Shadow of Power by Steve Martini. Really great book, gonna read more stuff from this author.

The chatwindow GUI hasn’t been fully implemented yet, I’ll put up a mockup that was done for me showing what I eventually want it to look like a bit later.

As usual, feedback is appreciated.

On a side note, I’m well into my exam period, wish me luck

Bug reports, feedback and/or constructive criticism welcome (via email preferred).

I had been thinking, before Uni started again, about how it would be a good idea for me to write my own apps for Android, after all, the apps could be written in Java which was something I knew. The app I had in mind was an IRC client for the phone. (Yes, I am an IRC addict :/).

So, sitting in the Uni computer room, I decided I would make an IRC app for Android as a final year project.

I got started straight away, the SDK and the Android system was completely new to me, I’d never even bothered to look up anything about it. The initial weeks were very tough, I didn’t understand anything and was confused as hell even after reading the docs.

But now, I’m making good progress The app is coming along nicely; the toughest part is creating a parser, which is taking longer then expected. But my GUI and main interaction screen seem to working pretty well so far. I had to make a few design changes though, the idea to use tabs for channels just didn’t work out, mainly before working with dynamic content and tabs was cumbersome.

Anyway, I managed to work around that problem and load of others, so wish me luck to making a usable app \o/

P.S, leave a comment telling me what type of things you would expect to find in an IRC app for a phone…..

• Got a car
• Got 2 external HDs
• Got a PDA
• Got my own VPS
• Learnt PHP
• Wrote a PHP blogging engine, and scrapped it to do a rewrite, which I still haven’t started >.<
• Got another laptop
• Watched Smallville Seasons 1-7 and now following Season 8
• Watched 1 ep of Psych and loved it. Now watched Season 1, watching Season 2 and following Season 3

Heh.

Prolly more things to add, but can’t think of ‘em now.

I’m now in my final year of Uni and my final year project is making an IRC client app for Android, written in Java. Should be interesting…

So far the GUI is almost done (*thanks the person who dreamt up using XML for constructing GUIs*), and the text parser is making good progress. \o/ Now a matter of working out how to add the text to the main window and separating channels with tabs. Wish me luck

First, a few days ago, I’m driving along minding my own business, I come to a tight road, and some muppet in the opposite direction decides to floor it, hits my wing mirror, knocking it into my car and cracking the wing mirror glass (thankfully nothing happened to the plastic thing keeping the glass in place or the car door!)
I stopped immediately but by the time I turned around, he was long gone. I just hope his car was damaged as well. It’s no biggie though, the glass works fine, and a replacement is pretty cheap.

Today morning, I was out for a meal quite, far away, around 12am, parked my car in a side road. Have my meal, come out (around 1am) and find the back small window smashed, rear window rolled down and someone has had a proper go at finding something worth taking. Luckily, I left nothing too important in there so nothing was missing and double locking the doors mean you can’t open it without the key.
Called the police, who decided there was no point coming around since they hadn’t left any blood or anything at the scene. Got home, stuck a bin bag over the broken window and went to bed, but didn’t get much sleep. Woke up at 8am, called insurance, who sent someone over around 10:30am and replaced the window (in 10 mins!). Course, it cost me a bit, had to pay the £50 excess (booooo).
Got a call back from the cops who were interested in knowing if there was any chance the would-be-thief left prints behind. Chances are he probably did, the cops seemed happy with that and said they’d send someone around to check for prints (yay ). Hope the thief gets owned.

This morning, while getting the car ready for the repair man, I notice the rubber thing at the bottom of the car is half off Wasn’t much I could do expect stick it back the best I could, prolly needs to be taken to a garage and let them do it properly.

Sigh, never had this much trouble with my car before. No one’s ever touched my car, I remember leaving my window open for 3 days by mistake (!) and nothing was touched. Despite the occasional problems around here, this area seems pretty safe.

Oh yeah, I need another job lol, might as well earn some dosh while I have free time.

Anyhow, after some googling, I found KeygenMusic.net, where they have a MASSIVE collection of those tunes. I downloaded all their files, after going through about half of them, I found some tunes that I thought were the best out of the ones I heard, and I thought I’d share The files (in xm format) can be played in VLC or XMPlay. I converted them all to mp3, but 101MB is too large for me upload on my shit connection

You can find the uploaded rar (1.01MB) here. Enjoy!