Ramblings of a Coder

Brainfarts of an idle mind.

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What now?

Friday 26 February 2010 at 9:45 pm

Well, the update seemed to go rather well. If i don’t mind saying so myself. Only thing is the pickit2toolcomment spam, I noticed a LOT of comment spam appearing in the older entries. So much that i had to enabled the Spam Quiz, Which i have enabled on entries over 14 days old. That seems *fingers crossed* to have cut it down to zero.. for the moment.

Still fighting away with the VS 2010 SDK trying to make the PicKit 2 available directly within the IDE itself. Actually  connecting to the hardware is in, Does that. Now I’m just trying to figure out how to work out various other things. I love that they’ve given a SDK, but i hate that finding information on actually using it is an exercise in pulling teeth solo. I’m sure I'll struggle through and suss it though.

For tonight though i think I’m done, Got a choice of movies to pick from tonight, Funny People or Seven Pounds. Which will be after True blood. I was planning on finishing off Halo 3 : ODST, but i accidentally finished it earlier today. So it’ll have to be movies and TV programs, then if I’m still awake maybe some more work on the project or finish off Prototype. Undecided.

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Update complete!

Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 9:25 pm

Finally, I got round to finishing this update. Well semi finished, Its finished enough to be live now. But i'm sure over the coming week's I'll tweak it ever more.

Parts to tweak are certainly the sidebar, Need to tweak the archives section a bit to a slightly different useage. And fix the links section, Get my friends back in there.

And of course post more! So i'll be creating a nice little projects section. And i DO have some stuff to post in that already. But i'll leave that for another day. For now i'm just going to sit and relax and pray it stops snowing and maybe starts raining so there is no snow left tomorrow morning.

I've recently starting cycling again (Read that as Once so far) but with the snow last night i couldn't get out today, so really hoping its all gone tomorrow morning so i can get back out.

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Time passing.

Saturday 20 February 2010 at 4:09 pm

Yea, so much for that update. Its not quite done yet to my satisfaction, Can't seem to get the graphics just how i picture them in my head. But I am progressing to that point, just slightly slower than i hoped.

 

Also been working on a few other projects, some using the Microchip's PIC range of MCU's. One I'm really enjoying that morduun and Shadee though of the concept for, Lots of learning in that one and I've been going REALLY slow on it, mostly because i keep stopping to finish coursework and stuff. But i do keep returning to it.

Also i little side project from the PIC one is putting the PIC C compiler into Visual Studio 2010, Which using the build environment stuff I've managed to-do to some extent. Now I'm working on a add-in for Visual Studio itself to control the programmer directly from within the IDE. Just a time saver and because i never have actually wrote an extension for Visual Studio in my life. So its another learning experience for me. Microchip themselves give C# code on there website for the PicKit 2 Programmer Software. So that side is much easier than I'd initially expected.

 

Also got some work on doing Updates to certain websites, slow going as always with these. Awaiting feedback etc.. i hate that part.

And course the Degree work, Still working away on that. Just purchased previous exam papers for my end of year exam, Bought the past 5 years. Got them in the mail. no solutions, wtf? Kind of useless without solutions really. I did plan on using them as Mock Exams, sticking to the time limits and materials of the actual exam. But that's kind of pointless now as i can't grade them when I'm finished. Wish I'd know that before buying them.

 

That's basically what's going on in my life at the moment, Mix in a unhealthy amount of TV and that's it exactly. I must say though, Loving Caprica.  I wasn't to eager about it because of the whole C-Span/BBC Parliament in space that was the Battlestar Galactica remake. But i think they've hit it spot on with Caprica.

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Update Coming… Very Soon

Wednesday 10 February 2010 at 11:40 pm

Not posted in a while, I've no real reason for it. Just haven't really had anything much to say.  Been working on that update i mentioned in my last post, Finally getting somewhere withblogupdate it (read as finally got off my arse and did something), and I'm hopeful that I'll be finished with it within the week. Unless something else comes up before then. And i certainly do have stuff to post about now, so expect some updates once I've migrated over to the new design.

 

The image is a VERY ROUGH draft of the template i'm creating, The colours aren't anywhere near correct i just picked them for the shock value to instantly see layout problems while designing it. But I'm happy with the entries layout so far, Just have to fix the headers, footers and side bars to my liking but i have ideas for that also. Anyway must get back, Kirsty kindly picked up Assassin's Creed II for me today and i think I hear it calling my name in the background. 

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