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About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

The Game – Progress Report #5

Posted on January 5, 2013 by James McParlane

Here is an update on the game design. This time. Building a planet. Mining from the ‘Youroid’ and gathering resources. Building A Spaceport and building a SpaceShip.

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The Game – Progress Report #4

Posted on December 17, 2012 by James McParlane

We took some time off. I was busy on another super sekret project and Mr11 has been working on learning Java,  video editing and  and his youtube channel. We have been doing some design in the background on and off … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #3

Posted on September 29, 2012 by James McParlane

We are back after a long well deserved holiday overseas. This was my first real holiday in close to 15 years. Yay. I’ve kind-of been in a daze since I got back and I’ve really only caught up on everything this week. … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #2

Posted on May 13, 2012 by James McParlane

Another good weekend of progress. Decided that to document some of the user interface nuances we needed some kind of stop motion capture system. Back in the day when I was more hands-on in UI/UX I had a lot of … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #1

Posted on May 6, 2012 by James McParlane

We have made good progress in our Sunday sessions over the last few weeks. I have resurrected my decades old physics engine. See these videos. (1 , 2, 3) I have been comparing various game development frameworks, at this point MonoGame is looking like … Continue reading →

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The Game

Posted on April 12, 2012 by James McParlane

My son and I have been writing MineCraft mods which had been fun and educational for him, but a little frustrating in the last month. If you have been following the world of Minecraft you will know that there has been a … Continue reading →

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Talking to The TV

Posted on February 28, 2012 by James McParlane

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/blogs/press-here/Google-Patent-shows-its-working-on-voice-control-for-Google-TV-140222103.html .. I suspect this is in response to rumors of a Siri enabled Apple TV product being released end of 2012. I think a big takeaway is that as the iPhone overnight mainstreamed gestural controls , we need to be prepared … Continue reading →

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My Life In IPTV

Posted on May 9, 2011 by James McParlane

I was asked by a company to write about myself and my IPTV experience. I’ve left a lot out but here are the highlights. James has been playing with computers on and off since he can remember. As a youth … Continue reading →

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WebTV 2.0

Posted on April 13, 2011 by James McParlane

As you may notice from my lack of posts, I’ve been rather busy for the last three years. I’ve been working on my own personal project “ThumbWhere” which is “Software As A Service” Social Media/Video Transcoding API. But this is … Continue reading →

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SFTP Added To ThumbWhere Storage

Posted on August 22, 2010 by James McParlane

Checked in SFTP support. We need to test with more SFTP servers than we have in the development environment, but this is all ready for testing. Now for FTPS and plain old FTP. One side effect of the AmazonS3 Storage … Continue reading →

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