Acemuzzy’s Positronic Blog

Right, well my photo program is pretty much finished now!  I’m not going to upload it quite yet, but I thought I’d at least point you at the photos which are now up.
So, HERE’S MY PHOTO ALBUM!
In terms of my wish list, it provides a slideshow & album view, as selected from a database, but [...]

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OK, in this post I challenged myself to write an album-producing GUI in C#.  This blog attempts to document my attempts to do so!
What I did!
C# stuff

Cranked up Visual Studio C# 2008, and sketch out some UI.
Discovered some (for me) new controls (including tabs, progress bars etc., and browsing to the desired directory.
Got it to [...]

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I’ve finally bought VS PHP.  I like it!  Great UI for writing PHP code.

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Right, I definitely prefer developing in Silverlight than Flash.  The IDE is much clearner, but the real winner is the productivity of C#, and libraries that I understand, vs. whatever Adobe decides to devise.  Some might view that as me being an MS-phile; even if that is the case (I don’t think I am!), that [...]

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There are some extra bullets I should have added to my initial comparisons. Cost, the IDE, and ease of use.
Java

The actual JDK doesn’t come with an IDE.  It has a command line interface, i.e.

javac MyClass.class

java MyClass

 A friend directed me to a freely available IDE, however, called Eclipse.  This seems pretty decent for most Java stuff, [...]

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This is what I’ve been working on recently.
I’ve so far downloaded Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, which includes a free 30 day trial. There are some good examples and tutorials on the Adobe web page.
So far, I’ve got this page up and running!

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Right, well, it’s been a while since my last post!  (Not helped by the fact that WordPress seemed to delete it half way through!)
I haven’t looked at any XNA stuff recently, I’ve been mucking about with various new web stuff - driven by the discovery of what I’ll be working on in my new Software [...]

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I haven’t had much time to do stuff over the last few evenings…
… mainly due to GTA IV …
… OK, and COD 4.
Anyway, I’ve made some progress with CSS and PHP.  I’ve written some basic functions to help me with my page - like displaying headers, text, code etc.  - and I’ve written a couple [...]

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So this time, I’m trying to do my site properly.  For example, I’m going to have proper PHP functions for eg. drawing the title at the top of each page - rather than copying the same HTML code betwen pages.  I’m also going to be using CSS.

Even on drafting up the first few pages, I’ve [...]

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Last night, I tried to remember the very basics of PHP - but got nowhere!  Whilst W3Schools again has some very useful advice, they simply didn’t work on my webpage, when I uploaded them within index.htm.  Even the basic
<?php echo “MyName”; ?>
Gave nothing, which concerned me; the page displayed as if nothing was there. But [...]

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