I have been given the opportunity to review another book, Murach’s HTML5 and CSS3. This book was another excellent book by Murach and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It helped me get better acquainted with the HTML5 and CSS3 as I was still working with XHTML for my web pages and wanted to move to HTML5.

I’ve been continuing work on my Java tile engine. It is continuing to evolve as is my Java knowledge. I’ve been moving to an object-oriented tile engine. There is now a map class that represents a tile map and a layer class that represents a layer of the map since I’m making a layered tile engine. At the moment there are two layers: the base layer...

I've been continuing my exploration of Java. I've come to find out I've got a bad C# accent. I guess it is due to the amount of time I've spent with C# over the past few years. I got core Java down quickly enough, being so similar to the other C-style languages and C# in particular. Now comes the daunting class of familiarizing...

From time to time I’ve explored Java in the past. With my knowledge of C-style languages it was easy enough to pick up the syntax. If you’ve seen one C-style language you can pretty easily understand most of any others. The hard part is learning to think in Java. All languages have their own mind set, way of doing things. Learning to think in that...

About a week ago I posted a topic in the Game Programming forum about a game programming challenge at Game Institute...