Physics

In today's Web Wednesday post we're highlighting something you might think a little oxymoronic, a JavaScript Physics engine. It's still in an Alpha status, but even so, it's looking pretty cool... PhysicsJSA modular, extendable, and easy-to-use physics engine for javascript PhysicsJS is still under…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and first time on the show, Nikola Metulev, discuss the week's top developer news, including; [01:04] Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2013 Pricing (Keith Ward) [01:42] RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET (Andrew Pardoe) [02:33] Just Released – Data…

When was the last time I've mentioned a psychics engine? A while. Farseer? Even longer. The release of a Farseer update seems like a good time to fix that... Farseer Physics Engine 3.5Farseer Physics Engine 3.5 - Mars is not that far away FPE 3.5 is a major release that implements the latest tools,…

Today's wild Wednesday project is one that's a little hard to characterize yet is just pretty darn cool. Who doesn't want to build trucks, planes, ships, then drive and even crash them? Rigs of RodsRigs of Rods is an open source vehicle simulator licensed under the GNU General Public License version…

Today's Mobile Monday project is a fun little Windows Phone game that lets play with physics and Pirates. How's that for a combination? Pirates! for Windows Phone Table of ContentsIntroduction System Requirements Farseer Physics Engine Adjusting The Game To 60 Frames Per Second Converting Images…

It's been WAY too long since we've had Brian Beckman sharing knowledge, insights and perspectives on Channel 9. This changes now! Needless to say, I was incredibly happy to spend an hour with Brian learning all about what he's up to these days. Not surprisingly, he's writing code and employing Rx…

Damian Conway is widely-known for his event speaking and software development training skills—areas in which he's among the world's best. He's also contributed important modules to Perl and is an important member of the Perl community. He is the CEO of Thoughtstream, a training company for…

From something as simple as a paperclip to far more complex machines such as computers, there are a wide variety of machines forming a regular part of our daily lives. None, however, come close to the complexity found in the machine that is the human being.When you think of Microsoft, you might…

In this latest edition of Expert to Expert (and Going Deep), the great Brian Beckman, astrophysicist and software architect, is joined by Greg Meredith, a mathematician and computer scientist. It's just bound to be an intellectual jam session!The idea for the format of this conversation is…

In this walk through, we will create a game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight, in the style of table shuffleboard style game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight.. Many bars feature these long wooden table games, in which players slide metal pucks down the length of the table, attempting to…