I have a new contract job that involves the Windows Phone and I can’t make any changes to the Linkage program for a few months. Since I have some interesting features in the latest version, I wanted to share it. This new version, available here, has some recent…
Continue readingGoogle 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…
Continue readingSample 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…
Continue readingI 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…
Continue readingThe 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…
Continue readingI 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…
Continue readingI 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…
Continue readingI thought that I would mix things up on my blog and post about my experience with the controversial SimCity 2013. Having never written a review of something, this should be fun. SimCity 5 was launched on Tuesday March 5, 2013. It was apparently not downloadable from Origin,…
Continue readingIt took me a while but I now totally understand the DXF format. It wasn’t until I needed to change a bit of the output from the free source code I used, that I needed up getting the details I needed to not be confused. The format is…
Continue readingThe 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….
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