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I lost some old emails from people who wanted to use the Linkage program on Windows XP. This post is my only way of letting anyone know that I recently built the program for XP. I have not yet tested it. I don’t have a Windows XP system…
Continue readingThe internet has a lot of data about the NVG510 modem/router. Most of it consists of complaints. I will add to that list of complaints by adding one: The router will not let me use all five of my static IP addresses for five different computers. But first,…
Continue readinghttp://kugelbahn.blog.de/2014/01/29/erlesener-liftmechanismus-kugeln-david-rector-17653059/ I am proud to have been mentioned on the kugelbahn blog. It’s one of only two or three blogs that I read. The blogger is prolific and I can count on seeing something new almost every day. Now I need to get off my butt and work…
Continue readingWhile designing the lift mechanism for the new rolling ball sculpture, I found myself using a paint program and a lot of manual work to get printed plans with a 1:1 scale factor. In other words, I wanted printouts that were the actual size of the mechanism. This…
Continue readingI redesigned the ball lift to have two lifting arms. The ball holding “claws” will intertwine to allow the ball to be picked out of the lower arm by the upper arm. This video shows one of the variations of the lift that I designed. I’m making small…
Continue readingI just fixed a minor visual bug in the Linkage program. If a drawing connector draws for a while, it reaches a limit to the length of the path it can draw. It should just lose the earliest parts of the path, but the bug caused the drawing…
Continue readingI am using a copy of the WrapPanel code mentioned in an earlier post. The wrap panel measures UIElement items and then adds columns as needed to hold all objects at their desired size. The flaw in the existing WrapPanel code is that there is no way to…
Continue readingAfter my last post, I decided to write a WordPress plug-in that would upload text to a file and generate a script tag to use to reference that file in posts. This was just thrown together in an evening and most of the work was in learning how…
Continue readingI want to store source code for blog posts within their own files. This will allow a user to download the file instead of trying to copy/paste the formatted code from within the blog post. Although I do exclude line numbers from the code, I still replace >,…
Continue readingThe Windows Store ScrollViewer XAML has a bug. It causes a visual error on the screen when the ScrollViewer has no scroll bars. I discovered this because I have a main page in my app that uses the Visual Studio provided framework for a tiled app. The main…
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