Development Soup

I am posting this article about a the first game I ever wrote in java. This game, titled “space bubbles”, is an arcade style game with a striking similarity to the arcade classic asteroids. Although the game play is quite harsh, and it has several bugs, it may help someone who has just started programming to learn. The game itself can be played in a browser here

Here is the complete source code.

You may notice that each time a message window is created, the applet loses focus. This can be easily fixed, however I have no intention of doing any more additions to the code. If anyone out there would like to take my code and improve on it, please by all means, go for it.

Hello all, and thanks for checking out my first journal entry. I first must comment on the ease of setting up wordpress. I had heard good things about wordpress, and was eager to get it up and running on the server. I am truly amazed by how easy it was to set up. I wanted to write my blog system from scratch ( and nearly did) when I realized that I really wanted the ability for people out there to add comments about what I would be writing about. My system was written in php so adding this functionality would not be a huge technical leap. Then out of the blue, my boss asked me to evaluate wordpress. It must be fate, because I had it downloaded for no more than 2 minutes and it was up and running on my test server at work. With plenty of themes to chose from, and installation as easy as copying a directory, it really was a no-brainer for me. Looking forward to using this tool to create some helpful articles.