I have written a simple faro shuffle simulator which you can access here: https://robertjwallace.com///faro
It supports some common stacks and I will be adding more as time permits. Instructions are below.
Continue reading “Faro Shuffle Simulator”Old man, old cars, and old whisky
I have written a simple faro shuffle simulator which you can access here: https://robertjwallace.com///faro
It supports some common stacks and I will be adding more as time permits. Instructions are below.
Continue reading “Faro Shuffle Simulator”I have had a “smart” home for probably over thirty years. So I get amused by the “new” trends in home automation such as Philips Hue, and Wink, etc. The new technology is great, definitely better than what I have been using, but when I look at replacing what I have I find the costs to be prohibitive. Re-doing my house would cost about $1000 and in some ways not be as good as what I currently have.
Continue reading “Home Automation (smart home)”I am planning (actually have retired now) on retiring before or on my 65th birthday, so when a client wanted a countdown timer I checked one out. Since I am now retired it shows the time since I stopped working.
8 years, 5 months, 1 day, 10 hours, 7 minutes agoI am attempting to learn French once again. It was many years ago that I took a first term college class. it is amazing how many more resources we have today thanks to the internet. I am using the following tools:
Rosettastone software – While the product comes with CD’s, once you are registered you can access the on-line courses.
Babbel.com – Wow. For the money this is hard to beat. Six months for $40. Similar methodology to Rosettastone. I especially like the vocabuary review.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/
This site is not as good as babbel.com but it is free. It has learning games and some good lessons including “Basic French in 12 Weeks”
Google Translate. French to English and English to French
French verb conjugater test – very good. Both regular and irregular verbs.
French radio streamed from the internet. I listen to France Bleu Azur
This is what I deal with on a daily basis. Below is a simple two line JavaScript program:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
<meta name="generator" content="PSPad editor, www.pspad.com">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var status = "Uncached,Idle,Checking,Downloading,UpdateReady,Obsolete".split(/,/);
alert(status[1])
</script>
</body>
</html>
It simply splits a string on comma’s into an array.
Firefox, Opera and IE8 output an alert with "Idle"
Safari and Chrome output "n"
Arggghhhhh. To get it to work in Safari and Chrome the code needs to be changed to
var status = "Uncached,Idle,Checking,Downloading,UpdateReady,Obsolete";
statusArray = status.split(/,/);
alert(statusArray[1])
Finished coding and launching Eternity Celtic, a site featuring celtic wedding bands designed by my friend Chris Foleen. Check it out and tell your friends if they are looking for unique celtic wedding rings.
Just finished launching a web site for a friend. www.westportlandneurology.com A pretty simple five page site. Behind the scenes it is using a CMS system I designed that has no database, it used the file system as the database.