Developing at Altitude » Matt Stuttard Parker

Introducing TileAIR

Matt — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:26:39 +0000

A long long time ago I made a very quick tool in Adobe Flash which would read an XML file of images and then tile them across the screen. When choosing one out of the hundreds of tiles I have it was a really useful tool… Recently I again came across the need to preview [...]

Simple Harmonic Motion – Pendulum Waves in Unity

Matt — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:12:34 +0000

A couple of months ago I was shown a video of a rather memorizing science experiment by students at Harvard University that uses Simple Harmonic Motion of several pendulums to create a visual display of several different waveforms. You can view a video of the experiment here and read more here. Having studied physics at A-Level [...]

Campervan Cuisine – Live Lobster!

Matt — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:13:33 +0000

For valentines day I decided to take quite a heavy gamble and attempt to find and cook a live lobster in our 1972 VW Camper… After driving to Abergavenny with the hope of sourcing a lobster from the food market we were told that the fish mongers I had heard of had moved to the [...]

Camping In The Snow (Just For Fun!)

Matt — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:13:06 +0000

I’ve been dying to try out my awesome sleeping bag which will apparently go down to -10° comfortably and pushing closer to -20° as an extreme so as soon as it snowed I went straight out and put our new tent superlight tent up! Unfortunately the temperature only went down to a pathetic -2° so [...]

1972 T2 VW Bay Window Campervan Restoration

Matt — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:39:30 +0000

Hattie and I have been looking at old VW Campervans for quite some time now and we finally found one in decent condition and within our budget! We’ve got quite a bit of work to do but she’s only done 75k and had the engine rebuilt less than 1k ago, plus she’s got 9 months [...]

Our Weekend Country Wedding

Matt — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:41:25 +0000

On Saturday the 25th June, 2011 I married my beautiful fiancee Hattie Parker at St.Weonards Church, Herefordshire! Having been to a couple of weddings we had decided we wanted to spread it over the entire weekend so we could spend as much time as possible with our family and friends. On the Friday evening we [...]

Introducing Tr.ace() – An AS3 Open Source Debugging Library

Matt — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:54:42 +0000

All developers use some form of tracing as a loose method of debugging at some point whilst developing their applications, time for an upgrade… About Tr.ace() The problem with the trace statement within AS3 though is that it’s rather limited. If you’re working within a team it’s possible you’ve no idea who’s trace is whose [...]

Hello World

Matt — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:37:12 +0000

A quick and token ‘ Hello World ‘ post with a glimpse of what’s to come… So, I’ve finally found a spare few seconds across several weeks to split my personal ramblings from my work. This new site ‘mattstuttard.co.uk’ and blog will contain snippets from mountaineering, travelling, splashes of creativity and progress on our VW [...]