When I first got my gTablet I downloaded a whole bunch of apps. I grabbed free apps from the Marketplace. Amazon gives away a free app every day from its Marketplace. I mean, I was an app downloading maniac.
And yet now, I’m more subdued. I don’t always remember to bring it to work, and even when I do there are days that it doesn’t come out of its case!
Yesterday at work a coworker who is working with some map APIs and census data found an interesting anomaly. It turns out that if your GPS location is on the Tappan Zee Bridge you don’t have a zip code. This is important if you’re trying to give physical address locations to GPS coordinates.
While he went off to figure out what he was going to do with this discovery, I went on my merry way, not thinking about it until later that night—while sleeping.
So, this is the second time that I’ve had to rebuild my gTablet. Fortunately, I have a backup from back when it was stock before I installed TnT 4.4, so I’m always able to go back there, but what’s my problem with not doing more frequent backups?
I mean, seriously!
I write software, and it’s happened before. Grr…
What happens when you have a branch that you’re working in that has stuff in it that really doesn’t belong with the name. I mean, naming is one of things that can be the most tricky.
Is renaming a branch hard? Nope.
Bingo!
One of the problems with managing and writing for multiple blogs in advance of the current date is that I can never really remember what I have written in advance of today, what needs more written and what I’m good with.
There are some neat plugins for managing a single blog.
Speaking of my gTablet, the best thing you can do for it is to “root” it. The hardest part of this isn’t the actual process—it’s making sure you find something that’s up to date.
You see, when the gTablet first came out there was a lot of trouble with performance—and many people returned theirs. So there are a lot of posts out there talking about it, how much is stinks, and even some of the instructions on how to make it better are out of date.
Woot had a deal on a ViewSonic gTablet, so at ~ $280 I couldn’t pass it up. For some time I’ve wanted to try out tablet technology, and I’m definitely liking how intuitive it is to do some things.
That being said, there are hiccups, and I did root the thing.
So, up until now I’ve not quite known what to do with this blog. I mean, I know that I should use it to take advantage of my software engineering knowledge-base, but the blogger in me knows that I should have regular content, and as I’ve been trying to keep Is This Modest and MInTheGap at least functioning, I haven’t had the time to devote to this blog.
But what if this blog were to capture my thoughts and links as part of a service to myself. If I made it handy to me, perhaps it would be handy to a reader as well—at least one reader is better than none, right?
Every time you get a friend request—someone adds you to Facebook, you get a notification.
Now, wouldn’t it be nice to know when someone unfriends you?
One way is to follow the instructions at this post: Catch who removed you from Facebook…!
But for those of you that would prefer not to run a script, you can try a Grease Monkey Script and you should be good to go!
When I was 8, my dad tried to teach me what he did. He was a “Computer Programmer†and did a lot of work in BASIC.
Needless to say, I didn’t grasp a lot, and I really didn’t understand all the GOTOs and line numbers, but I was able to take a program that he made and modify it, and a few short years later I built the voting program for my public high school’s Student Government Election.
Called “Small Basicâ€, Microsoft has created a friendly environment that kids can use basic instructions to make programs and games. It uses the VB style coding and the .NET framework as a basis, and gives a panel that tells all about what commands you can use.
What I also like, as a dad, is that they’ve even include a curriculum with power point slides—6 Lessons, most of which are broken up into subparts.
I would see this as a great introduction to programming for kids and teens as well. I think I’m going to try this with my kids—at least the oldest—and I’ll let you know my experience with it.
Want to try it? Click on the image above to go to the Small Basic site. It’s a free download, and away you go!
