Showing posts with label 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Day 2 at Agile2010
Today was another satisfying day at the conference in sunny (I did see the sun this morning) Orlando. I started the day off with 11 other agilists going for a morning run on the paths and walkways around the Disney complex followed by a great breakfast. The catering at the Dolphin has been fantastic so far.
The first of two notable sessions that I attended was called "Effective Questions for an Agile Coach." The two presenters Arto and Sami from Reaktor were great and cleverly crafted the table discussions so that we would fall into common coaching traps and then helped demonstrate better alternatives. Here is a brief overview of some of the ideas from the presentation:
- By giving advice you are creating motivation from the outside. You need to ask effective questions to let them figure it out for themselves
- The four acceptance tests for good coaching questions are a) leads to exploration, b) aim at descriptive answers, c) avoids judgement and d) avoids unproductive states of mind
- Avoid the question why. Try converting the question into a What, When, How Much or How many. For example, instead of Why, ask What benefit did you expect to receive?
- When trying to help the team solve a problem, follow the GROW model. Grow: first, find their goal. Reality: Second, ask questions to help them describe the current state. Options: Third, ask questions to find at least 3 options. Simply ask how would you solve this. What: Finally, ask questions to find agreement on a path forward.
Some other random thoughts:
- I attended an www.innovationgames.com seminar. After playing The Product Tree game and Scream, I want to explore how to introduce these games in my own projects.
- Dave Thomas was funny and poignant as the keynote speaker although I did wonder if his talk was targeted more at those not at the conference than those of us who have already taken the pill. They videotaped his talk and I suggest looking for it in the next few weeks.
- I took some advice from other conference veterans and walked out of a session that was covering topics I was already familiar with. As a result, I had some great conversations about retrospectives and the intersection of agile and church.
- The soft skill sessions at this conference have been great, but I wonder if there is room for more advanced developer topics.
- Played some beach volleyball at the end of the day with 2 other Canadians and a Swede. Are there any Americans at this conference?
More tomorrow... looking forward to the open jam on ATDD/BDD wording.
Read more »
The first of two notable sessions that I attended was called "Effective Questions for an Agile Coach." The two presenters Arto and Sami from Reaktor were great and cleverly crafted the table discussions so that we would fall into common coaching traps and then helped demonstrate better alternatives. Here is a brief overview of some of the ideas from the presentation:
- By giving advice you are creating motivation from the outside. You need to ask effective questions to let them figure it out for themselves
- The four acceptance tests for good coaching questions are a) leads to exploration, b) aim at descriptive answers, c) avoids judgement and d) avoids unproductive states of mind
- Avoid the question why. Try converting the question into a What, When, How Much or How many. For example, instead of Why, ask What benefit did you expect to receive?
- When trying to help the team solve a problem, follow the GROW model. Grow: first, find their goal. Reality: Second, ask questions to help them describe the current state. Options: Third, ask questions to find at least 3 options. Simply ask how would you solve this. What: Finally, ask questions to find agreement on a path forward.
Some other random thoughts:
- I attended an www.innovationgames.com seminar. After playing The Product Tree game and Scream, I want to explore how to introduce these games in my own projects.
- Dave Thomas was funny and poignant as the keynote speaker although I did wonder if his talk was targeted more at those not at the conference than those of us who have already taken the pill. They videotaped his talk and I suggest looking for it in the next few weeks.
- I took some advice from other conference veterans and walked out of a session that was covering topics I was already familiar with. As a result, I had some great conversations about retrospectives and the intersection of agile and church.
- The soft skill sessions at this conference have been great, but I wonder if there is room for more advanced developer topics.
- Played some beach volleyball at the end of the day with 2 other Canadians and a Swede. Are there any Americans at this conference?
More tomorrow... looking forward to the open jam on ATDD/BDD wording.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Insert Vimeo Youtube videos in PowerPoint slides with authorSTERAM Desktop 2 0
authorSTREAM the online presentation sharing platform has released the second version of their free PowerPoint add-in called authorSTREAM Desktop. As compared to authorSTREAM Desktop 1.0 which was launched almost two years back, the latest version lets you search and insert videos from Vimeo in addition to YouTube. It also lets you search images from Flickr and Bing right from within the PowerPoint.
Most amazing thing which authorSTREAM has done is its advance search and filters. authorSTREAM not only allows you to search images on different parameters like color, size or type but also on the basis of licensing information. You can search creative commons stuff from Flickr and that too without leaving the PowerPoint. authorSTREAM also inserts the attribution text in the slides along with the images to help users get rid of some of the copyright worries.You can also create a collection of selected images or videos to be used later in the slides.
authorSTREAM Desktop with the addition of more video and image search APIs should help PowerPoint users create effective presentation with just few clicks.
