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[Dec. 18th, 2008|11:22 am] |
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So i guess the question is this: Am i yet lonely, sad, and in need of affection badly enough to wander back to this shit hole to bitch about it? |
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| it's been swell, but the swelling's gone down. |
[Mar. 14th, 2007|01:09 am] |
so i'm planning on starting a blog soon (in the next few days) to document the problems and solutions that i've run in to while working on my current programming project. Basically i'm doing this based on 3 ideas/observations.
1) a plain and simple need to give back to the community. I own countless books on programming but I can still honestly say that the majority of the knowlege i have came from poking around on newsgroups, forums, blogs, online tutorials, msdn, et cetera.
2) I'm a C++ programmer at heart. It's where i started (after moving through the intro languages such as Basic (not VB, but basic. Think QBasic, in my case) in my very early life and... well, i guess i can't really put anything else in the same catagory as Basic. But i also learned alot of languages i didn't need like Perl and PHP.
3) There is virtually no online information about C++/CLI (yes, i'm coding against the framework. I know... But honestly, it works for me in the context that i'm working in). Those of you who code on the framework in C++/CLI know that the online examples in C# are pretty easy to translate. All you really have to do is use hats (^) after variables, use gcnew instead of new, and use either :: (in the case of namespaces) or -> (in the case of handles as opposed to . in c#). However, i find that it's easier to learn this stuff in your native language instead of having to translate everything.
I know that there are several of you who are hardcore C fanatics, but... well, shut up. I can't write about something i don't know and you wouldn't want me to anyway.
I digress. It's obvious that very few of my friends are coders and only a small percentage of those friends are into C++. This isn't really for those crowds. I'm hoping i'll reach a broader demographic of non-friends and hopefully make some new friends in the process.
This also ties in with another idea. I'm definately going to delete my LJ account now. I'll leave it up for a week or two while i back it up and just so that this particular post stays around for a bit for those interested that don't happen to see it tomorrow or the next day. I only read my friends page every month or so and when i do, i'm constantly disappointed by the quality of posting. Maybe i'm just looking for different things than you are, but this place Sucks. I realize now that i'm part of the problem so i'm outta here. You can catch my music on Myspace and you can find me the same places you always have. For those of you who don't know:
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/emotikon
AIM: v0dk4 wh0r3
msn: t3sture at spam.sucks.no.plz.thx boldar.com or chris at spam.sucks.no.plz.thx tsmlaw.com
skype: t3sture
cellphone: don't bother. I never answer it.
things i plan to cover in the new blog to start with:
wxWidgets (i'm not using it anymore but i learned alot about it when i did)
Windows Forms (currently using it. Still not quite completely comfortable with it, but i will be soon)
Database access in MySQL and PostgreSQL
Speech recognition and sythesis (both inside Microsoft technologies and outside)
Managed code (including interop)
Cross-platform development (Windows, OS X, and Linux)
Low-level hardware interfaces
MIDI interfacing (with external hardware, not soundard shite)
DSP
Microsoft Office interop
Open XML access from C++ (framework and native)
Whatever else i feel like talking about. |
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| Harry Conick Jr. |
[Mar. 8th, 2007|11:00 pm] |
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Charlotte and i saw Harry Conick Jr. tonight at the VBC from the 6th row. Awesome show! Looking forward to taking my parents next time. |
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| Augmented Reality |
[Feb. 26th, 2007|08:05 pm] |
Over the past few years i've been tracking the progress of augmented reality projects in various universities and i think now is a good time (enough information available and hardware costs reasonable) to start tinkering with it. If anyone else (preferably decent programmers, EE geeks, and optics majors) are interested in it as well, i'd love to talk with you about it and possibly start working on something tangible.
For starters, i think just a simple DIY hardware setup that always displays the date and time at some fixed point in your vision. From there, who knows.
For the moment (and foreseeable future) it would be a very casual hobby. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 20th, 2007|05:18 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Front 242 - Waste | ] |
it seems that I'm always upsetting people. I can't help it. Well, i can, i guess, but it's just the way i am.
