The Championships, Wimbledon 2004 + Delta Goodrem

I have written a bit about our trip to Wimbledon and an encounter with Delta Goodrem over on Mark & Sarah in the UK.

New Photo Gallery Implementation

I have finally had the time and inspiration to dump my 2 year old perl scripts that were running my photo gallery and install and configure the free/open source Gallery software.

I intially tried out this program about 8 or 9 months ago however I found it quite cumbersome to use, and the windows java based client was pretty un-user-friendly. Something that I didn't notice, that was pointed out to me today by Tolli, is that you can install a registry patch that allows you to publish your photo's directly into gallery directly from your local machines file system using the Microsoft Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard. Using this feature of Windows XP updating your photo gallery is a matter of going to the folder that you want to publish as a photo gallery, enter the publishing wizard, follow a few steps that include selecting that you want to publish to Gallery and voila, done.

So, you can now visit the new and improved photo gallery. I still have not migrated over all the old photo galleries, and have not yet migrated over any of the photo descriptions or commentary, but I will get them done soon. Also note that I have published the photo's from our New York City visit. Note that you can also comment on the photo's so if you have something to say about a particular photo please punch it in.

mReader Breathes!

After laying dormant since August 23rd last year [mReader 1.01], I have finally got around to decompiling the mReader from binary form and have thrown it all into the Eclipse 3.0 IDE. Wow, was I blown away by the new version of Eclipse. What a great IDE. I have been using the version 2.xx incarnation at work to do Java work and while great, the new Eye-candy in the version 3.0 incarnation is truly fantastic.

Now, back on topic. For those who don't know, I lost the mReader souce in a Windows incident about 3-4 months ago. I used Jode (Thanks, Rich Fuller for pointing me to it) to decompile the mReader binaries, and it has done a servicable job. After about 10 minutes of playing around Eclipse is finally happy with the java source. I have had to chop out some bits that didnt decompile properly, and will have to re-implement them in the next few days. Jode also pulled some very interesting little things out of its decompiler hat, for example:

public void ImportOPML() {

   object = object_1_;

   break;

}

public void Add(RssItem newItem) {

      object = object_0_;

      break;

}

public progressCanvas(Display display) {

   this.display = display;

   screen = screen;

   if (!this.isDoubleBuffered())

      offscreen = Image.createImage(this.getWidth(), this.getHeight());

}

So where to from here? I am going to clean up the code, replace the chunks that didn't decompile correctly and put it all up in a sourceforge project. I have had a lot of requests for the source over the last few months and I may aswell give something back.

Ill keep you posted.