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Gaiaware -- The Beginning

2011-07-18T13:40:00.000-07:00

Let me first start this post by saying I am a developer. I develop using C# and Visual Studio. Nearly all of my time as a developer has been spent working on desktop applications, only a very small percentage of my time has been spent creating websites and web applications. For a while I've been looking to start getting more into website and web application creation. As I stated before I have spent most of my programming career developing desktop applications, I am a C# developer, I know how to connect to databases, utilize webservices write algorithms, etc in that context. I'm ok with basic HTML, but I am not an expert in javascript nor I am an expert in CSS. Becoming well versed in javascript and CSS isn't a particularly difficult process, but it can be quite a time consuming one especially if your time is limited by deadlines, or just life in general. I believe I have found what I need to make the leap into professional and attractive website development, Gaiaware. I'll be keeping a record as I begin to explore using this framework.

Open Source Answer to WPF / Silverlight

2009-04-27T15:01:00.000-07:00

Does the open source community have in the works a technology that is independent from the M$ IP contaminated projects such as Mono and Moonlight? Is there a top to botton wholly open source technology that the open source community can leverage that gives the same type of graphical power, or at least the potential power that is currently weilded by technologies such as Adobe Flash, M$ WPF / Silverlight? I hope to find out soon....

Obama Mutex

2008-11-05T12:53:00.000-08:00

A little something for the Obama supporting programmers out there

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using Hope;

using Change;

using ProgUtils.ErrorLog;

namespace PresidentialElection

{

static class Program

{

///

/// The main entry point for the application.

///

[STAThread]

static void Main()

{

try

{

bool ObamaElected;

System.Threading.Mutex Obama;

Obama = new System.Threading.Mutex(true, "ObamaAsPresident", out ObamaElected);

if (!ObamaElected)

{

MessageBox.Show("Obama has already been elected, you can elect him again in 4 years.");

return;

}

Application.Run(new Form1());

GC.KeepAlive(Obama);

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Log.WriteToLog(ex);

}

City Organization: Los Angeles vs. San Diego

2008-11-03T09:57:00.000-08:00

I recently had a short conversation with a friend about the layout and organization of the city of San Diego compared to the layout of Los Angeles. My friend is of the opinion that San Diego is better organized than Los Angeles and expressed his view, part of a broader obsession that one reason Los Angeles is not layed out as well as San Diego is due to massive immigration, a reference to illegal Mexican immigration which is the broader obsession of this friend of mine. Unlike the humor of Seth MacFarlane post that has not yet gone anywhere, I will begin to put up posts on this topic as I research the issue and of Los Angeles' and San Diego's city planning and how immigration to both cities may have affected it. I will still probably be putting a few unrelated posts on this blog while working on the City Organization Series so if you do a search please look for the tags "City Organization", "LA vs San Diego"

(My Friend if he reads this should know I am playfully jabbing at him in this post, as I enjoy taunting and generally provoking his acerbic wit into making an appearance in the comments section)

"Funnest"

2008-10-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

"Funnest" is not a word, and I will never accept it as such. I have similar feelings about "funner".

Moon Colonization Blog

2008-10-20T17:01:00.000-07:00

I have started a blog where everything that I know and believe pertains to lunar colonization ideas will be located:

http://newakihabara.blogspot.com/

The Humor of Seth MacFarlane

2008-10-20T08:58:00.000-07:00

The next few postings in this blog are going to pertain to the humor used in the works of Seth MacFarlane using his most prominent works Family Guy and American Dad, as case studies. The merits of the humor in each show will be assessed.

Lunar Flag Concept

2008-10-15T11:05:00.000-07:00

Lunar Flag Concept

I'm at work right now so I will just descibe what exactly the very crude illustration above is. The illustration is of the basic concept for my vision of a Lunar flag for a hypothetical future lunar principality or nation of some kind. The flag depicts the Sun, and the Earth, Moon system and a person standing on the Moon reaching out to an image of the "Hubble Universe" that I stole from google. The illustration was made in Visio (which should give you an idea of how limited my artistic talents are). If anyone reading this has the graphical design know-how to make a less crude version of this flag please contact me as I'd be quite interested in any services you could provide.

The Initial Blog Post

2008-09-25T21:46:00.000-07:00

Well, this is my initial forray into blogging. I hope to cover a wide variety of topics that will be useful to me and to those who read it. My presence on this particular blog host is meant to be temporary until I get a handle on posting regularly in a meaningful, well thought out and informative manner. It is my hope that blogging on a regular basis will provide me with a way to organize my thoughts and archive knowledge I have collected and integrate it better into my memory and consciousness