Advogato blog for billlyjoeray

10 Dec 2000

Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:25:12 GMT

I've been sooooo busy working lately (6 days a week) that but I did have some time to put out a new version of Project Diary. In this release I added some real documentation, removed warnings when it was run with Perl 5.6 and fixed a bug where someones diary entry would be displayed twice if they were listed twice on the project page. Direct download is here

I would really love it if someone would give me a little constructive critisism. I can write perl programs but I'm not not at the point of writing them well. So please email me if you have an comments and especially if you actually found it worth using!

Other than that I've done some more reading of The Camel and ordered a copy of The C++ Programming Language. As always I'm doing my best to help where I can with Worldforge.

10 Nov 2000

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:34:04 GMT

I haven't been able to spend much time on the net lately, or get any programming done.

I started working full time on monday for Label Art. I'm a "press assistant" so that pretty much means I'm a gofer for press operators. Its a completely physical job so I have a lot of time to think but not the energy after work to do much else except read email and browse a few web pages. The best thing about this is I'll actually have some money to spend on computer hardware and Christmas presents :)

24 Oct 2000

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 05:35:36 GMT

I was working on a script to grab diary entries from members on the Worldforge project page and I noticed that this program might be useful for other projects! So I quickly added a GPL header to it and now I'm offering it to the advogato community.

You can see a demo of it here and download it here. If you like it send me some feedback. And if you don't like it, well tell me why :)

22 Oct 2000

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 06:19:54 GMT

I really should start double checking stuff before I hit 'submit', my usually handle is billyjoeray and as you can see, I'm signed up on advogato as billyjoeray(three L's). I wonder if there is any way the advogato gods could change it over....

I guess the sign that my life is turning around for the better is that I've been extreemly busy these last few days with computer related things. Rather than normally having nothing to do but sit here and stare at web sites.

First off I just bought my first O'Reilly books, got HTML & XHTML & The Definitive Guide in the mail and just ordered Programming Perl.

The same day, I got a 30GB hard drive (was a late birthday present (my previous drive was 3GB)). After a lot of hasle getting it work in Linux (mostly because of my stupidity), I've got mondo space now plus I was able to give the other hard drive to my father and now he has linux!.

Now that I have all this space I can go back to helping testing some really cool programs (Crystal Space Mojo Nation Worldforge).

*pulls out the old cvs and starts checkin' out

BTW: If anyone has a project that you need someone to do testing drop me a line.

19 Oct 2000

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 01:00:15 GMT

Hi, I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Adam and I'm not a very good programmer, but I do try :)

I've done a bit of beta testing for projects like Crystal Space, Pan, Mojo Nation, Worldforge and some other smaller projects.

Currently I'm spending alot of time working on my web page learning php and also always hacking away at some little perl and python programs I wrote.

I consider myself apprentic level but I'm going to wait for people to notice me and certify me instead of asking people do it (even though I know a few people who would :))

Welp, time to go watch West Wing....