Window Designer – Properties

I know a lot of people are interested in this as I keep getting asked when it’s being released, so I thought I’d give a bit of news about Window Designer.

It’s turning into quite a complex project, more so than I first thought, but saying that, progress is being made, slowly but surely.

The main section I have been working on lately is the Propertes window, trying to almost emulate the one from the Visual Basic IDE. It now mostly works so I have now began coding the backend to it to store the control properties etc.

Thats about it for now, I will try to post again soon with some further updates 🙂

Preview of Properties Window

Coke + Phone = :(

Don’t try spilling Coke over a slide phone like the Nokia N80. I did it the other day and ever since it’s not sliding very well 🙁 Damn coke dried into a sludgy mess inside the sliding mechanism.

Coke + Phone

I’m Alive

Just to let anyone who cares know… I’m not dead, I just haven’t got around to posting on here for aggges.

Haven’t been doing much, just spending all of Christmas down the pub, which was
nice.

New Year was great fun too, fancy dress is always a good laugh.

Prob won’t post again for a while, so bye.

Fixed PC and MPSounds Milestone

Well I have now fixed my PC at last, which is good.  I thought I may have lost all my stuff but I managed to recover it all.

The Messenger Plus! SoundPack DB is nearly at 200 SoundPacks!  It’s taken a while to get there but we’ve reached the milestone at last.  I know not much has been happening on the site lately, but keep an eye on it as there’s going to be a competition happening soon.

Stupid PC

Well I know officially hate my PC.  Im currently using my old 1GHz PC, which I had luckily setup on my KVM switch a few months ago but just hadn’t used, cos my main PC gave me a BSOD yesterday and just won’t boot now.

To make it worse, I can’t find my restore CDs and the Knoppix CD I made is apparently corrupted and the Linux Live CD I had won’t let me create a folder on my NTFS backup disk.

Grrr.  So I dunno what I’m gonna do now, as I may have lost all of the source code for Screenshot Sender, Extra Tools and any other stuff I’d been working on, like some of my websites.

Well never mind, I can’t really be bothered with it for now, I’ll have another go at sorting it tomorrow.

Birthday Boy

The day is here at last, today is my 19th birthday!!  Hooray.  I went to the pub again last night for a few drinks, not doing much today in the day, but I’m going out for a meal tonight and then going to the pub after for a few drinks, so that should be fun.

Can’t think of anything else to say, except Happy Birthday to Me!!

The Morning After

Well I had my party last night, for my 19th birthday.  Had a great night, lots of people, loads of booze and lots of fun.  Was a fair few empty cans and bottles around to tidy up this morning but it was worth it.  Didn’t take too long to tidy up.

I got a few cool presents from my mates, like a pair of PaintBall guns, so we now have a multi-coloured shed.  Got given a couple of cases of cider too so now i should have enough to last me a few days, I’ve got about 50-odd cans left.

I had my interview for the IS Technology Trainee Technician job on friday, that went ok.  The personality profiling thing I had to do was a load of rubbish, but nevermind.  And the test they made me do was a piece of piss, I had to note down five icons from the control panel, remove Acrobat Reader, then reinstall and get the OS version and Service pack from the system applet.  Even someone who doesn’t know hardly anything about computers could have done that test so I don’t really see the point of it, but never mind.

I don’t rekon I’ll get that job, but it doesn’t really matter as where I’m working temporary at the moment and I’ve worked part-time for about the last five years want to offer me a full time job now apparently, so I’m gonna go in somewhen and discuss that with them and decide if I want to go for it or not.

Well that’s about it for now, can’t think of anything else to day and I’ve talked about enough rubbish already.

Getting Closer

Well the job interview is getting closer, only a few days to go now.  I was reading the letter they sent me the other day and i found out i was supposed to phone them to let them know if I was going, so I had to do that a bit quick.

I went out on Friday and Saturday night, that was fun.  Friday was a mates 30th birthday do, where I somehow managed to win a dancing competition, don’t ask me how, I rekon it was a fix.

Saturday I went to a Christmas party.  Yup, a Christmas party in July we’re mad.  I’m glad I went now, was a real good laugh, quite a few  people there and they had a snow machine which was fun.  The walk home which is about a 10 minute trip took us about an hour as we had some hedge jumping competitions and traffic cone wearing on the way, which was nice.

I bought a copy of StarCraft of eBay the other day, I played it years ago but lost the CD and felt like playing it again.  I wonder how long it’ll be till I get bored of it.

I also bought a smoke machine off eBay the other day, that arrived on Saturday.  I tested it and it seems to work fine.  I’ll get to, give it a proper use on Saturday at my party, for my 19th Birthday!  woohoo, I can’t wait, should be a good laugh, all my mates (all two of them j/k), lots of booze and now with added smoke.

Rejection

Well I didn’t get that IT Systems Administrator job, which I was kinda expecting anyway, but t’is a shame as that sounds like it would have been quite a good job.

Nevermind, I’ve still got my interview next friday to look forward to and then my big old annual piss-up, otherwise known as my birthday party.  Woot.

Job Interview Num 2

I still haven’t heard back from that IT Systems Administrator job, I’ll probably hear back this week some time hopefully.

I got a letter yesterday saying I’ve got another interview, this time as a IS Technology Trainee Technician.  I haven’t got a clue what the IS bit stands for but never mind.

I have to have a personality profile, then a test and then the actual interview, so that should be uh fun.

It’s not till the 29th, so I should have heard about the other job by then, which is nice.