Forever Odd

I got the urge to do some programming over the holidays and since one of my ideas was for a card game I thought I would create a deck of regular playing cards that could be used for playing any card game which uses a regular deck. Basically the deck includes all 52 cards plus [...]

If you were surfing my site today you may have noticed that the look and feel of the site was changing frequently.  This was in preperation for another page on my website.  Today I decided it was time to change the layout of my WP pages a bit to make more room.  Thus I took [...]

Essentially what the game consists of is you enter the size of your maze as an integer n (ie: 10) and then it generates a random maze of size nxn (ie: 10×10) which can be different for each nxn matrix you generate. Do to time restraints I wasn’t able to implement the A* search like [...]

For one of my classes a project was to write two programs, one of which uses the document object model (DOM) API to parse an XML file and one which uses the Simple API for XML (SAX) API.  The programs are just tiny and do not dod anything fancy.  Basically just breaks down the content of the XML files into [...]

Pathfinder is all about finding a path between point A and point B.  The GUI portion, provided for us, is sectioned off into a grid of ‘tiny’ squares where two are colored turquoise (set by programmer), in my case one on the mid left and the other on the mid right side of the grid.  You start [...]

This idea came to me one day while I was sitting in my math class waiting for it to start.  I had arrived quite early so I cracked out my PDA and started playing solitaire.  Then I got to thinking, wouldn’t it be neat to create my own card game in which I could make [...]

Unfortunately this isn’t anything new, but I would like to create my own text editor, that can do the basics with some enhancements.  The following is what I am thinking of initially:

 open and saving files
 cut
copy
paste
undo
word wrap
font choices (maybe)
syntax highlighting (if I can figure out how to implement) for Java, C, HTML, PHP, XML
word count
current line
find and [...]

The following could probably easily be considered three ideas in one, but because the protocol idea seems to ‘bridge’ the other two I decided on an all-inclusive post.
I would like to write my own application-layer protocol that would allow me transfer the data, whether it be text (for chat) or something else relevant to my application(s). 
The following idea [...]

I read somewhere once that for ideas you should look to what monotonous tasks you can automate, which is how this idea started to formulate.  A co-worker, Bill, and I are putting in multiple trixbox based phone systems and are coming across allot of tweaks as we go that need to be pushed across multiple servers.   By [...]

A while back I was surfing the Internet for a few days, in search of a way to package my Java application to make it executable (ideally on multiple operating systems).  I am able to make it an executable jar file, however, this did not solve wanting to have the documentation installed (well optional) with the program itself.
I [...]