This the central blog for an Open University project which aims at getting 85 students together to write a book on computer art using a technology known as Processing. Tuesday, February 3, 2009. There is an audio interview about Processing. With Casey Reas and Ben Fry for free download at Floss; this is a weekly podcast on open source projects. My thanks to Rob Spain for alerting me to this. Thursday, January 22, 2009.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Fantastic, absolutely fantastic! Guess what folks. Yesterday evening I checked my OU course page and I have a big Pass. Printed next to M801! I have my MSc! Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Marvellous, absolutely marvellous! And so I attended the Mass Writing session that Darrel organised on Monday the 15th of June.

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Wednesday, 5 November 2008. Over the last few days, I have started to play with Processing. Primarily to get a feel for its capabilities. On the whole, I am impressed by the simplicity.

Wednesday, 4 November 2009. In the final section of Advanced Buttons 2 we will add tooltip functionality to our button class. First we need to add an instance variable to our button class in which we can hold the text of the tooltip, and we will also add a couple of instance variables to help us with the timing of the tooltip display. The constructor method will have to be changed to set the initial values for these instance. Check if the mouse .