I did some minor tweaking to the code that wxGlade shot out. It works (and looks decent) in multiple platforms now. I need to do a FreeBSD virtual machine to give it a go in. I’d like to do an OS X one too, but there are butt loads of legality issues there that I’m not touching… http://71.201.65.239/projects/imagecloud/images/screens/2007.02.26.png.

kristofer

I’ve been pretty busy with school, so I haven’t had much time to update this beast. I’ve gotten http://71.201.65.239/projects/imagecloud/images/screens/2007.02.25.png done though. That’s my personal server, so if it goes down, you know why. I’ve also moved over to a Debian Etch install, and it’s sweet

kristofer

I’ve been working on IC in C (that’s kinda’ fun to say in the “J2 in the ER” way*). I did a paste, it’s at [dead paste] , but it’s only good for 24hrs, so it might not be there when you click. Otherwise, check: http://71.201.65.239/projects/imagecloud/ . No, the site isn’t finished either.

*See “Lucy, Daughter of the Devil” from Adult Swim or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbP0rEtPrQ

Well, classes have resumed. not much happened over break. I didn’t accomplish anything I planned on, besides the first chapter of C. IC has a gui (too alpha to share). and… for the geek / nerd in us all:

So, I’m back in Enlightenment. It was my first X11 Windowmanager, and it is still my favorite. The thing I love the most has to be the creativity that it allows for in theme-ing. Don’t get me wrong, I DO NOT theme. I’m far to lame to pull that off. What bothers me is the lack of creativity that I have appearing in the theme realm. My source for this opinion is http://www.themes.org/ , so if someone has a better site or example, please let me know. The thing is, most “themes” or “skins” are damn Aqua clones, or XP/Aero-like. Wtf? Where are the Bluesteels and eChaos of today? I know it seems like many people are moving to DM’s rather than WM’s, but come on folks. Luckily, E17 looks pretty good so far. I’m just waiting for a client stable enough for me to run in every day usage (I tried it, but I had a few too many segfaults for my taste).

Seeing as how my classes are now out for the winter break, and I’m back to my FreeBSD box, I have a chance to work on a few things. First off, I plan to be done with the C Book (‘The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie), touched on my Greek Lessons, and most importantly (okay, so it’s not the most important, the C book will probably help a lot with this…) is to make the Songbird Media Player (http://www.songbirdnest.com/) work in FreeBSD. Using the patch provided (some bugzilla posing) and the Apple makefile, it will supposedly compile. All I’ve managed to achieve so far is an arse load of errors with the make files and missing operations in the if statements. Good thing I’ve got nothing but time on my hands.

P.S.: A gui for imagecloud is in the pipeline too.

Since classes are wrapping up, and my dependence for Internet Explorer fades away, I get to go back to FreeBSD. I don’t know why I like it more; I can’t find a single rationale. All I know is that ports are fun. I had a few, *minor* hiccups while installing. Once was the fact it didn’t like my two DOS partitons, each being primary. To fix it, I simply converted one to NTFS, although in the process it seems to have lost my Las Vegas episodes. Luckily, my cartoons remained intact. I also did some digging in the /usr/ports folder and found that all the qemu stuff was in there (qemu, kqemu-kmod, and qemu-launcher), which is cool. I couldn’t find those in yum when I was running fedora. I does seem, however, with the kqemu-kmod loaded, the Win2k install takes a litte longer. Wonder why…

Wow, for not apparent reason, the blog has recieved a MASSIVE 64 hits so far today, as compared to the normals 15 – 20 a day. strange…

I’ve been working on imagecloud more, and listening to my sister tell me how it needs a gui for mass appeal. I don’t disagree, but I am the LAST person one wants designing one of those. Think… http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/wgetgui-screenshot.png . Don’t get me wrong, I love wget, but I don’t know that the average user loves that UI. Anyway, my sister is sketching what a sane UI would work like for me. Back in the code, where I actually work, I realized I don’t need that pointer for Glob() to return if I used a variable parameter instead of value and make it a procedure. Much simpler to work with then. I’m almost finished. I just need to complete the searching through the tags portion, and mayble look into what other libraries are available to it for graphic displaying (read : Thumbnails).