the Daniel Story

Good morning, you haven’t noticed anything different have you?

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As I was zipping up a project I wanted to test it, by unzipping it and running it in a different folder. While zip archive compress text files great it shouldn’t take two minutes for such little amount of files!

I completed more of CodeViewer.org and changed a rule. Firstly, I fixed the (+)Increase (-)Decrease buttons to resize the text box area when uploading a code snippet. Secondly, there is a floating scrollbar when viewing code snippet that is larger (width wise) than the browser window. This makes it easier to scroll on the x-axis by not having to scroll down to the bottom scroll-bar then back to your last position. Fourth, my code purging is more automated now (though you don’t really see this). And last but not least, when you upload a code snippet and provide your e-mail, you will get an e-mail about two weeks later warning you your code snippet will expire within a week. Which is typical but instead of my original plan where the “guest upload-er” had to extend the code snippet for viewing online every three weeks, now when you extend the code snippet it will forever be available until request to be removed.

Other updates in life soon,
Peaches Out.

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I am a programmer at mind and an electrics enthusiast in heart. So while programming an API interface around a PIC board for Guy-Tek’s latest product, I thought to myself why not try to learn more about electrics by programming a PIC. Now I’m not so great with the whole ASM and C world so I went looking around for a microchip that would be easy to understand so I wouldn’t have to learn an entirely new program language. I found a few, but to me the best ones are the OOPic, and Arduino. OOPic quite interesting with an Object-Oriented language with choices of a Basic, C, and Java syntaxes. While the Ardunino being only C syntax, it revolved around more of the computer – microchip communications. So I decided to first start with the Ardunino, being it was also cheaper it wouldn’t be such a large paper weight if I play dumb.
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