ctrl-alt-Development

Your hotkey to alternative software development

Tools of the Trade

Some frameworks really help out in creating something nice. These are just a few essentials:

Dec '11
29

Fortress Unlimited

The world is in peril once again.. An evil mastermind has abducted leading scientists to construct a doomsday device in an underground fortress filled with traps and defences. Are you skilled enough to destroy the doomsday device, rescue the scientists and save the world while you're at it? Read more..

May '09
30

Java Game Development article published in WeLoveIt

We Love It Oracle/Java magazine published my article on how to write computergames in Java. Read more..

Apr '09
02

Fortress4K scores 85.4% at #10 at Java4k.com

The Java4K judges have reached their conclusions. Fortress4K scored some really favorable reviews. Or to quote Chris Melissinos his words: 'Whoo! Physics, explosions, clever design, challenging control, force fields, enemy placement. Add sound and push this one out right now. Excellent job!' Read more..

Mar '08
15

Easy Webservices with CXF and Maven

I really like the Apache CXF Webservices framework. It works really well and is very programmer friendly. And when combined with Maven2 dependencies and packaging are a breeze as well. As I use this combination quite a lot, I keep explaining how to get this working (its easy, really, you only have to know how :) So I decided to write a (Dutch) tutorial. Read more..

Jun '07
21

Erik's SunSPOT Adventures

I borrowed some SunSPOT's from the Dutch Java UserGroup. SunSPOT's make embedded software developent easy. Read all about it in my (increasingly weird) SunSPOT adventures ! (in Dutch btw) Read more..

Jul '06
12

Masters of Java Assignment Eclipse Plugin

Now available from ctrl-alt-dev : The plugin that will make writing Masters of Java Assignments a breeze : The MoJ Assignment Eclipse 3.1 Plugin beta ! Download it now and change the way you develop MoJ Assignments. Blarp! Read more..

Jan '06
02

New game : Puzzle 2D available for download

Download and play it now ! Read more..

Dec '05
25

Masters of Java 2005

Another year and another round of Masters of Java (MoJ). 30 Teams of IT professionals and students from around the country competed again for the title Master of Java. Read more..

Dec '04
07

Masters of Java goes Open Source

The Masters of Java game engine is now available as an open source product. Have fun with your fellow developers (or deviously use the statistics to measure their performance :-) Read more..

Sep '04
12

Added Masters of Java

A high speed java programming competition held in November 2004 in association with the dutch Java usergroup. Read more..

Jun '04
01

Added Article : DIY-Aspect Oriented Frameworks

After a brief intodruction of Aspect Oriented Programming and the available frameworks, this article investigates how to create your own AOP framework from scratch. Read more..

Apr '04
21

Package Inc is available for Download

By popular demand, the Package Inc game is now available as download. Read more..

Mar '04
07

aMaze upgraded and available as standalone download.

After having played with aMaze some of my collegues wanted to have the standalone version for further experiments. So it has become a separate download complete with source code. Also a new tile and a match mode have been added. Read more..