Posts tagged with ‘programming’

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Steer! An Experimental Canvas/Websocket Game
28 April, 2017
Left alone to look after a conference stand, Dan implements a browser-based video game prototype called Steer! in which...
DevCamp – have we really been doing this for 7 years?
11 April, 2016
For the last seven years, Dan's been attending Three Rings' annual DevCamp, a week-long hackathon especially for volunteers on...
Twee2 – Interactive Fiction Authoring for Geeks
22 October, 2015
To the complete lack of surprise of anybody who knows him, Dan found a single tiny flaw in a...
Calculating Pi (when you’re ill)
14 June, 2015
Dan's stuck in bed while he recovers following a medical issue. But while his body's recovering, he's been occupying...
Teaching Kids to Code – Why It Matters
28 September, 2014
Teaching children to program computers should be seen as being about making a new generation of computer programmers. It...
You Can’t Do It Alone!
13 August, 2014
Dan places his most-ambitious geocache to date: a cache that requires two people to find it - on different...
The Hardest Hangman
15 December, 2013
What's the hardest possible word to guess in Hangman? Many have wondered, but Dan felt the need to find...
New Volunteers for Three Rings
8 July, 2013
Following their weekend in Jersey, Dan, Ruth and JTA went off to Malvern to train three new Three Rings...
Craziest Internet Explorer Bug Ever?
6 November, 2012
Dan discovers a crazy little bug in Internet Explorer 8 and below, and complains loudly about it. Bloody IE.
Lucy’s Birthday
9 October, 2012
Dan's ended up really busy again, but he's found time to share a bug in a development version of...
KeePass for Opera
17 June, 2012
Dan develops a browser plugin for Opera to allow the KeePass Password Safe to work with Opera 12+, after...
On This Day In 2004
27 April, 2012
On this day in 2004, Dan finally handed in his dissertation on the subject of Three Rings. Since then,...
Moving Things Around With CSS Transitions
17 April, 2012
The "pop-up head" in the top-left hand corner of the page is powered entirely by CSS: no Javascript is...
On This Day In 2011
3 February, 2012
As part of the On This Day series, Dan looks back over the last year that he's been running...
On This Day In 2003
9 July, 2011
Dan looks back on the very first time he juggled flaming clubs, and wraps this up in the story...
Too Ruby
27 February, 2011
If the Ruby programming language were a chef, it would make the best tie dyed cakes in the world....
Free Deed Poll Generator
3 February, 2011
Generate yourself a legally-valid UK deed poll to change your name... completely free! A new, open-source project by Dan...
They Say that Programmers Never Die
17 January, 2011
Dan writes poetry using programming languages, and wonders whether or not any of the code he's written in his...
Parsing XML as JSON
13 October, 2010
This morning, I got an instant message from a programmer who’s getting deeply into their Ajax recently. The conversation...
The Modern Programmer’s Dictionary
21 September, 2010
In the field of software development, there’s always something new to learn. Whether it’s a new language, framework, API...
AbNib
22 July, 2003
I’m almost ready to launch AbNib (main site may be down during development, but try the temporary mirror), a...
Hawaii
5 July, 2003
I’m scared. Kit is researching the laws governing marriage in Hawaii, and I’m not exactly sure why. “Hey; you...
Back From Lancashire
30 June, 2003
Spent the last four days in Lancashire and elsewhere in the North of England, visiting my folks (among other...
Claire’s Back
23 June, 2003
=o) Last night was fun. After spending most of a day hacking into the BBC’s weather centre (I wanted...
Dreadful Deadlines
19 June, 2003
Just been working like a demon towards a 13:00 deadline this afternoon, delivering a piece of software to a...
Makes You Feel Stupid
13 June, 2003
Don’t you feel really stupid when you plan to go via somewhere on the way to somewhere else, and...
Scatmania Launched
10 June, 2003
Well; I finally did it. I finally got myself a weblog. After weeks of peer pressure by such friends...
New Site Preps For Launch
16 January, 2002
The new version of AvAngel.com is under full developmental swing… and within a week or two it’ll be uploaded....
Project AngelPlanet Publicly Announced
20 May, 2001
The boys behind AvAngel.com have got something new up their sleeves… it’ll be coming soon, and you can expect...
Secret Project
24 April, 2001
The boys behind AvAngel.com have got something new up their sleeves… it’ll be coming soon, and you can expect...