Month: July 2006

  • Sigh — another stupid software patent

    I see on Slashdot that Friendster (never heard of them) recently was granted a patent covering online social networks.  Sound broad — it is.  The actual patent itself reads: “system, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks.”  Well, that covers quite a bit.  Anyway,…

  • A hole in my ceiling

    Ah, one of the many joys of home ownership.  I was going up the stairs on Tuesday and on my way up, noticed a small wet spot on the carpet.  Of course, my first thought was where is the dog and Nathan.  The both are in the drooly stages of life (of which, hopefully Nathan…

  • Using RegEx in C#

    Something I found out today that I thought interesting.  Within MarcEdit, I have one regular expression which looks for entities and converts them to their byte equivalents (i.e., &#1B;).  Since this regular expression has the potential to be called a number of times, I decided to make use of the RegEx compile option.  In the…

  • MarcEdit Script maker PERL template (for those wanting to take a look)

    So, the new Script maker uses templates — which is making my life much easier in terms of implementating the script maker because the lion share of the code isn’t in the compiled libraries.  It also what is making implementing new scripting languages possible.  This is because MarcEdit’s script maker actually writes a script in…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 — quick update

    In updating the script maker — I forgot to update the COM component that it links to.  Important stuff to have.  I’ve reposted the project as of 10:15 am Pacific Standard Time.  As usual, download from: http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/software/development/MarcEdit50_Setup.exe –tr

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    New updates to the MarcEdit 5.0 program.  The updates are as follows: Script Wizard:  The script wizard is back in MarcEdit.  Currently the script wizard only produces VBscripts (i.e., has the same functionality as the 4.6 version) — but the internal framework is such that new script language should be easy to add.  I’ll be…

  • Shuttle Discovery Takes flight

    Shuttle launch days are exciting days around our house.  I love watching the shuttle launch.   And my boys love it as well.  At this point, there are 2 minutes till the shuttle launch and I find it very appropriate that we should be sending the shuttle back into space on the 4th.  I know that…

  • Musings on the 4th

    I’ve got to preface this by saying I try not to post political musings here — but I’ll make an exception today given that our nation was founded on political musings and would do well to have more of it.  I have to admit, I love the 4th of July more now that I’ve had…

  • MarcEdit Quick update

    Just a quick update.  I’m in the process of wrapping up the Script Maker.  It will look about the same but with a number of new options in the works.  First, the script maker will be able to produce new script languages.  Previously, the script maker only generated vbscripts.  Well, this version will create vbscript,…

  • Nathan’s first real fireworks

    The City of Independence, Oregon does the 4th of July well.  They actually host two large fireworks shows that are some of the best I’ve seen put on by a city smaller than 250,000 — which is saying something since Independence is a town of 7,500.  Anyway, tonight, they had the city appreciation day fireworks.…