Jamie Ly

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There are 15 posts tagged foss.

Mediawiki-Usage/Changes Storage and Visualizations

A coworker and I have been doing some work on visualizations of wiki updates. The server-side code, written in Ruby, stores changes from a media-wiki feed. I got a chance to use the Google Visualization API, which is really simple and useful for a wide variety of domains. He also turned me on to HAML, […]

in Libraries | 99 Words

Bubble Breaker Using Canvas!

I wanted to try out some canvas element functionality, given that I have a feeling it will steal a lot of Flash’s thunder. I whipped up a bubble-breaker game (the mechanic should be very familiar to you) in a few hours. Enjoy the demo! I may do a quick write up at a later point. […]

in Programming, Software | 97 Words

Drupal Org Chart – Graph Viz Update

I have updated the Google Code repository with updates to integrate GraphViz. It expects the PEAR GraphViz package to be installed.  To install it, issue command: If you’d rather not mess with PEAR, download the package, extract the class Image_GraphViz, and alter two two lines of code that depend on the PEAR::System package. It should […]

in Programming, Software | 126 Words

Graphiz Problem!

I was working on the Drupal OrgChart module tonight, specifically the rendering of the chart image via GraphViz, and I got stuck for at least an hour on a trifle! I planned to use the PEAR library for GraphViz (Image_GraphViz) and I wrote a function using the class it provides. I run the procedure and […]

in Libraries | 229 Words

Stikked Patch

We’ve been using Stikked for an internal pastebin. The current version on Google Code has a few bugs. I modified this code to fix two problems specifically: The Download Code link was not working properly The Short URL functionality was not working, as Snipr had deprecated the version of the API that the program was […]

in Software | 692 Words

Tron Bot

I spent a few hours cooking up an entry for this Tron Bot AI Competition. The starter packages they provided made it really easy to enter. I created an entry in python. The competition page is: //csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/ The strategy for my bot: I tried to implement painter’s flood fill per Wikipedia. This worked okay and […]

in Programming | 203 Words

Stikker

Some coworkers and I have been working on Stikker, a cli interface for the Stikked FOSS php pastebin. I haven’t used it for awhile, but we recently set it up at work to facilitate code sharing. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated recently and there are some things which are broken which I’ll need to address. […]

in Programming, Software | 69 Words

CiteThis! Update 0.17

I modified CiteThis! with the following features this weekend: Added a citation list box, where you can queue all your citations. Removed the custom citation box from the preferences pane (it was not of use anymore) Fixed APA citation format to include last accessed date. Added some handling of author/titles: If title includes the host […]

in Software | 140 Words

CiteThis! Update 0.16

I made an update at the request of someone who e-mailed me.  This post describes this version: Custom citation formatting broken! (Will be addressed in next update.) Added variable citations depending on what fields are specified Added custom date formatting based on datejs Added custom handling of Wikipedia citations https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7972

in Software | 56 Words

Update to CiteThis!

I updated my CiteThis! Firefox Extension with a few of the following features: Several updates including: Created preferences pane to allow selection of different reference styles Provided option for a customized citation string Implement some automatic author discovery for the page Improved performance by avoiding updates when hidden https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7972

in Programming, Software | 55 Words

CiteThis! Firefox Extension

This extension will add a bar below the status bar that you may use to assist you in citing the web page you are on. There are other extensions which are more full featured, but this is plain and simple for many needs. You can find the Mozilla page for this add-on at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7972.

in Software | 66 Words

Snake

Objective Eat all the red-colored blocks while avoiding the brown-colored barriers. Controls [Space] to (re)start the game [Arrow Key] to move [Home] to toggle barriers on/off (requires restart of game) Project page (Source and downloads) Moved to Github

in Programming, Software | 40 Words

Thirteen (Java)

I wrote this Java application for our CS GUI class. The class was pretty easy, but probably because I had been doing GUI-based programming since my last co-op at Duane Morris programming with Delphi. To see the program in action without downloading the file, see the videos below: ~1 min, Full Annotations ~20sec, No annotations […]

in Programming, Software | 93 Words

Reversi (Java)

This program was written for my first AI class at Drexel University. It features an AI opponent using the MiniMax algorithm. A Youtube video of the program in action is provided in case you do not want to download the executables: To run, download the zip file, unzip, and run: java OthelloApplication The game was […]

in Programming, Software | 78 Words

Tetris

Intro This game needs no introduction! Instructions left, right, down to move space to drop ctrl, up to rotate p to pause home to restart Requested features: Next block window Project page (Source and other downloads available) Youtube Clip of Gameplay:

in Programming, Software | 47 Words

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