Saturday, January 30, 2010

Game of Life update

I finished refactoring the code, and have uploaded the new version to the Bitbucket repository. There isn't much difference in functionality, but the design is waaay better. Also, I made a pretty epic wiki with instructions for downloading and running the program. Hopefully it is clear, but if not just yell at me (here, there, or via email) and I'll fix it. It's hard when you're the developer to figure out what directions there need to be. It is all easy-peasy to me! ;)

I'm hoping to make it so the user can choose the background and foreground colors; that may get implemented tonight, unless I get too tired.

The Game of Life

I made a Java version of Conway's Game of Life. You can download it in all it's glory from my repository on Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/nfmccrina/gameoflife/overview/. The executable file is in the Downloads tab. It requires the Java runtime from Sun (of course). You can get this from java.com, but really, doesn't everybody already have it? What, you don't? For shame!

I'm currently refactoring the code base, since I had thrown it all together haphazardly and it was a bit of a mess. You can download the source code from Bitbucket too, if you want.

First Post: Rationale

Though I am still extremely suspicious of any and all forms of "computing in the cloud", it is sometimes nice to have some form of web presence. While not having a Myspace, Facebook, or Twitter account does give one warm feelings of superiority, the fact remains that it is lonely at the top. So, this is a sort of compromise. A place I can interact with people while not succumbing to the annoyances of social networking sites.