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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Reasons why

Why am I keeping this blog? I know a couple of people who are reading it (Iceland and UK show up in the web stats, so does Germany, though I'm fairly sure I don't know anyone there.) It's probably half development journal for Chronicle,

Tunnel at the end of the light

Finally finished doing the GUI for the site config window. It's huge, five tabs all full of stuff. And none of it does anything, just sits there and looks pretty.

Piles of code

GridBagLayout takes an awful lot of code to do. I think I've got the hang of it, but I have a 15kb file that doesn't even do anything yet. The main Chronicle.java file is only 23kb. Once this dialog is hooked up and working, I&

Discoveries

Today is a special day. The second day of the second month of the second year, 02/02/02. One good thing about having cable TV is the Discovery Channel. "There's always more to discover" is their slogan. And they're right. Just think, I

Circle Line flashbacks

It would be really nice if a Chronicle macro could insert HTML tags, especially paragraph, bold, italic, image and link tags. Those are all the ones I'd use regularly. Definitely the image tag, because a chap called Steve MacLaughlin made this blogsticker, which I love. I remember walking

Down to work

Organisation. That's what I need. My organiser needs updating. Too many things to do and not enough day to fit them all in. Did two things long overdue today, including a brief resurrection of the old Gateway P133 machine. Bought in 1995 or 1996, the original OS was

Chocolate, Cola, and Copyleft

According to "The World of Caffeine" (Weinberg and Bealer) Spain was the first European country to drink chocolate, nuns in Mexican cloisters were the first Europeans to make hard chocolate, probably learning it from the locals. Until the French Revolution, chocolate drinks were seen as a convenient way

Moving Day

Completed the move to the new site. Now I have to down the old site, or at least reduce it to a few pages with a redirect URL. Rather a sad occasion, I have been with Freedom to Surf a long time. According to my stats, the site had been

PHP

We completely changed the code last night. Now I need another database, with four interlinked tables. Paul said JDBC is good for me. Like spinach. The hardest part will be coding a decent GUI. My other project is getting my own website up at Caffeinated Bliss. I need a PHP

Dialoging

I never thought designing an options dialog could be this complex. Which things go together? Which things are related to what aspect of the system? How do you use a GridBagLayout anyway? It's high time I learnt GridBag. It is the most flexible layout manager in Java, with

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