Archive for June, 2009

Posted on Travel

Dear Diary, we are friends.

Guys I am so full of three emotions right now. But enough of that. Here is an unrelated post. It also contains no useful, technical, or interesting information.

May 18, 2008 —

I don’t remember much of the flight. There are some vague memories of cloud fields pale and blue, and then I was getting off the plane. It was 8 am and both the people I’d met so far had been friendly and even helpful. Probably because it was so early. You know how people love mornings.

I explored Hobart. Everything was closed and there was no one to bee seen. I thought this strange. Where was everyone?

And there in the distance I saw a gathering; a mass of people so dense and deep I found myself backing cautiously away.

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It was 8:32 am and I’d decided that Hobart was a pretty sweet city. But will it still be sweet when its presumed occupants magically appear?

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I smoked my head coming out of the internet room. It was a doorway meant for midgets.

 

Posted on Programming

Bradicon 1 is no more

Bradicon 2 is officially live as of 12:09 am on June 24, 2009. And all it took was a quick edit to httpd.conf. I created a single icon to ensure it still worked. I am sometimes paranoid like that.

As for advertising, I’ve only ever used Adsense. I don’t know how other systems compare. Which is the reason I signed up for Project Wonderful, and am now testing one of their ads on Bradicon. We’ll see how it does when pitted against its Adsense cousins, and decide if it’s worth keeping. Hopefully it is!

Unless there’s a plan to achieve something, I don’t really feel you can call it a goal. So I can’t say averaging $1 a day using advertisements is a goal, but it’s something I’m interested in accomplishing with minimal development if at all possible. I doubt it is, but that would at least pay for hosting which would be sweet.

Sometimes people e-mail me about bradicon. By sometimes I mean maybe three or even four times in the couple of years it has existed. And even though a large number of icons are converted, it is nice to learn that an actual real life person has not only found it useful but also sacrificed the time necessary to write an e-mail letting me know. So here’s an official thanks to those people! Also, hopefully they won’t hate the new design.

 

Posted on Programming

An image splits; time lacks distinctinction

A man named Shaun E. Kiernan asks if I know of any programs purposed toward splitting PNG files. Barring image editors, I do not.

Saying no to people is not something I do well. I offer to make him one. Development time should be brief.

I do so. It is so.

I rebel against the common over-use of text fields. I do not worry about certain conditions. If an image cannot be evenly divided, it will try for pixel fractions. This is an obvious mistake, but the fault is theirs.

I implement tarring, for increased ease-of-use. I commandeer and massage code from Bradicon. It is done in under an hour.

He laments its interface, though it seems functional. He claims it suits his need.

I spend some more time on the user interface. This is as far as I see it going.

It is a program that splits an image, and split images is what it does.

 

Posted on Programming

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Over the last few days I’ve been rewriting bradicon’s front end, and just generally doing bradicon-based stuff I should’ve done long ago.

Bradicon2 features a newer version of SWFUpload, which should fix a number of issues with the previous version’s advanced interface.

I’ve combined the advanced and simple interfaces, and really just subtly changed a few things – not at all based on usage information. HTML describes the simple interface which javascript hides in favour of the advanced interface. Which might work better for anyone who keeps javascript disabled. People always worry about these things but, seriously, who doesn’t have javascript enabled?
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