Lately I’ve been reading up on various tools, methods, frameworks, etc. related to 3D programming in Java. Why Java? No real reason except that it is quite portable and somewhat straight forward to get started with. I’ve never actually done any real 3D development so this is a first! Check my my awesome purple square [...]

Here is a very simple client/server example coded in Perl. This is an extremely basic application – the goal was merely for me to learn how to use sockets in Perl. You can check out the code on github here: github.com/darkmuck/SimplePerlSockets. After you’ve downloaded the client and server files follow these instructions to test it [...]

I’ve just officially released my first Android application! It is an extremely simple, no-frills deals widget. The Newest Deal lite displays the latest deal in a home screen widget. This app has mainly served as a learning tool to get my hands wet with Android development.However, I do plan on releasing a full non-lite version [...]

Today marks the start of development on my first “official” Android application. I plan to release it to the Android Market once its ready to go. The app is called UpDog and it is intended to be a simple status sharing application. With UpDog you can find out what your friends are up to as [...]

I’ve begun messing around with Node.js in my spare time. I don’t really have a normal project idea in mind per se, but I have started to upload some of the examples and other small applications I’ve been creating. I’m still learning more about the Node.js JavaScript event-driven I/O framework and I will continue posting [...]

I’ve just recently created and posted a few things on my GitHub page (github.com/darkmuck) and one of the projects posted is VIMS (Voyager Incident Management System). VIMS is a simple incident management/help desk web application. I’ve decided that it might be worthwhile to open source this application as it’s been sitting dormant on my machine [...]

Is it a good idea to share your own personal R&D projects, ideas, and efforts freely with the world? Most of my ideas have probably already been done (better?) by someone else in the past, but my “R&D” projects/ideas serve their purpose of helping me learn new things along the way; and I thought what [...]

I’ve been messing around with rsync lately on one of my linux machines. I’ve been looking for a simple solution that would provide something similar to Apple’s Time Machine software. There are obviously some open source packages that could provide this functionality for me, but I just wanted something really simple that could be automated. [...]