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Welcome to my homepage. The site is still very much under construction, and as of yet doesn't yield much to look at. The webpages themselves serve as no more than a scratchpad for my sporadic web programming experiments, though over time I hope to be able to use it to share any projects I've been working on.

Laptop beats server in SSL attack

Apple granted patent on slide to unlock, even though it existed 2 year...

Why I became an Educator

Has Apple missed the social-music train?

I Believe In Google Plus

ARM unveils Cortex-A7 processor, 'big.LITTLE' computing

Bloatware kill switch in Ice Cream Sandwich

Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS

Diaspora Becomes PayPal's Latest Victim

Fedora ARM demo

Javascript Projects

Here is a list of some of the projects that I've been experimenting with, using Javascript.

SonicJS

A basic Sonic the Hedgehog clone. Partly based on my C# Sonic game. Written in Javascript, using HTML5 features such as the canvas element and the audio element.

www.sturd.co.uk/sonicjs

Astrlndr: My JS1K Submission

My submitted Javascript program to the JS1K competition. The rules: Script must be less than 1024 bytes. No externals!
I managed to submit this mini game at 1023 bytes.

http://js1k.com/demos#id133

Sprite.js

A small Javascript object that handles animation when drawing images to the canvas. Used in my SonicJS project. This software is hosted on GitHub

http://github.com/sturd/Sprite.js

PHP Projects

Listed here, are a couple of small pieces of software I wrote to display RSS/Atom feeds on my website. These are both written using PHP.

Latest Last.fm Tracks Feed

This feed utilises the LastRSS software, written in PHP. This software is used to collect and cache the rss feed generated by Last.fm. This rss feed is generated from music that I've listened to in iTunes or Banshee.

I will set up a GitHub repository for this script soon.

Latest Feedly Articles Feed

This feed uses the SimplePie PHP software, I selected this software as I required functionality for fetching Atom feeds, a feature that LastRSS is lacking. The articles in this feed have been read and recommended on my Feedly account.

Again, I will set up a GitHub repository for this script soon.

C# Projects

This is a page for any C# projects I may do in the future. I have only used C# for one project so far.

Sonic XNA

This project was submitted as a piece of work at University. It is a small Sonic the Hedgehog clone, written in C# using the Microsoft XNA framework. This makes it possible to build and play the game on an XBox 360. The game has also been written to make use of the XBox 360 Controller, this functionality is available both on PC and XBox 360.

I have hosted the game on my site at the following link: Sonic XNA.

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

Contact Details

Email: craig [at] sturd [dot] co [dot] uk

Twitter: @th3sturd

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About the Author

I am Craig Sturdy, a computer geek currently living and seeking work in the field of computing within the glorious City of Nottingham. I have experience in a range of programming languages from compiled languages such as C/C++, through to interpreted languages such as Javascript.

About the Site

This website has been set up as a portfolio to showcase some projects that I have been working on. Allowing people to browse and possibly use the software that I have written. The site also acts as a way of showing the work I have done to potential employers.