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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 readingMost of an HTML document can be designed (styled) using CSS. This allows designers to apply their own look and feel to everything on the page. Everything except for the HTML input element used for file uploads. The file upload element will generally look like this, although it…
Continue readingI wanted to publish some pictures of my Safari IOS web app for the auto emailer program. The web app is a web page that mimics the IOS user interface and is a remote user interface for the auto email responder program I wrote for Windows. The original…
Continue readingI don’t have anything new going on with my latest home projects. I have been working a bit on the auto email web interface, the interface that looks like a native IOS app, but nothing has been worth reporting yet. I fixed a bug at work today. The…
Continue readingI have a Mac Mini that I got for free. It does not have an Intel processor so I cannot upgrade the OS and cannot do any IOS development. I can do OSX development. My plan is to write a program that uses Cocoa and OpenGL version 2.x….
Continue readingI’m writing a lot of code most evenings. Here is some code I wrote in JavaScript to submit an AJAX request using multipart/form-data encoding. This is better than the more typical application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding because data does not need to be reformatted if it contains things that are not…
Continue readingI am working on JavaScript code that will show a preview of a local image file before it is uploaded. A web page has a preview area that uses an HTML5 canvas for the preview so that the image can be scaled to fit in the area while…
Continue readingI‘m not really testing HTML5 on my new iPad. I’m just playing games. Planetary Defense is the only thing I’ve written and it works way better than expected. The strangest thing happened yesterday: Take a look at the little red dot in the lower right corner. Here it…
Continue readingI am in the process of updating my/our website. I have not been adding things to it for the last year because I have been trying to blog more and use Facebook and the blog to post images. This blog post should now show up on www.rectorsquid.com until…
Continue readingI did a quick update of Planetary Defense. After testing it on an iPad2, I decided to leave it alone except for a few changes to the different levels of the game. After 60 bombs have been sent at the planetoid, enemy missiles show up. If the player…
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