What I have been working on this week…
Many of you noticed that Vasculus had some exciting news this week: an announcement of the next webapp. The other day I was typing some notes down when I realized that I would need the notes on my other computer. Then it hit me, what I need is a good sticky note-like program that saves in the cloud. So, this began my week voyage into searching for this perfect note taking app. I searched high and low, and none I looked at had quite the features I was looking for. Thus, Vasculus Stickies was born. Essentially, anyone will be able to log into his or her account and be able to access their “notebooks” from any computer. The users will be able to have multiple notebooks, such as “Work” and “Reminders”, and then save several sticky notes into each notebook, which is saved in the cloud on the Vasculus website. I am really excited to get it finished to show everyone, and use it myself.
Another thing I have been working on is my learning of HTML5. I am in the process of building two newer more complex examples. The first, titled simply “Ball”, started out as a ball bouncing around in a square, but then I decided to go bigger. This is what I have so far: Ball This example looks for when the user presses up or down and moves the paddles accordingly. Now, this is nowhere near a demonstration of Pong. However, this example shows moving an object, responding to keyboard input, basic object interaction, as well as more drawing functions.
The second, titled “SlingShot”, is a basic physics game that has the user pulling back a slingshot and aiming for a target. Right now, I am working some kinks out in the gravity and motion; however, you can view it here: SlingShot This example demonstrates more advance positioning, mouse inputs, object interaction, as well as basic physics. My next tackle will be more advanced HTML5 apps, such as card games.
Today, I leave you with a quote from Anonymous:
“All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.”
