Online, privacy barely exists. Every page, email, and instant message can be intercepted, manipulated, and/or logged. The millions of Internet users browsing the web at this very moment may be surprised to find that their online information is not secure. The Internet’s greatest strength in accessibility is its greatest weakness in security. Web servers have [...]
15. August 2008.
Web Standards
As many Flash Developers have heard, ECMAScript 4 has died. I’m not going to go into the details of the decision, although you can most likely blame Microsoft and their 80% browser stronghold on the web. Nevertheless, the decision has raised significant issues around the web regarding web standards, and whether or not they have [...]
2. July 2008.
AS3 EventManager Class: removeAllListeners
I heard about a class that Grant Skinner wrote called Janitor that was supposed to help keep track of listeners, but I couldn’t find it. Consequently, I wrote my own “EventManager” class for a gaming project I’m working on which keeps track of Event listeners in a project. As all Actionscript 3 developers know, one [...]
10. April 2008.
Jacobi Algorithm in AS3
Recently, my “Calculus for Computer Science” teacher assigned the following problem. So to complete this assignment, I decided to use Actionscript 3 and Flash. A friend of mine and I at Georgia Tech are developing a complex open source matrix library called as3matrix, and we were planning on implementing Jacobi to find eigenvectors of a [...]
29. December 2007.
Object Oriented Programming without a Computer
Artists see the world as a canvas. They represent environments, objects, and abstractions with shapes, shades, and colors. Pride and honor can be shown in a sculpture, or love may be represented with red colors and heart shapes. Architects envision the world as a blueprint; objects have structure and forces acting upon them from other [...]
5. November 2007.
SmarterChild and ELIZA
This year, only three entries were submitted in the annual Loebner Prize Competition. The prestigious $100,000 dollar prize has yet to be won, and the competition is the only place where it has a chance to be awarded. If a team develops a chatterbot that can fool judges into thinking they are communicating with a [...]