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I’ve never really been a huge javascript fan. I learned to program using an interpreted, weakly-typed language called BASIC. It was fun, interactive, stream-of-consciousness, creative, and a great way to learn the, um, basics. It was also pretty hard to write big, complicated programs in it. I happened to learn the language back in the [...]

AvalonLife is a pretty complete and full-featured implementation of John Conway’s Game of Life, which I created a couple of years ago as an experiment in WPF programming. I ended up writing a long feature on the creation of the program, which begins here. It has a ton of information on the background of the [...]

TextTable is a C# class that makes it easy to define tabular data formats and render them in fixed-width text. It started out as the answer to an email reporting requirement, and evolved into something fairly flexible. Here’s a screenshot of the output from the example program included in the archive, in which several TextTables [...]

GMemory is a Google-based image search and match game that takes its inspiration from the game of Memory that I used to play with my kids when they were young. The Memory game consists of a number of wooden tiles with images on one side. Each distinct image appears twice in the tile set. The [...]

The SilverDraw library is an update to my ColorTools and GradientEditor projects. It primarily contains the color pickers and gradient editors from those two assemblies, and provides a place for me to hang other classes as I develop them. I produced this in response to a request for access to the GradientEditor application, which I [...]

GSearch is a set of class libraries for searching Google from .NET 3.5 and Silverlight 2 managed code. GSearch uses the Google RESTful webservice API to execute searches and receive results, and supports the following search types: blogs, books, images, locations, news, patents, video, and web. GSearch consists of a core assembly, GSearch.Core.dll, that is [...]