Coobird’s Blocks is a Breakout-like game written in Java. It is designed to eventually be developed into an applet and application. The project page has been updated extensively as the development of the program has resumed.
Archive for April, 2008
Blocks Updates
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Computers are Useless
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Computers are Useless is a Java applet which generates random questions from a list of words. It is intended to be an entertaining program to bring out a few laughs by generating sentences that, most of the time, make no sense.
The motivation for creating the applet was a quote by the painter Pablo Picasso, which was “Computers are useless. They can only give answers.” Well, this applet will generate questions rather than answers. However, these are randomly generated sentences, so they can be quite entertaining. “Did he slice a clock?” “Do you question trees?” “Would she dream of pumpkins?” are among the 45000+ sentences that the applet generates.
The source code released under the modified BSD license and is available from the Computers are Useless page.
Dvaspi is Available for Download
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Coobird’s Data Viewing and Selecting Program with Integration (Dvaspi) is available for download. It is a free, open source Java application which will perform functions such as plotting data points from comma-separated value or tab-delimited text files, selecting the data points and copying to the clipboard, integrating with a baseline correction and many other functions.
Dvaspi is an open source software application licensed under the GNU General Public License. The source code and executable files are available for free.
The User Documentation lists the features and of the program along with other information which may be helpful in the use of the program.
This is the first release for Dvaspi and it is versioned at 0.5.
The program came to be from a merger of two separate utilities which were written to help the author with write-ups for his chemistry laboratory classes.