Hundreds Chart Dev Diary

I've had this idea for a game to teach kids times tables since I finished Wordflight two years go. I got bogged down in my initial implementation using OpenGL ES and a few weeks ago I decided to re-boot the project with flat UI, vivid colours and UIDynamics to make things interesting.

This time the project took two solid weekends (and a few late nights), but I am pretty happy with how it turned out

If you are reading this and you live in Australia, make sure you check out goCatch next time you need to catch a taxi.

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Interactive Hundreds Charts

Four engaging math games to help children learn their multiplication tables.

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I love everything about Daredevil except the suit

I think I would be ok with keeping the black mask for the entire show. Ok. Maybe not. But I wish I liked the suit.

All these were awesome

I don't know what it is, but this just doesn't do it for me. Is the pointy eyebrows, the weird glowing eyes?

I really want to love it (I love this show) but, sadly, I can't do it.

Then again they could do a lot worse and still be better than this S&M monstrosity.

I can't think of that movie without picturing ol Matt on his hands and knees carefully drawing the DD logo on the subway with a can of Zippo fuel so he can dramatically light it up later. What the hell was that about?

Yep ... that was a really bad movie.

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Royal Randwick

Just another places API data glitch that I needed to write down somewhere. The auto complete results for "Royal Randwick" has the suburb as "Randwick" which is all good:

The corresponding detail response has "Sydney" as the locality. Accurate but imprecise ;)

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The Mauritius Campaign

Bruce Trinque, an esteemed member of the Gunroom, passed away last year. His family has given me permission to host an article he wrote many years ago which describes the history behind The Mauritius Command. It's and excellent read and I am honoured to include it on this site:

The Mauritius Campaign

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