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December 2023

(Community Contribution) Transform Your Passion: Steps to Elevate a Hobby into a Prosperous Business

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

November 2023

(Community Contribution) Top Tips and Resources for Launching a Business With No Money

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

October 2022

(Community Contribution) Time To Give Your Business a Boost With Web-Based Projects

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

June 2022

(Community Contribution) Why Monitoring Website Performance Is of the Essence

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

May 2022

(Community Contribution) 4 Tips for Creating a Business Website That Is Accessible to People With Hearing Impairments

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

(Community Contribution) Love Video Games? You Can Turn your passion into a Career!

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

February 2022

(Community Contribution) 5 Steps to Building a Successful Freelancing Team

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

November 2021

(Community Contribution) Starting A Home Business When You Are Disabled

The following article is a community contribution from Ed Carter. Ed is a retired financial planner who runs the site: AbleFutures, where he is working on providing financial literacy for the disabled. He reached out ...

February 2016

How to Install OpenCV on OpenShift

I wanted to deploy a python server on OpenShift which would be able to use OpenCV Image processing tools. I found a nice blog post here, however I had multiple issues with it. The link to the OpenCV source files w...

December 2015

Unity Interactive Narrative

In this post we will discuss the implementation of an Interactive Narrative Game in Unity. The projects were created by a team of 3 as part of a class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics at Rutgers Universit...

Computer Graphics Crowd Competition

In this post we will discuss my team’s submission to the Rutgers Computer Graphics class Crowd Competition using SteerLite. Implementation Plane_Egress Midterm points were hardcoded inside the plane. The agents foll...

November 2015

Behavior Trees In Unity

The projects were created by a team of 3 as part of a class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics at Rutgers University. Video Behavior Tree You can play the Unity by clicking on the link here. Cont...

A* Pathfinding

In this post we will discuss the implementation of A* pathfinding using SteerLite. The projects were created by a team of 3 as part of a class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics at Rutgers University. Imp...

Crowd Simulation of Social Forces

In this post we will discuss the implementation of Social Forces in crowd simulations using SteerLite. The projects were created by a team of 3 as part of a class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics at R...

October 2015

2D Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi and Expanding Polytope Algorithm

In this post we will discuss the implementation of GJK (Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi) and EPA(Expanding Polytope Algorithm) in C++. The projects were created by a team of 3 as part of a class project for Introduction to Co...

Unity Navigation and Animation

In this post we will discuss the implementation of Navigation and Animation in Unity. The projects were created by a team of 3 as part of a class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics at Rutgers University. T...

Hermite and Catmull Rom Splines

In this post we will discuss the implementation of Hermite and Catmull Splines in SteerLite. The projects were created by a team of 3 as part of a class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics at Rutgers Uni...

Getting Started with Unity

In this post I will discuss the implementation of my first Unity project. The projects were created as a class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics at Rutgers University. Roll A Ball You can play the Unity ...

June 2015

Colorful i3 customization

This post is meant to guide others who are interested in getting colors and icons on their i3 status. Here is a snapshot of my i3 status. Get i3blocks i3blocks is a cool package for i3 which will make all this con...

March 2015

Happy Pie Day

In honor of Pie day I decided to learn how to incorporate a math typeset onto Html. The mathjax package makes this easy to do. Setting up the html 1 2 3 4 5 6 <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJa...

Embed Videos In Html

Embedding vidoes in html is easy. Just do: 1 2 3 4 <video id="video1" controls style="width:100%; height:100%;" > <source src="../videos/SweetTalkingEileen.webm" type="video/webm"> Your browser does not...

Derivation of Flux from Concentration Profile

After learning how to incorporate LaTeX into html. I decided to run through a sample Biomedical equation derivation on the transport of a solute through time t and space z. What we know Concentration Profile: ...

January 2015

SwitchBeat

  I decided to spend my winter break programming something I was interested in. I really enjoy listening to mashups, which are two or more songs that are combined into one. I often enjoy listening to mashups in r/m...

Using My Jekyll Template

I have decided to dedicate a post on the layout of this website. If someone looking for a Jekyll template wants to use my website, they can follow the instructions here on how to personalize their website. I will be o...

How to make your own blog.

Creating a blog is not that hard. I would say, the hardest part would be getting started. In addition, if you do not want a custom domain (more of that in a bit) then you can get your blog up and running for free. Se...

Trim your Videos Fast and Easy.

