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Friday November 06, 2009
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Carl Sagan sings (with help from Stephen Hawking)this seemed kind of dumb, then geeky, then quite moving... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
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Dr.Frog - Nice blog entry about DonationCoder.com and Coding SnacksThe Coding Snacks section of the DC forum can be a kind of magical place. People post requests for small utilities and if they are lucky, wake up in the morning to find a free brand new sparkling program written to do what they asked. If you talk to the coders that participate in that section you'll find that their motivation is really about the enjoyment of programming. But part of the enjoyment is also related to knowing that you are making something that someone needs and appreciates. That's why it's so satisfying and reinvigorating to read blog entries like this one.. Quote How I Got Someone to Make This For Me, or Why DonationCoder.com Is Pretty Awesome: ... I posted my issue on the DonationCoder forum, and very quickly received a response. A word about these guys: they know their software pretty well. Several talented and patient developers frequent the forum and are often ready with helpful advice or a solution for clearly-stated issues. Some of these guys have created literally hundreds of “Coding Snacks,” whose use cases range from the basic to the utterly arcane. In all cases, someone just like me piped up with a small, unique problem that had no prior solution, and someone stepped forward to help out. In my case, developer Skwire came to the rescue. Within a few forum posts, I had the software I needed.. http://drfrog.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/mat/
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Thursday November 05, 2009
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Announcing tfdocs.com (The Tree Form Machine)I'm proud to announce the public beta opening of my latest project, The Tree Form Machine website (http://www.tfdocs.com). This is a website based on my windows desktop application known as "The Form Letter Machine" It's a site where people can create and share interactive forms -- forms that can be used by others to assemble detailed output documents with just a few clicks of the mouse. The Tree Form Machine makes it easy to create:
There's no content to speak of on the site (yet), and there are lot's of areas that could use improvement, but i'm hoping to get some feedback and hear from people who think it might be useful to them. Visite website: Good sample TF doc that combines the MIT+BSD+ZLIB Open Source Licenses:
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Wednesday November 04, 2009
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The Soda Pop Stop - Giant store that only sells soda.. what a sweet videoThis brought such a smile to my face.. Yet another reminder that to simply walk along the well-trodden paths in life is to miss out on all the fun. http://www.youtube.com/wa...M&feature=player_embedded
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Friday October 30, 2009
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Paragon Drive Backup+Recovery 10 Free - good full drive imaging toolJust tried this free drive backup tool and was very impressed. I normally use Acronis but that's becoming a very bloated expensive tool. This paragon tool did a very good job, was easy to use, and has a nice bootable rescue cd builder in the program. Was fast too. If you don't yet have a drive imaging tool, or especially if you have family members with desktop/laptop/netbook computers, and want a legal free good drive imaging tool to install on their computer, i highly recommend this  http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/
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Thursday October 29, 2009
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Unity Game Engine now freeStumbled onto this yesterday on TIGSource, realized it could be interesting today  So, Unity Technologies released a free, limited version of its Unity Game Engine, a game development tool similar to Torque Game Builder. Targeted at independent developers, it lacks a bunch of the advanced features the paid version has, but still looks interesting enough for those interested in game creation. http://unity3d.com/unity/ For those interested in what you can achieve with it, Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
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Sunday October 25, 2009
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Flash TD Game of the Week: Bloons Tower Defense 4Everyone knows that I (and DC in general) love the tower defense game genre, where you place defensive towers on a map to defend against wave after wave of attacking forces. It's just the right level of interactivity and attention for my tastes. And now comes the 4th in a series of 3 increasingly well done tower defense games based on the "Bloons" series, which is notable for it's high production values and excellent cartoony graphics. You can read about the first three releases here on DC, or jump to the review of Bloons Tower Defense 4 on JayIsGames.com: Quote Graphics have improved tremendously, especially with the new monkey ace and monkey buccaneer towers. The new upgrades are fabulous, especially the fifth level upgrades. A wonderful addition is the use of military stripes to indicate how much a tower has been upgraded, eliminating the need to click on every tower to see what level it is at. Old favorites are still along for the ride, such as the super monkey's plasma vision and the ever popular flying monkey blitz attack. A lot of effort has gone into making this a fun, fantastic experience. http://www.ninjakiwi.com/...oons-Tower-Defense-4.html
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Friday October 23, 2009
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Inside Windows 7 ReduxLast year, Microsoft's Channel 9 interviewed Windows expert Mark Russinovich to discuss many of the refinements and new features introduced in Windows 7 to ensure it would run and scale better with newer hardware that previous versions of Windows. To celebrate Windows 7 release, Channel 9 has interviewed Mark again to talk about the rest of the new technologies and changes that, due to time constraints, were not discussed in the first interview. http://channel9.msdn.com/...h-Inside-Windows-7-Redux/ It's a pretty long video, but if it's like the first one (which I advise you to watch prior this one), it's worth the time. Specially interesting is the demo showing Windows 7 running on a machine with an astounding 256 processors. User machines won't be hitting that ceiling anytime soon.
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Wednesday October 21, 2009
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 You have a computer backup plan.. but does it work?Are you sure that the backup procedure you use will save you when (not if) the time comes that you need it? I thought I would start a thread about how to test it and make sure it will. First let's set the ground rules:
Ok, so let's get started: Click here to read the full thread and discuss..
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Tuesday October 20, 2009
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JayIsGames.com - Casual Gameplay Design Competition #6 Entries are Now PlayableYou can now play all of the entries to the JayIsGames Casual Gameplay Design Competition #6! http://jayisgames.com/cgdc6/
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Monday October 19, 2009
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Coding Snack: Warning that I'm on Battery powerA DC member asks: I was doing a presentation on Sat, and I guess my power cord wasn't plugged in all the way, so I was on battery power. Died halfway thru the presentation in front of 1000 people, and went in hiberation. Bad!! I use the laptop for audio so they don't see the screen. I want a small flashing box on my screen every time I'm on battery power so this never happens again. Anyone seen such a tiny program? Click here to read more and download the coding snack written by a dc member..
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Sunday October 18, 2009
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Tech News Weekly: Edition 42-09The latest edition of Tech News Weekly is out:
Click here to read the full edition now..
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Thursday October 15, 2009
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 Coding Snack: My text file manipulation needsA DC member asks: Hallo! I am a writer and not a programmer, but am in search of easy to use tools to tackle simple tasks. They are almost always associated with text files & a tagged CSV English - German dictionary. For the tasks I have I would like to try and use AutoHotKey. I seem to have no luck with programming languages. The task I am trying to perform is: 1. Open a simple text file of sentences. 2. Open a CSV dictionary file 3. Read words in turn from the text file, find them each in the dictionary and 4. Copy the Parts-of-Speech for each from dictionary 5. Write the tags in brackets following each word in the text file. Is it possible to do this uising AutoHotKey? Has anyne tried it or done it? Can he or she help me? Or has one of the donation-coders a better way? I'd be very grateful. Thanks and regards, forkinpm. Click here to read more and download the utility written by dc member Skwire..
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