My current side project is an electronic TCG. Ideally this type of game should be a multiplayer game. Making a game multiplayer can be a daunting task. There are a lot of variables that you need to keep in mind when designing a multiplayer game. What protocol will you use for the game. Are you going to go with a client/server, peer to peer or...

I've always been more of a desktop programmer than a web programmer. I'd done a bit now and again but not as much as desktop. I decided a few months back to put more effort into moving to the web with the changes in technology. I looked at Flash and while it is great for gaming it just wasn't for me. My next thought was, I'm .NET...

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...