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This is the end of rescued posts for 2004. Sorry! If you’re looking for anything posted here between September 2004 and January 2005, email me, and I’ll try to help you. I’ve got the cached versions from Yahoo search.

The lettuce harvest is on! Lots more of it is comming…oh boy. That means less time infront of the computer programming. You decide if that’s good or not :P.

Anyway, I started development on my Inventory software last night. I called it QuickI (Quick-Inventory). That’s pronounced Quick-eye, or Quick-ee. Tell me which you like better. Anyway, I’m using SQLite and Delphi 6 Personal. Seems to be comming along nicely.

As I said before, hopefully I’ll be on the new webserver by this weekend. I hope so anyway, because my current hosting expires on August18^th. That’s next Wednesday. So, if you see any downtime, that’s whats going on.

[This post used to be much longer, but Windows crashed and I had to write it all over :(]

Pleease, don’t mod me -1 Troll. Anyway, this my first post from Windows XP. Why am I running XP, eh? Well, I’m developing an inventory system for Wild Garden Seed in Delphi. Unfortionatly, Lazarus isn’t mature enough yet, so I’m stuck doing it in Delphi. Not that Delphi is bad at all…it’s a nice language.

For the POS/Inventory system, I’ll be using SQLite for my embedded database. This program will also generate labels for mailing, labels for the seed packets, etc. The system will be well suited for handeling seed (meaning that it will be able to handle different volumes of one item, e.g, Ounce, Half-Pound, Pound, etc). It’s gonna be GPL’d of course, so watch this blog for a link to the source code. Also, if any of you are interested in helping, feel free to post a comment. Be sure to fill out your email address so I can get ahold of you. Don’t worry, it won’t be published on the site.

On a different note … Hopefully tomorrow this slew of websites will be on our new hosting with D4Hosting. Chris, the owner seems very nice and willing to accomidate people with special hosting needs. Host with D4Hosting, and tell ‘em that Taj sent ‘ya. Like I said, I’ve got a reputation around there!

See you tomorrow!

I don’t have great news, sorry. For some reason gcc is not compiling the qtgtk.h header file when thrown in the mix with GEdit, but works fine when just compiled with itsself. (It compiles fine…segfaults when run, but that’s different). I’m not sure what the problem is. GEdit won’t compile with g++, so that’s not an option. I guess I’ll figure it out sometime. Any ideas, anybody?

Well, I’m off the the second lettuce seed harvest!

That’s what I’m working on. It’s a little weird, but seems to be working so far! It’s a shared library (or static too, I suspose, if you wanted) that has functions like ShowOpenDialog, ShowSaveDialog, and MessageBox. These functions are wrappers around KDE classes. When a C app (Read: Gnome/GTK+) capps one of these functions, a KDE dialog answers. It’s like a compliment to the QtGtk library.
The QtGtk library works great for entering the Qt event loop, constructing a KApplication, keeping the lines of communication open, etc…but the actual implementation of the dialogs is a bit tricky with QtGtk because you’re compiling a C app with a C++ compiler. Using g++ when you’re susposed to be using gcc can/will cause your compiler to puke. For example, when I was trying to make GEdit use KDE dialogs, I ran into a wall because g++ wouldn’t compile the (valid) C code.
Hopefully this will fix that problem, as the actual code is already in a shared library, and doesn’t need to be compiled. I did get a test program compiled with gcc to work!

It’s a bit tricky because I don’t know any C (or C++), but I’m getting the hang of it. I’ll let you know what I get!

Septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion… It depends where you live!
Septillion, in the US is a 10²⁴, but in the UK it’s 10⁴². However, Septillion comes from F < L, septem, which means 7. -illion comes from F < OF milion (million).

Go figure.

Wikipedia has the scoop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septillion#The_.22standard_dictionary_numbers.22

Crazy.

[Nice title, eh?]

I got home from Fiddle Camp yesterday, then headed off to the Willamette Vally Fiddle Contest. My division was as full as it was at the state contest…I didn’t make the cut at 5. Anyway, I wore this shirt to the fiddle contest, and actually found a few people who knew what Linux was! Way cool!

The Fiddle Camp was a real blast. I learned a whole bunch of new songs, learned about chords, improv, and other cool stuff. Susposedly there’s gonna be pictures here: http://www.peripheralarbor.com/BooherCamp, but it’s just a 404 error right now. In the mean time, here are some pictures that were captured on our camera:

Our Band–The Hailstones. I’m the one on the far right.
My Class (Class 5)
Class 5	Class 6	Everybody

I’m off to the Booher Music Camp in Sisters, OR! It’s a whole week of fiddle classes, which is gonna be really fun!

On the way home on Saturday, we’re going to swing by the Willamette Vally Fiddle contest.

See you next Sunday!