Author Archives: R.P. Churchill

Website Update Mostly Complete

Posted on February 16, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I slogged through and got the hard part done. Migrating the WordPress installation down one directory was blissfully easy and the rest of it was just applying elbow grease and being thorough. It’s nice having a true landing page. That … Continue reading →

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Website Update In Progress

Posted on February 15, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I’m in the process of hand-editing all of the static webpages and I think it’s coming together reasonably. Doing these pages over and over again makes it clear that I should be doing at least the simplest level of automation, … Continue reading →

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Responsive Design: One Observation

Posted on February 14, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I try to keep digging until I understand things from first principles if it’s at all practical. I won’t claim I’m above settling for a temporary fix if there’s a deadline or so I can move on for a while, … Continue reading →

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Random Explorations

Posted on February 13, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

Over the past few weeks I met two nice people who have both built websites based on Jekyll (the newer one was actually based on OctoPress). As I’m redoing my website I’m trying to find a good way to make … Continue reading →

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WebGL: Incorporating Device Orientation

Posted on February 9, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

At last night’s DCJS Meetup (specifically Sean’s talk referencing this) I learned that a means of reading the 3D orientation of a device has been readily available for some time. Descriptions were not hard to find. Setting up the listener … Continue reading →

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WebGL Is Supported By Most Browsers — Most of the Time

Posted on February 8, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

Working through yesterday’s post I found it necessary to test the code in multiple browsers and, when it failed, to use the debuggers to figure out where. The different examples I’ve put together for this site and for last week’s … Continue reading →

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A Simple Discrete-Event Simulation: Part 82

Posted on February 7, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

Today I added the ability to use the mouse to drag the 2D display around within its canvas. I had to update the various pan functions to allow specification of an arbitrary distance increment, though there are a number of … Continue reading →

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A Simple Discrete-Event Simulation: Part 81

Posted on February 6, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

This week and possibly much of next I’m concentrating on updating the fixed content of my website, which means I’m only going to be doing small increments on this project. I’ve decided that the next item to work on is … Continue reading →

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Converting the Entire Site from HTTP to HTTPS

Posted on February 2, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

…was painful. Instructions for making the change effective throughout WordPress were easy enough to find and follow, but updating references in 250-ish posts by hand took some time. I had two hassles. The first was my own doing in that … Continue reading →

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Presentation for CharmCityJS Meetup Feb 1, 2017

Posted on February 1, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

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