Most amazing thing which authorSTREAM has done is its advance search and filters. authorSTREAM not only allows you to search images on different parameters like color, size or type but also on the basis of licensing information. You can search creative commons stuff from Flickr and that too without leaving the PowerPoint. authorSTREAM also inserts the attribution text in the slides along with the images to help users get rid of some of the copyright worries.You can also create a collection of selected images or videos to be used later in the slides.
authorSTREAM Desktop with the addition of more video and image search APIs should help PowerPoint users create effective presentation with just few clicks.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Creating a Pentomino game using AS3 Part 2
Today well add automatic sizing and positioning to our grid.
I plan for my game to have multiple levels (maps), and each map may differ in size and shape. Since some maps can be rather big and take a lot of space, when smaller maps take much less space, there is a problem with positioning the grid properly so that most of the available screen is used.
I am going to reserve some space for a toolbar panel, which will later contain the available shapes and other game info. My game dimensions right now are 720x460. The panel will reserve 200 pixels in width, including the space left to the right screen edge. That means the width of the panel will be 195 pixels, its height - 450 pixels, because Im leaving 5 pixels for the top, left and bottom margins. Keeping that in mind, the X and Y coordinates of the panel would be 520, 5 pixels.
This leaves us 520x460 free space. Inside of this rectangle, well put our grid. However, once again, remember that Im leaving 5 pixel margins for top, bottom, left and right, so the actual rectangle size is 510x450. Thats the size that we want to fit our grid in, making it take up as much space as possible.
Go to constructor of pentomino_game() class and call a calculateGrid() function before adding gridShape to stage:
First thing we do in the function is calculate how many columns and rows there are:
Write down a memo to remember the numbers were working with:
Now, using the columns value we can calculate how wide a cell should be to be able to fit in the 510 width rectangle.
Then we calculate the real width and height of the grid in pixels:
Now we can set gridStartX value, which is the left margin of the grid. Id set it to 5, but its important to remember that gridCellWidth is a rounded value, it might have been a fraction and if we just set gridStartX to 5, the right marin might be bigger or smaller than 5. Thats why we simply substract width from 520 and divide it by 2, to have the same margin from left and right. This might not always be 5 (it will be around 5 pixels then), but it will look nice since the margins are the same.
Now, we check if height fits in the 450 high rectangle. If so, then we set gridStartY using the same method we set gridStartX:
If height is greater than or equals 450, we need to recalculate the whole thing, but set the height first instead of the width. Then we calculate height and width values again, and set gridStartX and gridStartY just like before:
Full function:
The results can be observed when you use differently sized maps:
Full code:
Thanks for reading!
Read more »
I plan for my game to have multiple levels (maps), and each map may differ in size and shape. Since some maps can be rather big and take a lot of space, when smaller maps take much less space, there is a problem with positioning the grid properly so that most of the available screen is used.
I am going to reserve some space for a toolbar panel, which will later contain the available shapes and other game info. My game dimensions right now are 720x460. The panel will reserve 200 pixels in width, including the space left to the right screen edge. That means the width of the panel will be 195 pixels, its height - 450 pixels, because Im leaving 5 pixels for the top, left and bottom margins. Keeping that in mind, the X and Y coordinates of the panel would be 520, 5 pixels.
This leaves us 520x460 free space. Inside of this rectangle, well put our grid. However, once again, remember that Im leaving 5 pixel margins for top, bottom, left and right, so the actual rectangle size is 510x450. Thats the size that we want to fit our grid in, making it take up as much space as possible.
Go to constructor of pentomino_game() class and call a calculateGrid() function before adding gridShape to stage:
public function pentomino_game()
{
// default map
mapGrid = [
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
];
// grid settings
calculateGrid();
addChild(gridShape);
gridShape.x = gridStartX;
gridShape.y = gridStartY;
// draw tiles
drawGrid();
}
First thing we do in the function is calculate how many columns and rows there are:
var columns:int = mapGrid[0].length;
var rows:int = mapGrid.length;
Write down a memo to remember the numbers were working with:
// free size: 520x460
// fit in: 510x450
Now, using the columns value we can calculate how wide a cell should be to be able to fit in the 510 width rectangle.
