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Winding down...

9 months ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
It’s been a good run, but my thrill for blogging has ebbed. Most of my online conversation occurs on Twitter these days, and my Buckblog has definitely...

Sharing the Inheritance Hierarchy

12 months ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
I’ve been working more closely with Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 lately, and while in general it’s been smooth going, there was one particularly disappointing road...

Maze Generation: More weave mazes

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
My previous post showed one way to create “weave mazes”, or mazes in which the passages weave over and under one another. The technique I showed...

Maze Generation: Weave mazes

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
This is a “weave” maze: The name does not describe any specific algorithm for generating mazes, but rather simply identifies the class...

Weave Mazes: Your Take?

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
Later this week I’m going to post an article about how you might implement “weave mazes”, like this one: This is a maze where some...

Programming Language Survey Results

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
A couple of weeks ago (already!) I asked two simple questions of my Twitter followers: what are (up to) four programming languages that you know and love...

Kaleidoscope

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
It’s funny how knowledge leads to knowledge. You start digging deeper into one thing, and discover threads leading off into related fields. I began...

Mazes in CoffeeScript

over 1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
Several people have asked how I did the Javascript demos in my maze algorithm articles, and while I’ve answered them a couple of times in the comments...

Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap

over 1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
(Hello Minecrafters! If you’re looking for random mazes you can build in Minecraft, you might be better served by this page I wrote. It’ll give...

Maze Generation: Sidewinder algorithm

over 1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
Last of the (eleven!) maze algorithms on my list is the Sidewinder algorithm. With a name like that, it’s got to be cool, right? Well, possibly...