Author: jdboyd

  • Video Game High-School, Episode 9 (spoiler alert)

    I enjoyed the Video Game High-School web series. There first episode can be found here. The series is 9 episodes long. The final one came out yesterday here. However, I don’t think that it ended as well as it could have. To summarize what happened in the final episode (limiting myself to what I’m going…

  • New Tech Meetup, Central PA

    My notes from the 06/04/2012 New Tech Meetup of Central PA Monthly Meetup. In general the Lancaster meetings last for an hour. They then adjourn to the nearby Iron Hill Brewery. I don’t usually go to the Hershey or Harrisburg meetings. AppNowGo – Eric Katherman Now called Knack (http://www.knackhq.com/). Recoded in Node/Mongo. iFormBuilder – Ryan…

  • Valentine’s Day

    I took the winter banner and cleaned up the code and added rotation (and the rotation interacts with the mouse), along with the obvious graphics changes, for Valentine’s Day. BTW, I love you Deb.

  • Winter Banner

    And now I have a new Winter themed banner. See the code and assets for it in my processing banners git repo here ( https://github.com/jd-boyd/processingjs-banners ). Processing.js can be found here This expands out into working with particles as objects, which I’ve done before, but is stretching further into the processing.js language further than I’ve…

  • Printing from Windows 7 to a Mac

    Use the MS Publisher Color Printer driver and connect via LPR/LPD.

  • Convert flac to mp3: flac -cd track.flack | lame -h – track.mp3

  • Frequency

    Last year I wrote 26 posts. That is only half the number I’d hoped for (52), especially since some where just one or two lines, but it isn’t as bad as I thought I was doing. I think part of what makes me feel that I neglect this so much is that some are multiple…

  • How I like to build for Windows

    I’ve seen a growing number of free software Windows programs where the recommended (or only) build procedure is to cross-build from Linux. I really like this idea. The latest I noticed that did this is the Clementine music player (which I’m rather excited about). This is a fork of amaroK, with the KDE parts stripped…

  • Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10

    When I upgraded to 11.04, I stuck with the Ubuntu Classic desktop. With 11.10, that didn’t look feasible anymore, so I bit the bullet to try and learn to cope with Unity. After the install, my first issues were: How to add a program to the Dash, specifically rxvt I use the terminal a lot,…

  • Stupid Cloud

    It seems that some companies are using cloud services to offer features I’ve wanted for a long time, but only tied to a cloud with a monthly or yearly fee. The latest and most irritating is iCloud. I see no reason that an iDevice shouldn’t be able to sync with a Mac by WiFi. Finally,…