Posted in Programming/Software on May 21st, 2009 No Comments »
I haven’t written a single line of audio-related code since I stopped using C++ two years ago.
It’s not that you can’t write audio software with C#. It’s more that doing so would be more than unpleasant.
Since I’ve switched to Python as my primary language, I’m going to see what I can do with it [...]
Posted in Programming/Software, Web Design on Apr 21st, 2009 No Comments »
My current project is figuring out how to build sites with Django. It’s a bit tough to get a handle on because it’s a moving target. I have a book based on a pre-1.0 version. There are plenty of tutorials and videos on pre-1.0, 1.0, and the current development version (1.1). [...]
Posted in Programming/Software, Web Design on Apr 21st, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve spent the past couple days setting up an Ubuntu Server on VMWare. I’m building a development environment that I can use somewhere like Slicehost or Linode, and I want to get it set up so that it can run the 20 or so domains I have without chewing up all available resources.
There’s a [...]
Posted in Programming/Software on Apr 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I wrote a random character name generator in Python today. It’s HERE at Xangis.com.
Posted in Programming/Software on Apr 10th, 2009 No Comments »
I spent a couple days learning how to use the ASP.Net MVC framework and built a DMOZ-like link directory site as my first project. It’s online here:
VLACIS.com
The acronym is actually a backronym — I originally bought the domain for a large number of years when Yahoo was having a 99-cent domain sale. It was the [...]
Posted in Multi-User Dungeons, Programming/Software on Mar 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Over the past few years I’ve been working on Basternae 3 off and on (as I have time and motivation). The 100,000 or so lines of code are a very handy sandbox for learning/trying new things.
After not working on it for six months or so, I’ve started tinkering again. It’s no coincidence that it’s getting [...]
Posted in Financial, Programming/Software on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
I finished building and packaging up the stock viewer program, the “Champion Stock Chart Viewer”, and it’s now available for sale.
Check it out here: Champion-Analytics.com
Posted in Financial, Programming/Software on Jan 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
Here are a couple screenshots of the stock charting application I’ve been working on (click to enlarge):
As you can see, I still have some minor layout issues to sort out as the graph is resized, but that’s easy enough.
So far, the main features include:
- Line, Bar, and Candlestick charts
- Download of historical stock data from [...]
Posted in Financial, Programming/Software on Jan 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
I wrote an application to harvest historical stock data from Yahoo. It’s an interesting piece of homebrew and has allowed me to build up a database of 3 gigabytes of historical data so far using SQL Server Express 2008. Since Yahoo! data is specifically “for non-commercial use” I can’t exactly sell the database to anyone, [...]
Posted in Programming/Software on Jan 21st, 2009 No Comments »
As a programmer in the home automation industry I’m exposed to all sorts of devices from a wide array of manufacturers. Much of the hardware is pleasant to work with. I’ve enjoyed writing code for pieces by Samsung, Extron, Hitachi, KeyDigital, Gefen, Sharp, Panasonic, and many others. However, every time I get [...]