Update on the Android game
June 8, 2012 by ·
The idea of the game is like so.
Its war time. Our main character is a pigeon who has to complete missions that involve delivering messages. The pigeon will fly towards right side of the screen until it reaches the destination. In between there will be several obstacles like enemy pigeon, falcons/ hawks, anti aircraft attacks etc. The user has to control the pigeon to avoid getting touched by the obstacles.
Like I said in my previous post, the game will be using libgdx game framework. libgdx is an android game framework. First we got ourselves (my partner Ali and I), a copy of a game called Super Jumper made by the creator of libgdx. We modified it to move from bottom-up to left to right. For collision, we tried coding by ourselves. Then I found that there is a better alternative, Box2d. Box2d is a 2d physics engine which is available in different languages. [Read more…]
Working on an Android Game
February 26, 2012 by ·
Lately Ali and I are planning to work together on a simple free android game. We thought of working on IPhone first, considering the volume of users we could reach. But eventually, we could not resist the simpler Java language over the cryptic Objective C. We will think about porting to IPhone after the Android version actually gets completed.
We have found a very good game framework called Libgdx. The game will be a side scrolling, avoid the enemies style game that will use the touch and accelerometer together. [Read more…]
Progress Bar to display server’s script execution: using JQuery/JQueryUI
July 20, 2011 by ·
Until now, you have been opening a shell or terminal to execute your script, but now your boss wants to be able to execute the script, but he doesn’t know anything about CLI(command line interface) commands. So, what can you do? how about having a web interface that allows him to easily activate the script. Yes, that would work and its easy too. But if the script takes 5 min to complete, we don’t want to show a blank page during those 5 mins. It would be better if there was a progress bar that showed how much percentage of the script is completed. Today, we will learn to do just that, Create a progress bar to display server’s php script execution using JQuery and JQueryUI. [Read more…]
Adapter design pattern
January 15, 2011 by ·
Adapter pattern adapts a piece of code to work with another. In real world, consider a battery charger for your phone. If you went for vacation to a somewhere in Europe, your charger won’t fit into the wall outlet. You would need a piece that can wrap your that fits into the socket in Europe.
Adapter pattern is usually helpful to create new code that is compatible with old legacy code. Using adapter pattern the old code do not need to be changed to work with new code.
[Read more…]This batch file will lessen your sqlplus login frustration at zenit server.
September 23, 2010 by ·
If you are in DBS501 like me, you must be frustrated with sqlplus command. Why did they remove the good old isqlplus and instead put sqlplus. The problem with the sqlplus for most of us is because of connection problem.
If you haven’t modified the ora file to include host address for neptune, you must do that before proceeding any further. Here is the link
https://cs.senecac.on.ca/~nconkic/db-oracle11g.html
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