Something Good From A Mistake
I accidentally created a pattern that somewhat resembles a fractal in a bug making Battlezone a few days ago.
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Jeremy Aaron Heminger Systems Programmer / Web Developer Located in Southern California
Programming
Whoa - Accidental Fractal..."ish"
I was attempting to add a cracked windshield to the player tank in my Battlezone remake built in Javascript. I wanted to built the crack procedurally and it's "working". But it's not very believable as a cracked windshield just yet. I was able to add a pretty cool effect that shakes the screen but, the cracked windshield currently either resembles fractured rock or in many cases modern art.
Homepage Animation Block For Drupal 8
Many websites have an animation of some kind running on the homepage. My website is no exception however, I like to experiment with different animations and such and I am sure I will want to regularly swap them out. I could simply dump in a new file whenever I want to make a change but, I like to design things that are a little more elegant. Something that might be used by other people in the real world. So, I built this simple module.
Books and Authors Plugin
Our team was tasked with building a new website for a non-profit organization in Riverside for local authors known as the Inlandia Institute. The previous website was built on vanilla PHP with a custom CMS. The website had a few hundred authors and subsequently a few thousand associated books.
The CMS was limited and difficult to use and for this reason the owners had rarely used it.
My task was to:
Droplet Wordpress Plugin Framework
For a time I was working on an MLS plugin for a real estate website company and I had previously began grouping functions I would use regularly and classes, etc...
I decided to build a framework add-on for Wordpress. The result was a plugin I called Droplet. ( I was completely unaware of Drop-ins at the time ).
Curious Pondering - MYSQL And How It's Always Eventually Evaluated As A String
I was working recently on building an abstraction for IndexedDB in Javascript and as I was building I was thinking ahead about building queries. I have only just begun using the feature and so I haven't really delved into retrieving data as it refers to searching. Regardless, I was thinking about building a simple SQL type language. This is really impractical of course but, the thought crossed my mind for a second. It passed quickly mainly because I would be evaluating a string and accessing a database.
Simple Animation using SVG and Javascript
Just playing around with using SVG for web animation versus Canvas.
I see some interesting things built using Green Sock that I think I can reproduce myself.
Maybe I will add SVG support as an out-of-the-box feature in Wes Mantooth.
Some Coding Puzzle Exercises For Fun - Part 3 - Has Pair With Sum
This exercise is based on the solution found at Google Life's YouTube channel. Admittedly, I was pulling my hair out for a bit on this one.
The question asks the programmer to find an efficient way to find two numbers in a sequence that add up to a number.
Some Coding Puzzle Exercises For Fun - Part 2 - Find Non-Recurring Letters
This project was "a little" bit more difficult than the last project...but, not much. I have a feeling this could be done more efficiently however, I am not entirely sure how...I'll revisit this some other time.
Some Coding Puzzle Exercises For Fun - Part 1
So,..I'm just following some of those YouTube videos describing various Google job interview tech questions and decided to see if I could reproduce them myself.
Fro my own experience I know that these questions are generally less about actually getting the question correct as much as how a developer approaches a problem...What they know about coding in order to approach the problem and how to ask questions to approach the problem.
