Michael Cook’s Place

In the last few days I’ve read a good chunk of the documentation on Palm’s WebOS, and started making a little program. While the documentation is technically thorough, it’s poorly laid out and the example leaves something to be desired.
You can find everything at Palm’s developer site. I downloaded what I thought I needed, then [...]

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I did some more Clojure tinkering on Friday and wrote a little program based on an algorithm on Wikipedia to generate a Sierpinski’s triangle. You can find it on my Clojure page. It was surprisingly easy.

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I’ve been kind of busy lately. I’ve discovered and started playing with Clojure, a Lisp implementation for Java. The best guide I’ve found so far is Clojure – Functional Programming for the JVM. I’ve made three small programs (really two), which you can learn about on my Clojure page.
The other thing I’ve been doing is [...]

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Gravitoids has been updated again, this time to version 0.6. Some big angle and gravity calculation bugs and weird corner cases were found and fixed.

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I am continuing to work on Gravitoids. While working a little while ago I found one of the problems that’s been in the code. When the force of gravity on an object was set, it was actually being done as an addition. So instead of the correct way of doing things (pseudo code):
object.forceOfGravity = calculatedForceOfGravity
I [...]

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