It’s been a long time since people whom I don’t know personally have read anything I’ve written. So to test my writing style again, I’ve entered a short story into a creative writing competition. Hopefully I’ll win something, but having…
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I’ve often considered how many programming lectures have random programming books for reference. It’s like a rite of passage and (thanks to Dupont) I can finally say I own a small collection of books of my own! C++, Delphi and…
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It’s been a while since I did anything in Java and since I haven’t used Netbeans to build a GUI before, I set about building a quick Java Swing styled, Game puzzle prototype (No 3d or OpenGL). I think I…
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I was chatting to one of my work colleagues today at work. He expressed how he felt an iphone app that “uses a photo of someone, compares it to your own and then suggests compatability” would be successful. So I…
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Been looking into H264 camera streams at work and its been a nightmare trying to make sense of everything. It’s been really difficult finding examples of anything to do with it and most of the code I’ve wrote has not…
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The RollaBingo! Game was written in C# and plays like an actual bingo game. It implements WPF, XAML and the singleton design pattern. Generating random lines of numbers; the player faces off against the computer to complete a row. The…
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So I’ve been testing the program I wrote as I go, I wasn’t expecting much, especially since my microphone has no quality at all. It’s been picking up my voice great … in fact … too great. I have it…
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Wrote a little program that does a couple of cool things on voice command when I’m on my xbox and the computers on. Shut down the computer, Play some pendulum or open teamspeak. I’ll put some voice recognition into the…
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After some useful hints and tips from my placement supervisor, I’ve been looking into the some examples of project ideas and developing my own. I’ve had a few ideas but there is a certain forerunner I think. I want a…
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I didn’t realise there was a good namespace for voice recognition! I’ll be having a play with that soon. Story keeps on growing! Coming up to narrative I’ve had plotted for a while!