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Template change

2010-08-07T08:25:00.000-07:00

Implementing new design, blog may look awful/cease to function for a bit.

Cosmos Machine - Wallpaper

2010-07-25T20:25:00.000-07:00

Concept for wallpaper, finished product enroute.

Orcon Quota Meter 1.0 gadget (Beta)

2010-03-29T03:45:00.000-07:00

Lousy data caps, unreasonable excess data costs? Get the most out of your Orcon data. Monitor your data usage directly from the desktop with this minimal but informative gadget for Windows 7 – requires Orcon broadband. At a glance it displays data usage so far, projected quota – that is, the optimum usage for that day of the month, and the difference between the two. Its a simple task to

ListView style tricks - Revenge of the focus rectangle

2009-04-13T05:38:00.001-07:00

Convicts and focus rectangles don’t only share a penchant for alternating black and white, neither respect authority. When tabbing to any control, regardless of setting the ListView’s Tabstop property to false the black ‘n’ white’s are back! Upon the failure of my prior, somewhat crude attempt. I sifted through window messages looking for the right way to go about this. Surely if Windows Live

ListView style tricks

2009-03-12T21:55:00.000-07:00

Attempting to make a ListView control in C# resemble anything close to the ones showcased in Microsoft's own software - particularly in vista, unearths a slew of quirks and issues. In my endeavour to mimic the latest MS Live apps I spent hours sifting through Google, here’s what I’ve learnt. Enabling Vista selection glyph’s (as opposed to the solid blue bar) At first I tried setting up a

Apple & the Hundredth Monkey Effect

2009-02-01T09:10:00.000-08:00

We've all seen 'em - the insulting ad's inferring you can be cool like 'this guy' if you own a Mac, iPod or other insidious Apple gizmo. Why add to the endless tirade for/against? - The Hundredth Monkey Effect. A shameless excuse to weigh in, not to mention the theory has been debunked but it's namesake seemed uncannily appropriate and if nothing else it has neat ring. The “Hundredth Monkey

Panasonic or Panacolonic?

2009-01-31T09:24:00.000-08:00

I'm not much for brand loyalty though curiously I've always purchased Hewlett Packard computers, entirely unintentional just that they seem to sell the highest spec' d laptops at any given time in stores. Conversely I adhere rigorously to a brand blacklist; Panasonic's D-Snap SV-SD770V I find myself in the market for a new mp3 player, not because I need the latest gadgets, nor do I require

Gahh, bad blogger, bad

2009-01-05T14:49:00.001-08:00

Wretched blogger, the post count was incorrect on the blog homepage so when upon I decided to delete my old blog in all actuality I was deleting the new - confidently ignoring the 'This process will permanently delete all your posts' etc - Thank goodness I use Windows live writer which kept backups of my posts, that in combination with Google's cache.

Extending the width of Blogger's embedded comment form

2008-12-17T14:50:00.000-08:00

In order to alter the fixed width of the embedded blogger comment form one must reverse the abstraction a level. It is highly likely there's a good reason for this abstraction consider this method at your own peril - as can be evidenced in my last post - Though it is not responsible for the blogger bug mentioned in the edit. IMPORTANT (Method deprecated) Blogger seems to change the location

House of cards - Template bugs

2008-12-14T14:40:00.000-08:00

Seems the comment form is missing, apologies to anyone wanting to comment, perhaps blogger.com changed something, I thought it would be troublesome drilling through the abstraction in order to fiddle with the width of it - guess I was right. Also having issues with my lists, can't for the life of me figure out why my CSS selector won't target lists contained within a post. [Edit] And post dates

Vector Crop Circles - Photoshop shape collection

2008-12-13T14:41:00.000-08:00

I've always been fascinated by the intricacies of Crop Circles and have borrowed from them on occasion, It's easy to find an application be it design elements, backgrounds, texture decals, etchings or mere inspiration. They seem to a ooze a simplistic cool. I've collated the most striking or aspects of and added some home-brew, approximately half/half. I must confess for the most part I

Coloured Scrollbars, accessibility naysayers & natural selection

2008-11-28T14:35:00.000-08:00

I've read many an argument about why coloured scrollbars shouldn't be part of the W3C standard. By my estimates the nays are absurd. If we must conform to such stringent accessibility standards why then have I encountered numerous pages with cyan backgrounds or worse yet fuchsia (there's a reason these colours are used in alpha masking) If we were to tote the accessibility mantra should we then

Dilly dallying

2008-11-04T14:34:00.000-08:00

The new blog template is basically complete, still a few minor bugs to iron out - mainly in IE (naturally). Reasonably happy with it, though my perfectionist streak is yet to be satiated. The width now however is perfect, the default blogger templates allow very little room to breathe esp. when you want to post code sections. Revisited a piece I did for my portfolio in lieu of actual work

Succinct sanity

2008-10-24T15:32:00.000-07:00

I love the conditional ? /Ternary operator, there's a lot to be said for succinctness, I use it everywhere it fits and perhaps some places it doesn't, one has to wonder though at what point it starts to become incomprehensible compared to the verbose alternative of if-else statements. Have been sidetracked muddling with locale specific implementation however my configuration class is shaping up

Dialup dark ages

2008-10-18T15:31:00.000-07:00

It's been quite a hiatus, a new motherboard & HDD not to mention tediously updating vista at 44kbps (Dialup), I can finally get back to some programming. Finished paying off the laptop so I'm rejoining the broadband leagues - hurrah, so long to the dialup dark age. Have been restructuring my DirectX engine dropping the overuse of singletons - Perhaps naively? in light of some negative articles

Delays...

2008-07-01T15:30:00.000-07:00

Turns out after searching hi and low for the close button width it doesn't exist, nor is it possible to alter the sizing type for the caption buttons for those trying to work within the new bounds, furthermore this post suggests it may be impossible to change altogether. Regarding linked post, If MS continues to insist on this paradigm I'm considering a jihad against backwards

Aurora Storm – Photoshop Wallpaper

2008-06-22T03:13:00.000-07:00

First attempt at a semi realistic scene entirely in Photoshop – though the idea of mixing abstract aurora with realism was perhaps flawed from the get go. An interesting experiment nonetheless, particularly with depth grass. Ultimately, more work required but I grew frustrated with the concept before I managed to reach nirvana.