The Misadventures of Dan
Peer into the mind of Dan as he tries to build an MP3 Player for his PDA and searches for the next thing in his life be it an electrical engineering job or graduate school.
Friday, January 30, 2004
.:10:22:34 AM:.
Of course the answer could be no...
Wow.... that sucked.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
.:9:48:26 PM:.
There comes a time during anything you do when you consider... is it worth it? Should you cut your losses and return back safe?
Safe is not always the right answer.
.:5:41:50 PM:.
Get ready for a series of blogs as I count down :p
K! The whole namespaces with Xerces and Visual Studio .Net... DONE! For some reason (not enough time to investigate) using the Xerces classes do not work in a 'off-the-shelf' project. You need to use a BLANK project or put your code in the stafx.cpp or some _other_ .cpp file....
DTDs rock! They preformat your data so if your tag isn't quite right, or you have an extra tag whammo it's fixed/gone!
Travelling through a DOM Tree is still difficult... there's so much I need to do!
Meanwhile, I'm coding to Digitally Imported's Euro Dance... I wonder if they'll let me play that during the competition.
Monday, January 26, 2004
.:9:08:03 PM:.
Newsmonster and Firebird = BLAH!!!
I deeply and sincerely apologize for suggesting Newsmonster. Right after I installed the extension on Firebird; Firebird didn't run. It loaded the Java Console and the Firebird window never showed up. I even let it 'load' for over half an hour and still nothing! Newsmonster uses Java (it says this on its webpage) as part of the plugin/extension. I don't have anything against Java except that I feel it's slow. Yes I do work on a P3 500 but so what? Webpages load fine, Flash loads perfect, all my other Firebird extensions run as expected-why should my expectations be any different?
Anguish, Fear surge through,
Why oh why did this happen?
All for your glory.
This is NOT about the previous paragraph.
.:12:49:33 AM:.
See Dan's Feed. Feed Dan Feed.
Thanks to Blogger's switchover to Atom I now have a feed!
What is a feed?
A feed is basically a summary of a webpage. It's sort of like scanning all the headlines of a newspaper article. With webpages you never know when the webpage may change or sometimes only some of the articles/blogs may interest you and you might want to skip the rest. With a feed of a website you can quickly check: a) see if there were any changes b) read the blogs that interest you. Feeds are done in a certain format so that anyone can make a feed for their website and everyone can view it. There are feeds for weather, feeds for blogs, News and even regular websites. With Mozilla you can have a panel that lists all your feeds. I haven't tried any of the plugins for Internet Explorer but I think they work the same.
There are two immediate types of standards when it comes to feeds: RSS and ATOM. They both use this really simple language (similar to HTML) called XML and they both serve the same purpose. RSS was created by Netscape a few years ago and was basically used to hold links and their respective titles (think of a list of links). Atom (created by Blogger) does what RSS does and a bit more. It's designed to hold content (like a short description or excerpt). You may want to try Newsmonster edit:some other program and see how it works :)
