Welcome to my blog where I share my thoughts on the things I am passionate about. Ranging from community engagement, technology, or education, I leave my thoughts here and are open for forum and discussion.
Quite often I find my self talking about these rules during our weekly programming training classes (BDPA - HSCC).Luck and success is all around you. But you have to be open to it. There is a mindset to being lucky and being successful. The following are some rules that help me to be lucky and successful:
Read MoreI've been thinking about monster spawning. For those that might now know, this means to place a new enemy creature on a map. A few thoughts I have.
Read MoreThis article is a wrap up of a series of articles in which I walk through building a simple 2d top down map library. Below are the articles that build this library:
Read MoreFree Code. This comes directly from this site http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/css-round-corners.shtmlCreates rounded menus.You will need the following four images:
Read MoreIf your interested in learning or playing with PHP. Here is a short introduction to get you started.I expect that you have some basic programming skills already. (or the willpower to stay and play for a while)
Read MoreI've been playing around with Particle Emitters. Those are the cool little animations like star bursts and flowing bubbles that you see in games.
Read MoreCheck out the Particle Emitters Series to get the full picture.There are some basic functions that are needed for to make this work, they are as follows. We won't be modify this much except for the plotParticles function, where we have to change the if statements foreach of our effects. (I know there must be a clever way to do this, but I ran outta time)
Read MoreAnd here are the actual effects themselves. It generates the actual effect:
Read MoreThe following will create aflowing field of stars on a black background. Used the HTML5 Canvas element tocreate this effect:
Read MoreI think I already wrote thispost, but just in case. Here is how I implimented Autocomplete with jQuery:You will need jquery, I had a copy in mytemplates, you can find a copy at jquery.comYou will also need autocomplete.js, which I gotfrom here: https://github.com/devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete/tree/master/scripts
Read MoreI won't cover it all, but read this and stop wondering:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/439056/is-a-view-faster-than-a-simple-query(Remember you gotta use them correctly, and just cause you got a hammer don't make all problems into nails)Some highlights:
Read MoreOn August 7th, 2009, 3freshman and 2 sophomore students from Charlotte, NC faced a field ofprogrammers. They made up the youngest team of African American students thatcompeted in this years Annual BDPA High School ComputerCompetition. Regardless of age they had intentions of winning and theyrepresented Charlotte very well, placing in the top 10 teams nation wide.
Read MoreHello, my name is Markus Beamer. I have been nominated for the 2010 President Elect position within the local Charlotte chapter of the BDPA. I look forward to getting your help in securing this position.A little about my history with BDPA, I have been involved with the Charlotte chapter for the past 8 years, particularly with the High School Computer Competition (HSCC).
Read MoreFor those interested in the program, it's called BDPA HSCC program. It's affiliated with the national BDPA organization. I know of at least 20 different cities with successful programs.
Read MoreAs a Business Analyst, part of my job is translating technical terms to non-technical folks. The trick is to do it as simply as possible.
Read MoreThe more RAM a computer has the better it will be at multi-tasking. You see, each program and application you open will request an amount of RAM for its own exclusive use. This is ok, but at some point the computer has no more to give. Now, being a good tool, the machine does not stop working, but it does start running slower. And as you keep opening windows it will get slower and slower.
Read MoreThis is a recent presentation I gave on data marts and data warehousing techniques. This only scratches the surface and there are a loot of places to dive deeper.
Read MoreWe had the Charlotte BDPA 2011 kickoff meeting last night. I think it went very well. A little recap of what I remember off the top of my head.:
Read MoreI was sitting with some folks last week, after watching Wayne Hicks recieve recognition at the Microsoft Charlotte campus. We had a very interesting conversation which struck a cord with me. We were talking about the need to create a pipeline, a steady stream, of high quality minority talent. Specifically for companies looking to hire this talent.
Read MoreBDPA Charlotte had their monthly meeting in a new location last night. We were at Metrotek which is located across from Microsoft. It was one of the best meetings I've ever attended with our group.A fellow named Larry Edwards gave a presentation on Project Management and Six Sigma. How they are alike, how they are different and how they be leveraged for one another.
Read MoreFor those of you interested in knowing more about the BDPA organization, check out this great T.V. interview with its founder.
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