Cocos2d iOS Game: Balloon Burst

My employer gives us a week off for the holidays, so I’d been trying to decide what to do with all of the time. Although I originally didn’t want to work on any programming projects, I wound up working on a few. One of them was inspired by a play of the iOS game Train […]

Haskell Poetry Parser

For our final project for CIS552: Advanced Programming, my partner and I implemented a poetry parser. The program identifies a body of text piped from STDIN as one of: haiku, rhyming poem (aba, or aabba), sonnet, or limerick. The project source is located at: https://github.com/jamiely/poetry-parser. The project involved using the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary found here, creating […]

OSX Lion Rubygame Install

I tried setting up Rubygame on Snow Leopard this time last year. I had many difficulties setting up SDL. I had some time to kill so I tried to set it up again, this time on my new MacBook Air running Lion. This old blog post from 2005 helped me this time around: //inquirylabs.com/blog2005/?p=21 to […]

Pattern Matching in Haskell

I’ve only been taking one class this semester. It’s an advanced programming course focusing on the functional language Haskell. While I was familiar with some functional concepts such as map, fold, and currying from using Javascript, and lazy-evaluation from dabbling with Clojure, this class has introduced a number of new, intriguing concepts. Not necessarily a […]

Sandwich Roulette

Over the weekend I had the idea to create an app which creates a random sandwich for you to get at Wawa. The result is the Sandwich Roulette! Here’s the source on Github.

Pathfinding – Hide and Seek Game

Intro For the last assignment for CIS564, we created a simple tag/hide-and-seek game using path-finding, and the behavioral steering from the last assignment. A* A* (A-star) is a path-finding algorithm which finds an optimal path between two nodes given a cost function which yields the distance from the start and a good heuristic estimating the […]

Wedding Cross-stitch

For Lisa’s sister’s wedding, we worked on a cross-stitch piece. Lisa chose the pattern and I mostly filled in areas.

Behavioral Animation Project

My most recent assignment for the Game Design class I’m taking is to implement some behavioral animation steering behaviors. The task was to implement steering behaviors such as: seek, flee, separation, avoid, follow the leader, and flocking. We were provided a framework featuring Lenguin characters and a menu like this: and entry points to call […]

Space Invaders Using Unity

I don’t have much time for a post, so I just wanted to post an assignment I completed for CIS 564 – Game Design, which was to implement a classic game using the Unity Game Engine. Source is available upon request, and here’s a link to the a web version (Unity Player is required). It […]

Second Semester Over

The second semester is over, and with that I am almost 1/3 of the way complete my Master’s degree in CS. I won’t lie, even though I only had one class, it’s been a difficult semester. Theory of Computation has kicked my ass all over the place, despite frequently attending office hours, and spending huge […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-08

Sir Ken Robinson discusses the diversity of human talent and the need for a revolution in learning //bit.ly/irNqnO #

VMWare IIS7 Woes

I spent the last hour trying to setup an IIS7 website running from a VMware Fusion shared folder. Specs: VMware Fusion 3.1.2 MacBook Pro OSX 10.6 Host Win7 Guest IIS 7.0 something I want to edit the website from OSX, so I added the directory as a shared folder. I tried various things to get […]

Broad Street Run Results 2011

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01

OH: tour guide tells guests about interlibrary loan. Cool story sis. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-24

I'm #reading The Art of Agile Development by James Shore //goodreads.com/review/show/162849567 # 3 of 5 stars to Pair Programming Illuminated by Laurie Williams //www.goodreads.com/review/show/162855874 #

Jamie Ly

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