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I've spent the last week coding like a demon. I'm working on pretty much a clone of a current application that i intend to add some extra features too. I started with Lazarus but it was a little limited for my needs. So i moved on to Turbo Delphi which is another freebie although not licensed under the GPL like Lazarus. Turbo Delphi is quite simple to use and learn and in my opinion DelphiPascal is the best way to get into programming. I hope to get few more updates done to the sites over the next couple of days if i can pull myself away from Delphi!
Almost two years i bought a new laptop and it come with Vista pre-installed but after less than an hour i decided to put Gentoo on it instead. It's been running Gentoo up until last week when i put Vista back on. I did this as i was interested in trying the Speech Recognition that is built in, speech recognition on Linux is lacking. The speech recognition worked reasonably well although i only used it for a single day, i've since been working on a new application. Of course the biggest issue with Vista was the UAC dialog popping up every few minutes. Disabling it helps but i now have a big red X in my system tray that complains about UAC every boot. It's also quite resource intensive but disabling a few unnecessary services helps. So far i'm reasonably impressed at least more so than my first experience with it, especially when my laptop only has 512Mb of RAM (an extra 1Gb is on the way). Whilst i miss Gentoo being on the laptop i think i'll keep Vista for the time being, i can dual-boot with Gentoo later. Now i wonder if i should try the x64 version on my gaming machine, decisions decisions...
The major functions of the application i'm working on have been done. I really expected it to be another week or so before i got this far. I'm chuffed that i've managed to get it done it has been a long time since i coded and even longer that i used Delphi or Pascal. And i was never much of a programmer anyways. But so far so good all that needs to be done now is to optimise the code and test, test, test. At this rate i might have it released by xmas!
I've popped up a new article about writing articles at Word King Pro.
I am going to start from scratch on the application i've been working on. Whilst it mostly works at the moment there are a few too many bugs and due to the dodgy way i've written it fixing them only creates more. So starting again and mapping it out properly is the right thing to do.
I am going to start from scratch on the application i've been working on. Whilst it mostly works at the moment there are a few too many bugs and due to the dodgy way i've written it fixing them only creates more. So starting again and mapping it out properly is the right thing to do.
The rewrite is going well a number of bugs from the previous version have been sorted out. It is also a lot faster lookups are almost instant. I've managed to get it to look more professional and less dated as well. If all goes well it should be complete by the end of the year. The application is going to be quite similar to Power Artcile Rewriter.
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