Computers & Programming

This is a method for showing line numbers in online code listings without using JavaScript. Since this is so simple, I will only say that viewing the page source of this post will show the method quite clearly. This is an example of my line numbering scheme. The…

Google analytics is very useful for tracking hits to a site for free. I set it up for my blog to see how it worked but I wanted to track hits to www.rectorsquid.com and blog.rectorsquid.com at the same time. After searching around the web and reading various forum…

Sample Puzzle Output I decided that I should let anyone use the crossword puzzle generator program that I wrote. The Windows executable file can be downloaded from my site for your own personal use. Get it here. The Input Dialog Box Do people still call the popup boxes…

I just installed MarsEdit on the iMac. I’m not sure what sort of features are available so an experiment is in order. In HTML mode, I see the HTML tags. This sort of sucks. Yes, I know that I SHOULD see the tags in HTML mode. It should…

The situation is that the software product will send an email to someone when there is an error. Many errors can be reported once a day because the software is working fine for most tasks but didn’t have what it needed for a moment. Many errors need to…

I am the proud owner of a used iMac. I just haven’t turned it on yet. In fact, it is in a box half way here right now. I am starting an iOS project but I also hope to port the Linkage program to the Mac at some…

I wrote a while back about what I had discovered about AJAX and posting form data. I recently reused some of that old code and found some needed code to be missing. The old post is here. What I had not coded before was code to handle form…

The release of SimCity 5 sparked my interest in a new Railroad Tycoon game. Although Electronic Arts seems to have failed to build a SimCity game that works like I want it to work, their failure was mostly in releasing a game that could then not be played….