Is it important to be fluent in a programming language? I’m not sure anymore. I write C++ code all day every day. At least on days when I am working on the normal native-application cross-platform stuff that I do here. We have a few programs that run as…
Continue readingScarecrow and Mrs. King was a TV show from way way back. For some reason, it came to mind right when I was typing the title of this post. Scarecrow was the code name for a spy. Mrs. King was a housewife. They spied on people and helped…
Continue readingI am really bad at keeping up with blogging. It’s not because absolutely no one reads this stuff. It is because I am lazy. Knowing I am lazy doesn’t help either. Damn is it hot in my office right now. I think that latte had more than just…
Continue readingStep 3. Well, this is really something like step 10. I didn’t post for a few days and now I have this running on the iPhone, and on the emulator seen here: I used tables to get the bubbles looking right and to automatically size themselves, within certain…
Continue readingStep 2 I have the images worked out for the outgoing content. Since I styled these by hand, I only set the classes properly for the one that appears complete in the image. I added a div inside of the cell that contains the text. I then gave…
Continue readingStep 1 I want to write PHP code that will read a log file of some sort and then create an HTML display for it. The display needs to look like an SMS text messaging system such as is seen on the iPhone. I only need the timestamps,…
Continue readingI have two new web coding/designing projects to work on. 1 A friend wanted a website designed to sell photos. I would think that there are sites that let you sell stuff that are very well designed and look appropriate for that sort of thing but maybe not….
Continue readingI just created an account at http://freedns.afraid.org and then created a subdomain using one of their existing domains. Now ———— points to whatever system I want it to point to. It worked with my system at work and immediately showed up with my WAN address (router address, not…
Continue readingThe topics today are related to visual changes to my auto emailer program and background processing in a modal dialog box. Visual Changes The auto email program now sports a shiny new display. It looks very much like an SMS text message app on a smart phone. A…
Continue readingI thought that the “working” animation, like seen on smart phones and other similar devices, was neat showing up in the middle of my auto email program window but it didn’t look so good when the window is huge and when the window is full of status text….
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