Just now uploaded article on creating a simple physics game with Silverlight and Farseer Physics Engine.
Play the game online now : http://ashishware.com/SilverlightGameDemo.shtml
Read the article : http://ashishware.com/Silverlight_Physics.shtml
Last week I received my Freeduino board from http://www.bhasha.co.cc/ . I took almost a week after placing the order to get my hands on the board.
I am really impressed with the small size of the board . I had also ordered the component kit and I got started within hours. Within a couple of days of work I could create this:
http://ashishware.com/ardno_melody.shtml
I was able to figure out a good way of making my board my favourite melody. The describes how to compose ,test and fine tune a melody on your PC with a C# program , before uploading it to Arduino/Freeduino.
I have posted an article on implementing WebSocket based application with C#. WebSocket is new technology which enables "server push". Check out the article and code here:
http://ashishware.com/websocksample.shtml
Hope you like it and also please don't forget to participate in the poll on my website (its in the left site menu, towards bottom).
I must confess I started educating myself about LINQ pretty late. I was really pleased to see what all it can do. I discovered that all typed Datasets allowed LINQ based querying.
This means old methods of working with Datable object should be forgotten and LINQ should be used where ever possible. Time to get rid of all those ugly 'foreach' blocks .
Read my article on using LINQ and typed datasets here:
http://ashishware.com/DSLinqExample.shtml
9th May 1998 : My first PC arrives ( Pentium I, 200 Mhz, 32 MB RAM, 2.1 GB HDD). Spent time learning basics, playing games, exploring chip magazine CDs, exploring encyclopedias and listening to songs.
1999 (FYJC) : Learned FoxPro 2.5, continued timepass with my computer.
2000 (SYJC) : Mostly studies.
March-April(2000) : Read the book "VC++ 5 Special Edition", understood nothing. Started learning basic C++ and HTML.
July-August(2000) : Got admission to DMCOE Elex. Engg. Dad gifted me a 56K modem. Could only surf for 2 hours per week (telephone bills!). Learned javascripting,FTP, email. Also created my own website. Started learning EzWindowss (C++) and OOP concepts using C++.
2000-2001 (First Year Engg) : Learnt PASCAL, DOS,DHTML , EzWindows continues, CGI, made another website. Started learning FLTK (Fast Light Toolkit) in holidays after exams.
2001-2002 (Second Year Engg) : Studied FLTK in detail. C++ Continued. Learnt C, TC++ BGI as part of syllabus. Tried some x86 assembly language programing. Upgraded my PC ( P III 800 Mhz, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD). Worked on project related to "Interfacing computer controlled devices to Internet". It was presented at Terna Engg. College.
2002 (Holidays after Second Year) : Created a personal website. Learned Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). Finished learning FLTK.
2002 (Fourth Semester) : Wrote many programs using variety of GUI libraries (EzWindows,FLTK,Win32API) like MazeTRaveller, Rotato, JavascriptMaker,Blur,CryptoBitmap, HistoryRipper ...etc in C++. Did a paper presentation of my project at RAIT. Learned assembly language programing for 8085. Created my first AM radio using only 6 components (including battery and earphones). Started and finished learning Windows 32 API.
Phase I completed. Five years of delightful programing.
Ashish Patil
05/11/2002
Created a new blog on my website. The first post is about a small thing which developers like me overlook in their programs:
http://ashishware.com/myblog/?p=6
I have been searching for a tool that can resize images, add border and put a watermark on those. Most of my favourite tools, dont have this functionality the way I wanted. So I decide to write my own. It's a tiny C# console program that can process images in a batch. I use it to add border and copyright notice to images from my digital camera. The tool has fair bit of configurability. It can be downloaded here:
http://ashishware.com/ImgResize.shtml
Computer games these days are getting larger than life. The recent example is 'Spore' , a game which allows you to create different create and nurture your own creatures and nurture them through various phases of evolution. The whole concept in my opinion is wonderful. More can be read about the game here : http://www.spore.com/what/platforms#PC
Thought this game is yet to be released, it has a great feature that is already making it a hit. The 'Spore Creature Creator'. Just downloaded the trial version and started playing with it. And I have to say that this is 'one of the best' software, I have ever used.
Within minutes of downloading the software, I was able to create really funny new creatures and upload their videos on youtube !
The spore creator is a 'standalone' software which is available for around $10. This is a real steal, for the entertainment it provides. The creator is easy to use software which has three sections : create, paint and play. The day when our world would be ruled by game characters is not far !
Here are couple of videos I created:
The long missing feature is finally here. Added commenting functionality to my website. Now users can post comment for different articles on my website.
Working on a system to show comments entered by users, below their corresponding articles. This might take some time !
Still, I hope it becomes easier to readers of my site to communicate with me !
Today, I decided to try out the Moonlight plug-in for Firefox on Linux. It can be downloaded from this site : http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/.
It looks like there is no support for video and audio at this stage. I tested my silverlight applications on it. All my apps work with both Silverlight 1.x and 2.x, and are written using javascript. I was surprised with the results. All of them worked flawlessly on Linux. Below are the screenshots:
My 'Animated 3D Bar Graph Application':
http://ashishware.com/XAMLGraph3DDemo.shtml
Animated line graph application:
http://ashishware.com/SlvrGraphDemo.shtml
Photo Viewer
http://ashishware.com/Silverlight_example.shtml
Well done ..guys at http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight !
