Monthly Archives

January 2012

Computers & Programming

Removing iScroll

iScroll is a small JavaScript library that allowed scrolling of elements on mobile Safari. Mobile Safari did not support scrolling of overflow contents before IOS 5 and iScroll made it possible. It works great although it is no longer necessary. One thing that iScroll and Safari for IOS…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

iBook Internet Sharing to an iPad

I configured the iBook to share its wired network connection through its Airport connection and gave the connection a name and password. Nothing worked. The iBook didn’t show up on the list of iPad WiFi connections. I tried to disable the built-in firewall on the iBook and got…

Continue reading
Computers & Programming

New Programming Projects Page

I just started adding pages to describe each of various programming projects that I have worked on. They are all accessed using an overview page HERE. I will try to keep that page up-to-date as I work on other projects. Check it out to see what I have…

Continue reading
AutoResponder

New AutoResponder Screen Shots

Here are screenshots of the AutoResponder. I still need to change the title and do some other work on it. These were captured from my iPad. The main menu screen. The teams list for filtering messages per team. All messages. The registered user filter list. The messages screen…

Continue reading
AutoResponder

AutoResponder

I finally have a shorter name for the Automatic Emailer Responder Program. EResponder! I’m not sure why I didn’t come up with it sooner although it’s not all that great. Crap! Someone already has a product with that name – not unexpected – and they are a spam…

Continue reading
AutoResponder

AJAX is Easy

The title is not a generality. I mean it in the context of having some JavaScript code to do POST operations and get the results. I also have some PHP code that gets the POST request and creates a response. It too me only a few minutes to…

Continue reading
AutoResponder

MFC App to Windows Service

I converted my auto email program to a Windows service. Windows services are interesting because they work well when they are console programs but an MFC based program that has a main window is tricky. Since the auto email program was an MFC application with a main window,…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

Battlefield 3

I don’t normally blog about computer games other than those that I am designing to want to design. This is an exception because I have some comments about Battlefield 3 and I think it is worth making a note about them. Battlefield 3 is a first person shooter…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

Back from Vacation

Although I did no real work of any sort and have no new information to share, I do think a post is in order: I’m back from two weeks of vacation. It seemed like more than that for some reason. I plan on working only a little more…

Continue reading