Speckled Green

Well, those two days were sure eventful. At Sean’s house on Thursday, Ben & Sean were busy working out the coding behind the ATM and getting it to work. I have just read an email from Sean saying that he’s finished putting it together, and now I just have to come up with an acceptable GUI design for them to conform to. Ahh… time to let my imagination roam free. Except I have to remind myself that it has to be doable. So, that will cause several ideas to be immediately ruined.

It was an enjoyable day, with Ben and his MacBook and a school laptop, Sean with his desktop plugged into the TV, and me borrowing my mum’s laptop. Ben certainly had the most resources =]  And when it came to deciding what we would have for lunch (Sean’s mum gave us a choice), since we were running short of dice, Ben even wrote up a script to randomly choose what we would eat for lunch!!

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So, here I am at Sean’s house, using my mum’s laptop, and we’re working on our SDD project. Sean and Ben are busy coding, while I’m trying to workout a splash and layout for the GUI to our silly ATM project. More later.

Just been trying out the new Firefox 4.0 beta 1, and it sure does look and feel different. Actually, I’m trying the Portable Edition, but really all that is is just boxing up the normal version to run properly off a USB…

Anyhows, many people have commented that Firefox 4 is just trying to copy Opera (like they said Chrome was copying Opera, and Safari was copying everyone else…). And I thought “you know, they seem perfectly right…” until I read someone’s comment on the matter: Read more »

I remember when I went to my blog during one SDD class, and as I checked my ‘spam blocked’ tab on the sidebar, Sticky pointed out to me how awesome, yet ironic, the number was. Yep, that’s right, it read 1337. D0n’7 y0u ju57 10v3 1337 5p34k? Read more »

I now believe that I have the most comprehensive blogroll of my friends’ blogs that any of my friends have, and probably now the most up to date one there is (as I did it only a few hours ago).

The sad thing I find is that many of my friends who do have me as a link on their blogroll (ohk, very few, but still) still link to my old address: www.pressing-on.net; or its sub-domain: blog.pressing-on.net. Come on guys!! For nearly a year I had a page there saying “This blog has been moved”! And if you bothered paying attention to the web address, you’d find I’d been redirecting you from pressing-on.net to here! Or am I the only person who bothers checking the URL every time he goes onto a web page?

In other news, I have officially lost my music assignment sheet. Martin, help, please?

TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!

It would appear that it is time that I update my blogroll (easier now that I’m using Google Reader to check on the blogs). This isn’t quite as easy as it seems, as some of the sites still do update… rarely. So, sorting out the dead from the rotting and alive, and finding where people have shifted their blogs to isn’t something I look greatly forward to. But hey! It’s more interesting than waiting for friends to go online on WLM or Facebook =] Read more »

My music library on the desktop computer currently contains 5809 items, totalling up to approximately 377hrs worth of audio files. Surprisingly though, it’s only 24GB, that’s including all the album art and other things my iTunes folder has. Suppose that’s because it’s all in mp3, so lossy compression makes it smaller =] Read more »

Someone please explain to me why my blog is no longer blocked by the DET portal (at least for Seniors), while other’s blogs aren’t?? I mean, just last year, it was classified as “personal/blogs”…

Anyways, I’m gonna get back to doing my software stuff =]

Wow, I’m enjoying it so far. Definitely looks good guys!! All I’m gonna say about my life at the moment is that it’s going to the cold end of the year, but worry not people. I’ve already had my flu jabs and gone through a cold. So I shall not get sick on you anytime soon. Maybe next year =P

Oh, and the assignments are annoying me a lot. How have the older students put up with this?!

They’re like emails, except they’re books!! Anyways, doing some digging around on the internet, I managed to find myself two good ebooks, for learning C#!!! One was a compilation of some online lessons from Programmer’s Heaven. Pretty good, it’s teaching me all the basics I need to know so far, and showing me just how similar PHP is to C++ (then again, thinking on it, I don’t really know that much PHP XD no, really, I don’t know that much PHP). Soon I’ll move onto the slightly harder aspects. Thankfully the language hasn’t changed much since .Net 1.1 was released, so the tutorial is still good; all Microsoft have really done (or so it seems) is just add new features to the language as the .Net library grows in functionality.

But in case I do need to learn something more up to date, I managed to dig up an ebook copy of another good book, Essential C# 4.0, which was officially published the day Microsoft officially released .Net 4.0 and C#4.0 (funny how C# updates at the same time, and to the same number as the .Net framework does… would have nothing to do with C# being the native .Net language now, would it? =P  ), and contains up-to-date practises for C#, and which I can use to cross reference the other book I have (in case they changed any syntax or something, like what happened with one tutorial I tried a while back. It was written for C#2 or earlier, and when I tried it in C#4, it didn’t work!!)

But another book I found was a book about AJAX. Haven’t had a look at it yet, but maybe it’ll be helpful for future web development, and help me understand the technique better. Either way, I look forward to being able to read it soon, and put it to at least minor use on my blog! Talking about my blog, I must remind myself to recheck what IntraIP have when to offer when March comes around.