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- December 6th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Im Around
Just a quick post (will delete) to let you know that I’m still around. I will be posting again in the coming days! No related posts.
- November 25th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Happy Turkey Day
Want to wish everyone a late night Happy Thanksgiving! I was lucky enough to attend two meals =] Related posts:Do all 90’s computer hackers rollerblade?Happy Memorial Day 2009What are the best si…
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Code Justin is BACK!
Welcome back to Code Justin! It’s been about a month since my blog was hacked. I still haven’t heard from the hosting company so any hope of recovering old blog comments is now gone. The good…
- November 17th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Site is not ready YET
I’m trying to repost all my old articles but it is very time consuming so I will be doing it off and on through out the week. The blog is not “live” YET, will be soon.
- October 8th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
500 Comments Strong
One thing I dislike about blogging is the comment spam. After I added captcha it cut back some but not all of it. So I hand filter most of the comments posted to my blog and read everyone before I…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
500 Comments Strong
It’s been a few months since the last blog ‘goal’ was hit which was 100 readers. I happen to glance over at my comment total last night and seen I was at 499 approved comments so I figured I w…
- October 6th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
When should you use C -programming language-?
As you might have known from my last post I got a little C pocket reference book. Though there are not any real examples/tutorials it does provide short descriptions for the basic principles, so I…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
When should you use C -programming language-?
As you might have known from my last post I got a little C pocket reference book. Though there are not any real examples/tutorials it does provide short descriptions for the basic principles, so I…
- October 5th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Got 3 O’Reilly Pocket Reference Books
Since DZone has connections with O’Reilly, a popular technical book publisher, I requested a few small reference books for review. Well I just got them in today and so far I’m impressed.…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Got 3 O’Reilly Pocket Reference Books
Since DZone has connections with O’Reilly, a popular technical book publisher, I requested a few small reference books for review. Well I just got them in today and so far I’m impressed. I hap…
- September 26th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
How hard do you work on low paying freelance projects?
Over the past few weeks I have been doing some little freelance jobs and one of the things that surprises me is how unpredictable a job can be. Due to my low reputation on freelancing sites I have o…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
How hard do you work on low paying freelance projects?
Over the past few weeks I have been doing some little freelance jobs and one of the things that surprises me is how unpredictable a job can be. Due to my low reputation on freelancing sites I have o…
- September 22nd, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
When do programming books lose value?
Programming books seem to hold little value after a few years on the market. There are some exceptions to this like ‘C Programming Language‘ which I just seen on Barnes & Noble shelv…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
When do programming books lose value?
Programming books seem to hold little value after a few years on the market. There are some exceptions to this like ‘C Programming Language‘ which I just seen on Barnes & Noble shelves for o…
- September 17th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
- September 9th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
If you had a year of free time to develop your own application, what would it be?
It has been a few posts since I talked about my programming status so today I will go over my current thoughts on where I’m at with programming and my plans for the future. I haven’t been doing mu…
- September 4th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Have a Great Labor Day Weekend!
I happen to find an old Computer Science book yesterday. If I get bored enough I might crack it open and check it out. It’s called “Computer Science - An Overview” from 1988. I…
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Have a Great Labor Day Weekend!
I happen to find an old Computer Science book yesterday. If I get bored enough I might crack it open and check it out. It’s called “Computer Science – An Overview” from 1988. I would pos…
- September 3rd, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
What does your workspace look like?
From a request by one of my readers I’m starting a post to find out what everyone’s workspace looks like. I happen to have a recent picture of my workspace which is now clean (unlike the…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
If you had a year of free time to develop your own application, what would it be?
It has been a few posts since I talked about my programming status so today I will go over my current thoughts on where I’m at with programming and my plans for the future. I haven’t been doing mu…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
What does your workspace look like?
From a request by one of my readers I’m starting a post to find out what everyone’s workspace looks like. I happen to have a recent picture of my workspace which is now clean (unlike the photo).…
- September 1st, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Say Hello to Opera 10!
Opera Software today unveiled the final version of Opera 10. In a world of ordinary Web browsers, Opera 10 stands out from the crowd with innovative new features wrapped in an elegant, fresh interface…
- August 30th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Token Caverns Game
Will be adding more later don’t worry, the movement keys are the arrow keys but like I said I will add a description and what not to the game in a little bit. I will also have a movie of my de…
- August 28th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
My AS3 Game Framework Code for Ludum Dare 15
Though not planned I decided to join the Ludum Dare #15 Contest and to abide by the rules I’m freely handing out my starting source code. It is a very basic (and maybe even buggy) Actionscri…
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
What are some tips for a new programmer?
I thought it would be nice to start a list of tips for new programmers. I will start off with saying that my personal tip to someone that is new to programming is to start low-level and small. I f…
- August 27th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
What is your favorite programming book?
Looking back on some of my old posts I see that many of my first posts seemed to attract a lot of attention and stir up some conversation. One of my most popular post was “What was your first…
- August 26th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Is profit a factor for your programming projects?
