For a very long time, I've been trying, with no success, to find a way to get MP4 videos - like those on Twitter and Imgur - to play in Firefox on Windows XP ( Read more... )

Lately, I've been digging through some of my really old QuickBasic graphics experiments, and figuring out ways to convert some of the more interesting routines to JavaScript... (Because, dang, I was imaginative in the early 90s!)

I figure this trippy thing is especially worth sharing, as it's one of the more interesting results ( Read more... )

Regarding my experiments with generated sound in JavaScript, I'm officially declaring them a failure, at least for now. HTML5 still seems like a good platform for programming simple games, but I'll be using an embedded Java applet for sound. (Of course, if I'm going to do that, I might as well just abandon HTML5 entirely and program the whole thing ( Read more... )

I've been experimenting with interactive animation with Canvas in Javascript lately...

[Here's a rather nifty thing I've managed to come up with so far...](It requires a fairly recent Firefox or Chrome. IE is not supported. Use something else? Good luck ( Read more... )

So it's apparently becoming possible for JavaScript in web browsers to enter full-screen mode, capture mouse motion (instead of just position), and even read gamepads ( Read more... )

And now, YouTube again.

Wanna see the sort of thing I was programming in QuickBasic in the mid-90s?

Another programming post. I'm mainly just musing for my own benefit here, but if you know stuff about Java, or know someone who'd know someone who'd know someone who'd know stuff, then some advice would be really really nice!

( Here's something I've been planning for years... )

Every time I think of something interesting to post here, I'm in the middle of working on something else and always forget it within a half-hour. I think I lost a few doozies that way ( Read more... )

See, I've got a decision to make ( Read more... )

Here's what I've decided so far:

My new programming language is going to be called "Vici". It rhymes with either "beachy" or "bitchy". It does -not- rhyme with "picky", "fishy", "easy", or "PC".

I described it earlier as a Java/JavaScript/QuickBasic/C/Perl hybrid. Time to get more specific about that:

( I need more of the kind of friend who'll understand the stuff under here... )