Tag Archives: Programming
Blogs and websites I like to read
I use Google Reader to follow quite a lot of websites, blogs and anything else interesting that squirts out an RSS feed. For the curious, here is a list of my favourites. I’m leaving out the well known things like XKCD, Dilbert, Hack-a-day and so on.
- http://uncertaintimes.tumblr.com/ I have no idea what this is about, but it never fails to display interesting and random images at
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Tagged Art, Hardware, hyperlinks, Photography, Programming, retro, Website, Weird
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Error_success : A new programming blog
If you’re not a techie, please wait for another post from me that isn’t full of nerd 
However… if you’re interested in software development and programming, you could do worse than visit a new blog I’ve just finished setting up. You’ll find it at the handy URL of http://error_success.piku.org.uk. It’s going to be full of techie programming stuff in an attempt to keep me motivated with coding.
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Tagged blog, error_success, Programming, Website
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Processing: Digital harmonics
I’ve been having another play with Processing and a bit of simple maths. Ages ago I came across the works of John Whitney, and this rather hypnotic little Flash application. It always fascinated me how the dots went around their circlular paths and new patterns emerged, and I thought it’d be cool to make my own.
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Tagged emergent behaviour, John Whitney, processing, Programming
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Crystal Reports tamed
Ha! I have just worked out how to use Crystal Reports in my own pieces of software. I can make the reports authenticate against a database and then load a .rpt file and fill it in correctly – all through code, rather than Visual Studio designer properties. And I can use stored procedures with parameters.
I’ll tidy it up, get it straight in my head and then write some waffle on… Continue reading
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Tagged blog365, c#, crystal reports, Programming, visual studio
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Processing Sketches: A new part of my website
Twangy String – 1D rippling water
I use the Processing language to try out little coding ideas, or to have fun making something that looks pretty, or is amusing. After looking around my computers while tidying up I found several worthy of showing off, and have created a page on my… Continue reading