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Customizing OhMyZSH! prompt

Fun-N-Games, Software Development

For quite some time now there has been a bit of pressure on terminal users and developers to move away from bash to zsh or (Z Shell). Recently it seems to have gone to the next level with Mac OSX defaulting to zsh shell. Of course, you can continue to use bash but clearly, zsh […]

Custom Bash Prompt in Intellij

Software Development bash, intellij

Recently I wanted to change the prompt in the terminal when using IntelliJ. I have a development prompt that I like to use whenever I am developing and wanted IntelliJ to also use it. If you just point the terminal in IntelliJ to a script that sets your prompt, it will not work. It simply […]

Game Design Document Editor built with PySimpleGUI

Fun-N-Games, Game Development, Software Development Game Design Document, python

When you are working with Python, from time to time you find that you want to have a graphical user interface (GUI) to replace the command line so that it’s easier for users of your software to work with it. For a long time, this has been a difficult task. The main issue is that […]

Minimax In Action!

AI, Game Development, Software Development

About the Game Euchre is a card game played with two teams of two players. In this post, I will start creating a version of the game in Unity. In order for the game to function as a single player game, I am also going to be creating multiple AI players to play with. AI […]

Common Cartridge testing with an Open Source LMS (Canvas)

Education and Technology, Software Development Open Source

Overview Building content that will be utilized by a Learning Management System (LMS) requires a development environment that has a running LMS. Preferably if you are going to build content using an open source mechanism, you should have as many LMSs as you can, in order to ensure that your content can play on all of […]

Lunar Eclipse Photography

Fun-N-Games

The lunar eclipse for January 2019 inspired me to try to capture it with a camera. So just for fun, I thought I might talk about my experience with shooting the moon pics so that other’s who might be inspired can learn from my mistakes. Shooting at full auto Before beginning this experiment, I did think it […]

Enable a Mobile View of WordPress

Software Development

Now that we moved to WordPress, the first plugin I have added is called WPTouch. The idea is to auto-format the site for mobile devices, and for me, the most important mobile device is the iPhone. Brave New Code was started in 2007, and their main focus is a website design/development firm, but the seem to […]

Angular 2 CLI Updated to 1.0

Software Development

The Angular 2 CLI has been updated to 1.0! This new release is a big deal because we are finally out of the beta. I use the Angular 2 CLI tool every day so I wanted to update and then update my projects as quick as possible. So, if you are asking “what is Angular 2 CLI”; […]

Pandemic Educational Resources

Education and Technology

I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the educational companies who have taken steps to make free content available to all the students who are at home sheltering in place. I’m so happy that my company was able to make resources available, but I’m also very pleased that so many others were […]

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Education and Technology, Software Development

I was inspired by a free handout at my local public library, it was a “1000 books before kindergarten” workbook. The idea is that you track each book that you read with your children and try to read 1000 books before they begin kindergarten.To begin with, this seems like a lofty goal! 1000 books are […]