http://quarter-flash.com/wp The ramblings of a new writer Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:47:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now, I'm not a major music seeker, but on occasion I like to listen to something other than the local station. Recently I've had more time to look for music because they changed up the Morning Show and it's just not as much fun any more. I ran across this site ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2008/10/23/free-music/ I've decided, as I may have mentioned before, that I plan on using C# and GTK# built using MonoDevelop as my cross-platform platform of choice. I've always had one problem with this - getting the GUI to be responsive. You have to understand that I've been programming a long time (the ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2008/08/03/gtk-tutorial/ For a project I'm working on I needed an assembly that would easily parse a command line. "A command line? What's that?"  you might ask. I understand that most of the programs you run always start up with a GUI that you can then use to set up all your parameters. ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2008/07/22/net-command-line-parsing/ Someday I'll get good at this blogging stuff - so far I really suck at any kind of regularity. At any rate, you just gotta check out this link - it's very cool, but a bit creepy. It's called Big Dog and it's a 4 legged autonomous "vehicle". Watching the video ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2008/07/15/very-cool-research/ Sometimes the wrong word in the right place can give a whole new meaning to what's written. In a recent email to a Linux mailing list about backups and backup strategies, we find the following: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 08:36 -0700, XXXXX XXXXX wrote: > > Fifth, restore capabilities are only a ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2007/11/06/typos-can-be-fun/ This is part 3 of the Open Source Takeover series. I had to make a change to the user interface as I didn't understand how a couple of the widgets were meant to be used. Here's the new and, pending some input from actual users, final look of the ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2007/11/04/imageresizer/ I now have a working resizer/watermarker, but it only works if I manually edit the configuration file. This is because the original author had a separate config program and that was written with some sort of code generator. That's not a bad thing, mind you, except for the fact that ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2007/11/03/open-source-takeover-part-2/ OK, so it's not that dramatic - but here's the story. I've recently gotten involved with a group called <a href="http://eons.com" target="_blank">Eons</a>, a website that's targeted toward the over 50 folks. I'm involved in the Better Photography group, and the subject came up about someone's image being "borrowed" by a different ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2007/10/29/open-source-takeover/ I've started on what I'm calling Chapter 1 - Setup.  I decided to refer absolute beginners to an appendix for full install instructions and only detail installation for the assemblies and dlls that are required for the project. So far I have 4 pages! Yes, I know it's a very ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2007/09/11/chapter-1/ I'm glad I have a mentor in this process. Right now he has the confidence in me that I don't (yet.)  I'm just having a hard time getting started. The first chapter is all about getting set up. Since the book is about coding you have to have some tools installed ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2007/09/08/starting-the-book/