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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

Testing, testing...

Blog (the Delphi program) can get to Caffeinated Bliss and publish a blog to it. Took a bit of poking around to get the settings right, but it can be done. This is good. Now I know what settings I'll need to put in Chronicle's Site

Debug

Deleting entries is harder than it looks. Definitely need to have an "Are you sure you want to permanently delete this entry" dialog. I'm nearly ready to do the Alpha release on SourceForge, Chronicle version 0.2. Everything's still bare metal, you can'

Roadmap

Why do they call it a development roadmap, when calling it a feature list would be more accurate? Map sounds more adventurous, you see Terra Incognita and "Here Be Dragons" on maps. Chronicle now has a roadmap, going from version 0.2 (add, update, save and delete entries

Tower of Babel GUI design.

It used to be that you could tell what language a program was written in just by looking at it running. Visual Basic 3.0 and 4.0 were kind of chunky, Borland Delphi had those nasty yes/no buttons where the check mark floated above the button when it

Version 0.2

Chronicle version 0.2 is complete. It can load, save and update entries, and that nasty random flood of exceptions is gone. Amazing what a little re-ordering in the constructor will do for you. The next version's big task is to sort out publishing the blog to

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