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Sprite Page Generator Script

Sat, 06/24/2017 - 19:19
running man matrix

Google Chrome 54 introduced the ability to take a full screenshot of a webpage in April 2017. This by itself is pretty cool. But, I happened to be working on some game code and wanted to build a simple sprite sheet. I found a program, but it appears that sprite sheets are normally built to fit the content on to the sheet as best as possible. That makes sense, but I wanted something where the location of the images was organized into columns. This way I could easily calculate the frames for animation. So I wrote my own little program to automate the process.

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2017 Festival of Arts

Sun, 05/28/2017 - 22:31

The Redlands Festival of Arts is larger than the Redlands Art Walk Festival, but its a bit more contemporary. Not as much my style. I did enjoy myself. I had a great pulled pork sandwich from a place in Mentone (I can't remember the name of it, but Mentone is so small, that anyone interested should surely be able to find it easily). I had a Ritual Red beer and listened to music. The music was either more folk or 1960's whereas the Art Walk is often more mixed,.. well more rock. I would have expected more of a heavy metal scene because of the car show down State Street.

Hangar 24 Airfest 2017

Sun, 05/28/2017 - 16:54
Hangar 24 Airfest

Hangar 24 is a local brewery here in Redland's California. Their beer is, ...(well, in my opinion,...its, "okay"). But, the people are always nice and I like the yearly air-show. There is a small municipal airport about 2 miles outside of town.

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Eventbrite Multi-Event Ticket Module

Fri, 05/12/2017 - 11:25

I was asked to add the ability to purchase Eventbrite tickets from a website using the Eventbrite ticket widget. The problem is that the customer had a number of events over the course of several months and I knew they would have several more over the years. The Eventbrite widget is complete, but you would need to copy the code for each event. This could be a little tedious, and it didn't seem as elegant having a ton of these ticket iframes loaded into one page.This seemed like an opportunity to create a simple program to automate everything.

GIT Exhibition

Sun, 05/07/2017 - 18:20
GIT

 "Versioning" is a pretty neat idea. I am not sure of the history of Subversion or Mercurial. But I know that GIT came about because Linus Torvalds..."needed" a version tool. So he wrote one. I find myself doing that all the time.I have a ton of little tools I write for this and that. I don't post even a portion of them. Certainly not the one I use regularly. I enjoy Open Source, but there is something to be said about security.

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