Canvas Paint

Here is another small JS project that I built quite a few years ago.  It was basically just an exploration of the canvas tag, which was somewhat new at the time.  I called it "Canvas Paint".  It allows you to draw on the canvas.  You can change the color and width of the brush by changing the numbers in the boxes and clicking either "Set Color" or "Set Width".

Life Game

Previously I posted about a game (really a simulation) that I made several years ago.  I called it the Fish Game.  A few years later I made another very similar simulation that I called "Life Game".

It is similar, but quite a bit more complex, and I think somewhat better written code.  In this version there are three life forms; fish, bugs, and plants.  The fish eat the bugs.  The bugs eat the plants.  The plants gain energy each frame as if they are getting energy from the sun.  Each life form has a fairly large set of properties.  These are copied to the individual life forms as they are created.

Custom Thumbnails for Magento 2 Products

I recently migrated a site from Magento 1 to Magento 2.  The product image thumbnails work differently in Magento 2.  In Magento 2 they use a JS library called Fotorama.  It has several options that can be modified in the view.xml if you have a custom theme setup.  However, none of the thumbnail options match the way that the thumbnails work in Magento 1, and my client wanted them to look more like the old version.

Fish Game

Many years ago, probably about twelve to fifteen, I was working on building a custom e-commerce system using Adobe Coldfusion.  I was a young developer and so were the rest of the developers I worked with.  Non of us were really qualified to build such a complex system, but we didn't know that, so we did it anyway.  It ended up working fine for the customers we had.  I'm sure I would not be happy with most of the code if I saw it today.

Playing Local Network Media on a Chromecast with Python

I have several Chromecast devices in my house.  Recently I was playing around with the Python module pychromecast.  It has given me a much better understanding of what the Chromecast does.  The module allows you to find devices on your network and play videos or other media on the device.