I wanted to trim my video without any loss of quality. It took me a surprisingly long time to find this on Google so I thought I would put this command here so if someone else needs to do this, they do not need to spe...

Come on and Slam

My friend and I have a great interest in the song Come on and Slam by Quad City DJs. We recently created a parody using programming terms. Here is the part of the song we used to make the parody: It's the QCD on the...

December 2014

Zork

I decided to spend the beginning of my winter break learning how to use Heroku. I decided to make my first program a zork game that uses Heroku to run the Zork game in a local bash shell. I have learned several thin...

September 2014

Making My Gmail Script Execute Only

Today I decided to obfuscate my gmail script which contains both my gmail username and password. Initially, I had the files hidden as a dot file, however I decided to use shc to convert my .sh file into a binary file....

Adding Weather and Gmail info to my i3 Status

Today I decided to use a program known as i3blocks to customize my i3status. It allows me to run outputs of scripts and colorize sections as well. Installing and configuring i3blocks First you need to install i3bloc...

August 2014

Generating a .gif from a Http canvas

Today, I wanted to create a loading animation for my images on my garden page. Since I have a lot of high quality images, I decided to use unveil.js. This javascript plugin allows me to lazy-load my images and also pr...

Getting Black Hat on my Android

Today I decided to try something new. This project was actually quite tedious. I wanted to get Black Hat on my Android. It took a lot of adjustments. There were times when I thought that the two would not be compatibl...

Developing Random Math Art

You may have noticed the graph on the side. This is created dynamically by Javascript using random numbers and basic trig alterations of sine graphs. After a lot of googling, I was finally able to find a method. You f...

Adding FontAwsome Icons to my resume using Latex

Yesterday I have decided to remodel my resume in latex. I decided that I would like to use some of the icons from FontAwsome on my contact section to save space. This was not as easy as expected, nevertheless I found ...

July 2014

Using Lastfm to display music

After creating a music page, I have decided to take advantage of my knowledge of javascript to make the task of displaying my music selection easier. I wanted to create a script that would pull from a list of albums a...

Fetching Github Commit Messages

I thought of an idea that will be pretty unique for my website. Since my website is hosted on github, I would like to access the commit messages to my git repository and display them to show the changes that are being...

Batch Renaming with Bash

I recently had to rename 350+ files. So I decided it was time that I learned how to rename files using bash scripting. There are multiple parts to this. First you need to create and itterate through a list of files. T...

Simple Css styling with Awsome effects

You can make you website look awsome with not much code at all. You just need a bit of creativity, a bit of css, and alot of criticism. In this post, I will talk about the css transform property. Just a few lines of c...

Monitoring the Hubble constant with Ajax

So lately I was contemplating on creating a project using Ajax. I decided that I wanted to do something really neat with data that is constantly changing. The first thing that came to mind was the Hubble constant. The...

Making your own custom icon font.

I have recently decided to spice up my i3 status by adding icons to all of my info display sections. However, I also wanted to add an Arch icon in the front. This led me to an issue, as there are no icon fonts that I ...

Adding your custom font to i3status

Notice: This is a guide for an old version of my i3status. To access the guide to the newer version click here. Now that I have created my custom icon font. I would like to add this font to my i3status. This will ...

The Power of Liquid

After finding a way to edit my code blocks appearance. I ran into another issue. Currently the only solution I have to fix the issue, is to run javascript code on each of the code blocks. This is quite bothersome. How...

Designing dynamically generated html from Jekyll

I have recently decided to change my code block to contain a header for the programming language that I am using. However, I also use Jekyll to construct my blog. Jekyll scans my Markdown files and dynamically generat...

June 2014

i3 tiling window manager

Why did I switch to a tiling window manager? I am not going to say that a minimalistic environment such as i3 is better than a desktop manager such as KDE, GNOME, MATE, or Xfce, but a minimalistic environment has hel...

May 2014

Github Name Squatting Policy

Github has this really cool policy that allows you to ask them to remove dusty user accounts which have not been used for an extended period of time. This means short usernames that have been claimed years ago might b...

BTK, A tool for reading C3d files

I am currently doing research on the differences between Barefoot running and Shod running(running with shoes). I am working with software known as the AnyBody Modeling System using the Gait lower Extremity model. Thi...

Jekyll Now Supports Auto-Regeneration

Jekyll has just added a new feature which is Auto- Regeneration. This update is really neat and saves web developers a lot of time. Before the update, Jekyll has given developers the option to launch their website on ...