Software Development The Wayback Machine Saved Me Days of Work Over the years I've been helping to maintain an old website written using ASP, not ASP.net, but classic ASP using VB Script. This website has a small online store for a few products and several online courses that they run. We were using a payment processor that allowed redirecting,
Lego Battletech Lego Mosaics I decided to combine two of my obsessions, Battletech and Lego by making some Lego mosaics. Battletech Video Game (144x48 studs)Mechwarrior Video Game (144x96 studs)Crescent Hawks Inception Video Game (144x96 studs)
Angular Upload Image and Convert to Data URL in Angular Uploading an image using an input file component and converting to a data url using Angular and Typescript
Ionic Building an Ionic 5 Wizard Component in Angular Working on a project, I came across the need for a wizard style dialog, so I did the normal thing, doing a search and finding a few options for older versions of Ionic (1 or 2) and otherwise just finding suggestions to use the Slides component. So here's how I
xBox XBox 360 Hacked Account Still Not Resolved After seeing an article on January 6, 2012, about someone else having their account hacked on the Kotaku gaming news site, and having read her account here, and now on http://www.hackedonxbox.com/ I've decided to rewrite my post, including some actual dates to try to make things a
xBox XBox 360 Account Hacked - 10 Weeks Still Not Resolved I know not many people read this blog (I don't post enough) but just have to get this out there, as this is no way to make a happy customer. Approximately 10 weeks ago, I awoke to discover that my XBox 360 account had been used to purchase 3 of
The Switch To SageTV For the past 6 years, I've been using BeyondTV as my dvr/pvr software, recording lots of tv shows. This spring I made the switch to SageTV for a number of reasons: SnapStream has pretty much quit working on the consumer version of BeyondTV, and switched to an enterprise level
New House Incoming I think most of my family is aware that my wife and I are building a new house, but thought that some people might be interested, and not know yet, so here's your notice. :) The new place will be South and a little West of where we are now, but
Mercenary Contract Generator Mercenary Contract Generator (MCG) Update Well, as you can see from the length of time between posts, I've obviously failed on the one resolution. Just after posting my list of resolutions, I put in about 4 or 5 hours work of work on Mercenary Contract Generator (MCG) which got the code into a stable point.
New Year's Resolutions I read somewhere that it is best if you write out any resolutions you may have, as well as post them somewhere where you will see them frequently so that you remember them, as well put them somewhere public so that others will be able to hold you to them
Busy Busy Figure I need to get a post in so that I have at least one for June. :) Work has been busy, as well as summer always seems to have lots going on at home. As for work, we will be moving to a new location by the end of summer
Mercenary Contract Generator Learning is fun I seem to be good at delaying working on Mercenary Contract Generator (MCG) but at least I'm learning new stuff. :) Currently reading up on using Maven, as well as Ant, and continuous integration which all should be useful knowledge for work, as well as getting the MCG project set up
Going to GDC Canada Well, it looks like I am going to Game Developers Conference® Canada. When I first started this job, my boss had asked if I would like to attend GDC sometime, however, it being in San Francisco, I figured it probably wasn't going to happen, as it gets pretty expensive pretty
Mercenary Contract Generator Battletech Mercenary Contract Generator Just wanted to let people know that there is a new version of MCG in the works. Exactly when it will be released, I have no idea, but did want to say I am working on a new one. I recently had to gut what I had written, and start
First Post Well, here's the first post. Not sure I even need a blog, nor what I will post, but what the heck, I'll jump on the band wagon (a few years late) and create one.