Something I find dictating all my recent programming project ideas is money. To give you a little background on my ‘issue’ I will start with the simple fact that I’m trying to make…
- August 25th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Thinking about trying a multiplayer flash game
I’m considering starting a multiplayer flash project. I looked into socket servers but they are pretty darn expensive and documentation for actionscript 3 is lacking. I’m thinking about…
- August 20th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Working on platform engine
Just wanted to let you guys know that I’m working on a platform engine in flash right now and I should have something to show in a few days.
- August 16th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Suals Quest Episode 1: The Cloud King - Flash RPG
I finished up my game for the RPGDX 48 hour game contest. For those that don’t know it’s a competition to see who can create the “best” Side-Scrolling RPG game within two day…
- August 14th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Entering the 48 hour game compo this weekend
I’m entering the RPGDX side scrolling 48-hour rpg contest this weekend. I have been working on a simple engine in flash for a few weeks off and on. The engine isn’t even close to compl…
- August 13th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Would you pay a few for high quality programming video tutorials?
I feel that there is a serious lack of high quality programming video tutorials. I’m considering venturing into creating a beginners programming video tutorial series. I think that it would help n…
- August 10th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Interview with Large Animal Games about O3D
I got a chance to talk to the guys at Large Animal Games about O3D. They are one of the first game studios to produce a game (Infinite Journey) using O3D. O3D is an open source JavaScript API create…
- August 9th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
A REAL Wall of Text
I found a pretty cool web “app” today. Someone posted on reddit a site in which people can go and type text “real-time”. It’s actually pretty darn cool and at the mom…
- August 8th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
A seriously good Super Mario Follow AI
I have been seeing videos pop up for Mario AI this week for the Mario AI Contest. I haven’t seen them all but out of the ones I have seen the video below shows a very impressive AI.
- August 7th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
RPGDX Has Announced Their Summer 48 Hour RPG Contest
Rpgdx has announced a CRPG (Computer Role-Playing Game) contest. This time the theme is a side scrolling rpg. Contestants will have 48 hours to create a side scrolling rpg. The contest starts Augus…
- August 5th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
My first flash movie clip
I was debating whether or not to post my progress so far since I don’t think I’ve made much progress. I have mainly been trying to get the basic actionscript commands down. From what I…
- August 3rd, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Venturing into Flash (Actionscript 3.0) Game Development
Last week I was pondering what all “things” I could learn next. I’m no J2ME wiz but I do feel I have coded enough to know the bare basics and realize now that I should have listened to people gi…
- August 1st, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Code Rush The Movie - Documentary about Mozilla (Firefox)
You can watch Code Rush for free right below. Code Rush is a documentary about Mozilla during the Netscape days and them pushing till the dead line to get the code ready to be open sourced. ItR…
- July 29th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Django 1.1 Has Been Released!
I posted this earlier on DZone. Django 1.1 has just been released after nearly a year of development. The release has brought along some new features, bug fixes and security updates. For the most…
- July 28th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
RIM Released Enhanced and New BlackBerry Tools for Web Developers
I came across another interesting story today that I wrote about on DZone. Research In Motion (RIM) announced today new and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry smartphones. T…
- July 27th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
My Mother’s Birthday
I figured I would post since I haven’t in a few days. I have been replying to everyone’s comments though. As you might have noticed by the title today is my mother’s birthday. As for my pro…
- July 24th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Motorola Announces Accelerated Development on Android
I happen to post some interesting news today on DZone that I thought I would share with you guys. Today Motorola announced the launch of advanced Android development resources through MOTODEV, includ…
- July 23rd, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
J2ME Mobile Development Series 10 - Loosing Ambition
As I progress further with this game I’m finding times that I really don’t care to even work on the game. My overall ambition for this game is really spotty and sometimes I don’t even care to t…
- July 21st, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
J2ME Mobile Development Series 9 - Player Equipment Slots
I’m not sure where to start when it comes to reporting on the new game changes. Since most of the changes are non-graphical I will be explaining the changes in the video below. As requested I will…
- July 19th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Got myself an original imac
I’m going to start working on the game again today but I thought I would mention that someone gave me an original imac yesterday at my graduation party. The computer is in GREAT shape becuase w…
- July 18th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
Got my Graduation Party today
I probably wont be working on the game too much today because I’m having my graduation party. You can expect the next post to be tomorrow or Monday. If you feel genrious there is a donate butt…
- July 16th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
J2ME Mobile Development Series 8 - Basic Combat
Fight! While working on the item system I sort of realized that I should do the basic combat mechanics first. So I got the basics of the item system done then I moved on to creating the enemy class a…
- July 15th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
J2ME Mobile Development Series 7 - Adding Items
Hey guys I’m still hard at work on the inventory system but I have finally gotten the basics done the way I wanted. Below is a brief video show casing a rough example of the inventory system so far…
- July 11th, 2009
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CodeJustin has posted a new entry on: Programming News and Daily Discussions and Career Blog
J2ME Mobile Development Series 6 - Adding Inventory
Adding Inventory Sorry for the delay in today’s post. We had a bad storm come in so the internet was down most of the day. Yesterday I got world collision detection done which you can view a short…
