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.
Continúa leyendo "Home Automation (smart home)"Word games (Scrabble, Word with Friends)
I enjoy playing Word with Friends. I play often with my sister. I developed a training aid which you can use. To access it go to https://robertjwallace.com///wordgame
Retirement
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.
Hace 8 años, 6 meses, 12 días, 15 horas, 48 minutos,Learning French
I 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
JavaScript programing
I recently bought a Barnes and Nobel Color Nook e-book reader and promptly hacked it into an Android tablet (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/). One of the games I then download to the tablet was “Word Game” by Craig Hart. It is basicly a Scrabble(tm) like game, single player, played against the clock.
It is a fun game, but in playing it I realized I needed a practice tool to help me learn longer words and to help me get better at anagraming. So I wrote one in JavaScript. It randomly shows seven tiles (from the standard Scrabble letter tiles). You try to find the longest word you can.
You can play it at https://robertjwallace.com///wordgame
Why I hate computers
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])
Another website launched.
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.
New website completed
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.
XHTML table generator
I coded a small web tool for generating xhtml tables. It is a work in progress. It features building a table with user specified number of rows and columns and head and footer areas. Cells can then be edit, adding colspan or rowspans. I’m currently working on an undo and redo feature.
You can play with it at https://robertjwallace.com///tablegen/
Whoops…. You are currently lost
You are lost… we all know that feeling. The best we can do to help you is to take you back to the begining.
go home….