20111031 Macabre Pool

This is the result of my fascination with skeletons* and me wanting to learn about Box2D in Javascript. Since everything is randomised, you might get two big skeletons or a big one and a small one, or two small ones. They sometimes look like they are alive, with spasms and all, while they jump around [...]

20111001 “Unsolicited letters in the 1800s”, available for the Kindle

More good news: I just had my Unsolicited letters in the 1800s book published in Amazon! Which means you can get your own ebook copy almost instantly, instead of having to wait for the print edition to be delivered to your home. Since it’s got a lot of images, it weighs quite a lot for [...]

20110930 RegExpert & its postmortem

I finally published my first game ever! It’s called RegExpert, and if you like regular expressions, you’ll love it! If you don’t, you’ll learn to love them both! Also, since every game must have one, I’ve also written a lengthy postmortem. It’s the first game postmortem I ever write too, so I’m not sure if [...]

20110718 aafm – the Android ADB file manager

Complaining is cheap–acting is for the brave ones! So I took the brave, proactive path and wrote aafm: an ADB based file manager, for those of us which can’t get MTP to work, no matter how many voodoo rituals we perform in front of the Sacred Droid Puppet beforehand. I’ve made sure that the project’s [...]

20110614 Android’s activity stack and pressing HOME

I was having a huge issue with the application I’m working on. The idea is to have a MainActivity and a GameActivity; when you’re in MainActivity and click on a certain button, you get GameActivity. So far so good. The problem was that if I pressed HOME and then clicked again on the application launcher, [...]