// calculate width of a cell:
gridCellWidth = Math.round(510 / columns);
Then we calculate the real width and height of the grid in pixels:
var width:int = columns * gridCellWidth;
var height:int = rows * gridCellWidth;
Now we can set gridStartX value, which is the left margin of the grid. Id set it to 5, but its important to remember that gridCellWidth is a rounded value, it might have been a fraction and if we just set gridStartX to 5, the right marin might be bigger or smaller than 5. Thats why we simply substract width from 520 and divide it by 2, to have the same margin from left and right. This might not always be 5 (it will be around 5 pixels then), but it will look nice since the margins are the same.
// calculate side margin
gridStartX = (520 - width) / 2;
Now, we check if height fits in the 450 high rectangle. If so, then we set gridStartY using the same method we set gridStartX:
if (height < 450) {
gridStartY = (450 - height) / 2;
}
If height is greater than or equals 450, we need to recalculate the whole thing, but set the height first instead of the width. Then we calculate height and width values again, and set gridStartX and gridStartY just like before:
if (height >= 450) {
gridCellWidth = Math.round(450 / rows);
height = rows * gridCellWidth;
width = columns * gridCellWidth;
gridStartY = (460 - height) / 2;
gridStartX = (520 - width) / 2;
}
Full function:
private function calculateGrid():void {
var columns:int = mapGrid[0].length;
var rows:int = mapGrid.length;
// free size: 520x460
// fit in: 510x450
// calculate width of a cell:
gridCellWidth = Math.round(510 / columns);
var width:int = columns * gridCellWidth;
var height:int = rows * gridCellWidth;
// calculate side margin
gridStartX = (520 - width) / 2;
if (height < 450) {
gridStartY = (450 - height) / 2;
}
if (height >= 450) {
gridCellWidth = Math.round(450 / rows);
height = rows * gridCellWidth;
width = columns * gridCellWidth;
gridStartY = (460 - height) / 2;
gridStartX = (520 - width) / 2;
}
}
The results can be observed when you use differently sized maps:
Full code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
/**
* Open-source pentomino game engine
* @author Kirill Poletaev
*/
public class pentomino_game extends MovieClip
{
private var mapGrid:Array = [];
private var gridShape:Sprite = new Sprite();
private var gridStartX:int;
private var gridStartY:int;
private var gridCellWidth:int;
public function pentomino_game()
{
// default map
mapGrid = [
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
];
// grid settings
calculateGrid();
addChild(gridShape);
gridShape.x = gridStartX;
gridShape.y = gridStartY;
// draw tiles
drawGrid();
}
private function calculateGrid():void {
var columns:int = mapGrid[0].length;
var rows:int = mapGrid.length;
// free size: 520x460
// fit in: 510x450
// calculate width of a cell:
gridCellWidth = Math.round(510 / columns);
var width:int = columns * gridCellWidth;
var height:int = rows * gridCellWidth;
// calculate side margin
gridStartX = (520 - width) / 2;
if (height < 450) {
gridStartY = (450 - height) / 2;
}
if (height >= 450) {
gridCellWidth = Math.round(450 / rows);
height = rows * gridCellWidth;
width = columns * gridCellWidth;
gridStartY = (460 - height) / 2;
gridStartX = (520 - width) / 2;
}
}
private function drawGrid():void {
gridShape.graphics.clear();
var width:int = mapGrid[0].length;
var height:int = mapGrid.length;
var i:int;
var u:int;
// draw background
for (i = 0; i < height; i++) {
for (u = 0; u < width; u++) {
if (mapGrid[i][u] == 1) drawCell(u, i, 0xffffff, 1, 0x999999);
}
}
}
private function drawCell(width:int, height:int, fill:uint, thick:Number, line:uint):void {
gridShape.graphics.beginFill(fill);
gridShape.graphics.lineStyle(thick, line);
gridShape.graphics.drawRect(width * gridCellWidth, height * gridCellWidth, gridCellWidth, gridCellWidth);
}
}
}
Thanks for reading!
Monday, January 19, 2015
Onda vx610w 7” luxury version official Android 2 3 v2 0 5 firmware
Android 2.3 v2.0.5 firmware for Onda vx610w luxury v1 version.
What’s new:
1).Improve the ROM space to 1GB from 512MB;
2).Add more 3G dongles support;
3).Pre-installed app “Onda market”;
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5).Pre-installed app “Google Android Market”;
6).Optimized local video and online video play;
7).Improve stability of RJ45 ethernet internet;
8).Add more formats of external hard drive;
9).Add suport of IDX+SUB video subtitle;
10).Improve performance of camera;
11).Improve response of capacities touch screen;
Click here to download 2.3-v2.05
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