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Binary Time Machine
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Binary Time Machines revisited |
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JavaScript Binary Time Machine. Dunno what it is with clocks, but
they seem to be one of the standard programs that any
programmer has to do. I produced my first clock way back in 1981 on a
- you guessed it - zx81. Since then I have written myriads of other
clocks in countless languages. Back in 1996 java was hot, and so I
wrote a java clock.
Back then I was working at
a major insurance broker company as a systems developer. You know, the usual
stuff. Business Process Analysis and constrution of applications to support
those processes. One fine day I was happily tweaking the Oracle with Delphi1, when the Boss
rushed into the EDP department and asked us to build a webpage. So, I started
looking into html, javascript and Java. I remember looking
all over the internet to find something useful written in Java. Apart from my
clock, I am still looking... However, real geeks prefer to read the time in binary format. For the past few years, I have had a nice binary clock on my desktop. You know, - just to stay sharp. In 2001 a fellow developer spotted this binary clock and asked me about it. I explained what matters to him, and he immidiately went into a deadly spin. Eager to get further into his geekhood, he started writing a binary time machine for win32. In assembler. No big deal... I mean, I did my 500k lines of assembly code, but this binary time machine features graphics on the win32 platform... This makes it a little different from most assembler code projects. The beautiful results of his work can be seen here... Another friend of mine was so excited about this that he asked me for a binary time machine for his webpage. I surfed around a bit, found a few pieces of code, but nothing really useful. So I unpacked my javascript gear and started. Now, - a few hours later - I present to you: My Javascript Binary Time Machine. |
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