I'm a very goal oriented person and as soon as one goal is reached, i have 3 more to work towards. Unfortunately they're goals that no on else finds interesting or worthy of the time i spend on them. For instance, I started writing software to make my boss' life easier. He didn't ask me to, but i've been wanting to code again for a long time and this just seemed like an opportunity to get back in to it while being paid to do what i love. Since the very moment that i started the project i've devoted as much time to it as humanly possible even to the point of neglecting everyone i love. I just can't rest until it's finished. When i do take breaks, i get completely obsessed with something else technical like working out flaws in my graphics driver or researching things to be used in my next software project. That's just how i am. I love technology. I love that i can make a computer do whatever i want to just by sitting down and typing for a few hours. And the more i do it, the more i realize i can do. It's empowering in a way. I'm naturally a very emotional, involved, loyal, sexual, and energetic person, but my methods cause me to seem otherwise. Sometimes i feel like i should apologize for it, but most of the time i just think that if it's how i am, it should be accepted or ignored. Selfish, i know, but am i wrong in this? How else can one survive and be happy? And do i hold on to those that i love while constantly disappointing them? Or do i completely let go knowing that I'll regret it and miss them but know that I'm not hurting anyone? How do i justify myself? And more importantly, why am i asking you? Wow, dramatic...
while (m_lifestyle == ID_CURRENT) {
bool moodHappiness = false;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < friends->m_joy; ++i) {
bool fail = true;
point = NULL;
}
}
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| Word automation makes my head hurt |
[Jan. 9th, 2007|04:05 pm] |
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anyone know how to fill bookmarks in a Word document from C++ if you're not using Access? All the information online is on Visual Basic or C#... :'( |
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| pissed off and i havn't smoked all day |
[Dec. 14th, 2006|04:47 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | c++, wxgrid, wxwidgets | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | music |
| | humming computers and my nails scraping the leather seat | ] |
If i have to hear "it's not a bug, it's a feature" one more time tonight, i'm going to kill someone. Okay, kids. If the member function is called blah->GetSelectedCells and it's return type is wxGridCellCoordsArray... what do you think it does? Well, unless you said "absolutely nothing", you're wrong. But i feel so good to know now that this is the intended behavior... FUCK! |
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| Beat that, bitches. Score:1575 |
[Nov. 6th, 2006|05:02 pm] |
Well, i don't have mario bed sheets, but i do happen to be wearing mario boxers right now and my Nintendo DS is sitting on my desk next to me at work. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 29th, 2006|10:03 am] |
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I've lost a trial for the first time. Fuck you, Houston County jury pool... |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 27th, 2006|04:36 pm] |
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neurology tests came back negative. Dad's in the clear. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 26th, 2006|11:20 pm] |
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I'm very scared for my father. |
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| Dothan is for the lonely... |
[Sep. 24th, 2006|11:47 pm] |
Chilling in a hotel room in Dothan in bad need of a shave...
*EDIT* I was on the phone with charlotte... not just being a yuppie... |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 19th, 2006|10:14 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The English Beat - Save It For Later | ] |
Well, i'm leaving for a trial in Dothan on the 22nd and returning on the 30th. Goodbye, you lizard scum! |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 28th, 2006|10:52 am] |
Okay so i picked up the 4GB hard drive for my DS and i've been experimenting with roms. It's been alot of fun so far. In a few hours i'm gonna try to play a movie on it. Also, i'm gonna try out NitroTracker for some old school music production on the DS. It looks like a pretty exciting program with a lot of potential. It's also a bit nostalgic as it looks like ImpulseTracker (which i havn't used since... freshman year in highschool i think).
Anyway, just so you know what i'm up to these days. Oh and of course i'll be doing some coding for the DS too. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 15th, 2006|03:50 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | trying to cope. | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made Of Sand | ] |
i can't do this anymore. My aunt is in the hospital, charlotte is in germany, and my phone didn't work for a couple days so i wasn't able to talk to her. She's coming back on the 20th. Earlier than i'd planned so that's good. I havn't eaten since thursday and i can't sleep. In order to get some rest i have to drink myself stupid and pass out. Her parents don't want me to go pick her up in atlanta when she gets back, but fuck them. I'm going anyway.
There's no point to this post. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 28th, 2006|11:54 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Police - Bring On The Night | ] |
well, having a bit of a rough time with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) imp32 being in Germany, but i'll hold in. Someone buy me a drink or something. |
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