system menu (the upper-left icon on a window). And I just found out a fourth way, after so many years of using Windows. By double clicking the upper-left icon you execute the default command, which is the Close. Posted by Nick Dandoulakis. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 4 ways to close an application. To Be a Pro is to Be Abused.
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Whatever: Yet Another Tetris
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Monday, November 8, 2010. I just uploaded my version of the Tetris. Page to play it! In order to get familiar with the JavaScript language I have decided to implement a couple of games. Tetris. Was the number one on my list. Minesweeper. Will be the next one. I've tested my code on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 Professional. The following browsers run the game fine:. Firefox v4.0 Beta 6. Google Chrome 7.0. Safari 5.0.2. Posted by Nick Dandoulakis. To Be a Pro is to Be Abused.
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Whatever: Games
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Use the arrow keys to control the tetromino. No canvas support - oops! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What I’ve been reading lately, part 12. See also previous and subsequent posts in this series.] ALL THINGS CONSIDERED — G. K. CHESTERTON Ridiculously, I can’t remember a single thing about this . Linear regression is one of the most basic, and yet most useful approaches for predicting a single quantitative (real-valued) variable given any number o. To Be a Pro is to Be Abused.
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Whatever: About
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. My name is Nick Dandoulakis and I'm a software developer. This blog is my personal omnipresent knowledge base. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What I’ve been reading lately, part 12. See also previous and subsequent posts in this series.] ALL THINGS CONSIDERED — G. K. CHESTERTON Ridiculously, I can’t remember a single thing about this . The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation. To Be a Pro is to Be Abused. A Modest Proposal: Dueling 3D Printer Board Game.
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Whatever: November 2010
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Monday, November 8, 2010. I just uploaded my version of the Tetris. Page to play it! In order to get familiar with the JavaScript language I have decided to implement a couple of games. Tetris. Was the number one on my list. Minesweeper. Will be the next one. I've tested my code on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 Professional. The following browsers run the game fine:. Firefox v4.0 Beta 6. Google Chrome 7.0. Safari 5.0.2. Posted by Nick Dandoulakis. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Whatever: October 2010
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Sunday, October 24, 2010. JavaScript and Canvas, woo hoo! Standard introduces the Canvas element. We can now draw on a web page with plain JavaScript code. Isn't this exciting? I have a few old games which I wrote in Turbo Pascal (and Delphi) and I intend to convert them into JavaScript code and post them in my blog, so anyone can play them. Woo hoo! If your browser does support the canvas. That's my Black Triangle. Posted by Nick Dandoulakis. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Whatever: Tic-tac-toe, best move to start?
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Tic-tac-toe, best move to start? Game has one simple rule: the player who succeeds in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row, in a 3x3 grid, wins the game. So what's the best move to start? Well, I don't know. But I can use a computer to get an answer. I lied. I do know. The tools I've used:. The computer played 10000 "random" games and saved them in a database. And what's the more defensive. Cell 4) causes f...
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Whatever: June 2010
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Don't count on me; I'm chaotic. Sunday, June 13, 2010. Can't log in Stack Overflow? My favorite browser is Firefox. And this post is about modifying Firefox cookies. Geeky solution, I know! At my work, various URLs are blocked. For example, I can use Google as my main search engine, but I cannot sign in Google home page. Thus, many of the Google services are inaccessible, including my OpenID. So, I can't use my OpenID to log in my Stack Overflow. Cookie exists, then bingo! On Windows XP, Firefox. Now, if...
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