Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Java, Programming on Jun 12th, 2008
I talked how I was wanting to learn Java, so I could start making programs for the Android mobile phone platform.
A project that I thought of, but is perhaps beyond my ability for any time soon, is an application that will tie in with MySpace, Facebook and expendable to other social network websites.
Basically, it searches [...]
Posted in Java, Programming on Jun 10th, 2008
There is a phone platform coming out called Android, which is a project of the Open Handset Alliance. A number phone manufacturers are going to be making mobile phones based on the Open Handset Alliance specification, all of which use Android. To program for Android, you need to know Java, and so I am starting [...]
Posted in PHP, Programming, WordPress on Oct 12th, 2007
I am working on fixing the theme I am using, GStyles (available here) and trying to make it work with WordPress 2.3.
So far I have fixed index.php and singles.php.
Here is an original code snippet from singles.php (sorry, the code runs over the edge, the theme is fixed width so it runs over... I might make [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Jul 4th, 2007
Oh for the time to actually do some programming.
I was looking at a college schedule, trying to figure out what classes I would want to take. For a single class however, there may be 6 during the same semester, and this is just the day ones, and 3 or so of which I could probably [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on May 16th, 2007
I am getting back to reading Murach's C# 2005 and Visual C# 2005 How to Program (2nd Edition) (How to Program) as I am finding myself a bit rusty having not programmed anything for a long time. I really need to keep myself doing a little bit every once and a while just to keep [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on May 12th, 2007
Continuing my updates on the progress of my Lottery Program, I recently got it to parse the Mega Millions website to get the latest numbers. Basically it gets a text file, which I have yet to get the program to extract just what I want, but I am making progress slow and sure. I am [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on May 12th, 2007
My What Time Do I Leave Friday program had a minor update today. No change to the main program, but the installer no longer chokes if your version of the .Net framework isn't exactly as needed (sometimes it would have a problem if you had a newer version). It still checks your .Net version, and [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on May 7th, 2007
What I meant to say in my previous post about my Lottery Program before I got too distracted, was to continue on about selling the program in a few stores that I figure are more or less a lock to get into, short of it being against the rules for them to sell it there. [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on May 6th, 2007
Continuing where I left off with regards to My Lottery Program that I want to make.
It also occurred to me while starting out the design there are several stores that I could sell it in if I can get it to a semi-professional status. All of them sell lottery tickets, so it would be a [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on May 6th, 2007
While checking out the USA Mega site yesterday, which I mentioned in my lottery post, I was browsing around I and found their Mega Millions Statistics. It seems some numbers come up more often than others, a statistical anomaly one would suppose, but one that is there none the less. For example, 25 has [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming, Visual Basic on Mar 9th, 2007
Microsoft has launched their Beginner Developer Learning Center which takes people from no programming experience to a basic level of experience. It teaches Visual Basic and/or C# whichever one want. The first thing you decide is which track you want, Web Development for dynamic web sites, web applications and services, or Windows Development for making [...]
Posted in PHP, Programming, WordPress on Dec 24th, 2006
Calling all Wordpress Widget experts, I am trying to write my own widget, but I am not having luck. I get it to show up in the plugins and activate it, but it doesn't show on the widget list.
I know about Chris Johnson's Tag Cloud Widget, but the cloud doesn't show for one thing, and [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Sep 9th, 2006
I made a couple minor changes to my What Time Do I Leave Friday program that I made. This brings the beta from 0.5 to 0.5.3. One of the changes was behind the scenes and doesn't matter to the end user. The other change was having the program check to see if the user entered [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Aug 27th, 2006
My What Time Do I Leave Friday program is ready for testing. Contact me for the setup file. I can either send it as a zip file, where you unzip it and click the setup.exe, or just send the setup.exe file itself. The zip file is 188kb (under a half minute for most people) and [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Aug 25th, 2006
My program What Time Do I Leave Friday will be ready for testing this weekend (26th or probably 27th of August). Let me know if you want to give it to help out and test it out.
The system requirements are a Windows PC (likely will need Windows XP or Windows 98/ME as it needs .Net [...]
Posted in General, Programming on Aug 21st, 2006
In order to become a better developer, I figure these are the things I need. So if anyone out there has a ton of money just wasting away and looking for a good cause...
A good laptop so I can work on my programs when things are dead at work... which was often, but starting [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Aug 17th, 2006
If there are any C# programmers out there reading this, perhaps you can help.
First I'll repost a screen shot of the program I am working on:
Under the Action menu, there is an option to change the Standard Work Week (by default set to 40:00). When the user selects that, the standard work week text box [...]
Posted in Programming on Aug 17th, 2006
Steven Smith at Microsoft is taking names for Microsoft's Atlas (more or less Microsoft's version of AJAX with enhancements). I personally like his suggestion of "Web Technology Framework - WTF (!)" but it is missing the word Foundation, which seems to be on lots of Microsoft technology these days, perhaps switch Framework with Foundation and [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Aug 15th, 2006
I thought about the fact that some people may not have the time they worked so far in the week, just a time sheet of times in and out. I don't want to turn this into a time clock application, but I decided that I would add a Hours Worked So Far Calculator to [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Aug 14th, 2006
Here a screenshots of Beta 2 of my program, What Time Do I Leave Friday (my first semi-practical program):
The main screen:
Here the user enters the total hours they worked so far this week (using the action menu they can change the standard work week hours from 40:00), they also enter the time they got in [...]
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