I’ve been playing around with C# and Mono lately. I’ve written my first (nominally) useful app. It’s a simple application to mark myself away. Basically I can use it to set an away message in a central place. Then, any application with a concept of “awayness” can (using a plugin), read [...]
It’s bloody useless and really simple, but it works and was really easy to write. I created the GUI in Glade, a GNOME program which outputs the UI as XML. Then using Glade# I can load the UI and connect the signals from the XML file. And since in C# I can [...]
At work we’ve had the need to view diagrams showing the data flow from one “thread” to another within a Cloverleaf Site. For quite some time we’ve used Visio diagrams, however there are a number of issues with this approach. Philosophically and practically I have an issue with the file formats being a [...]
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Ryan and I are having a Christmas party at our flat and you’re invited.
When: Saturday, December 21st. 7pm until whenever.
Where: “The Castle”
Why: Why not?
We’ll have drinks at “The Castle” (the name we’ve given our place now that
we’ve built a bar), music, conversation, games, snacks, etc.
We may continue the “tradition” of trimming the tree. [...]
I’m working on an integration interface at work where I’m going to be converting an XML file into ultimately, HL7. However, first I need to build a formatted report with fields filled in from the XML file. Later on I’m going to use the Cloverleaf engine to mutilate the report and end up [...]
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I took a long lunch today to go to the Collector’s office in Clayton and the DOR in Maplewood to get personal property tax receipts and license plates for my new car. I stopped by home to get my checkbook and paperwork and heard from Ryan that the police found his stolen car. [...]
Happy (belated) Birthday! Cheers!
I had an enjoyable 4-day holiday weekend. Amy and I went over to my family’s for Thanksgiving dinner around noon. Neal and Lauren introduced Amy and me to a really fun board game, Settlers of Catan. Definitely worth buying. I think I’ll be asking for it for Christmas and if that [...]
