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Periodic Table

Online JavaScript Periodic Table application Available for Chome and Safari

Sex to Sexty

My father's Sex to Sexty magazine covers.

Spanish Verbs

A Spanish Verb conjugation program written with Enyo 2.0

SpriteBuilder!

I have gotten a chance to look at the new SpriteBuilder alpha version and I must say, I am quite impressed. I can’t tell you how long I have been waiting for a tool like this.

One of the latest features that they have added is the ability to include sound to the timeline.  Included with this is a audio display of the waveform along the timeline.  This has proven extremely valuable in timing the animations with the audio.

I’m anxiously awaiting the final release, and I’m certain to become a huge fan of the product.  You can check it out at www.SpriteBuilder.com

SpriteBuilder Hammer

Sheldon’s Voice Actress

I’m very pleased to announce that I have found a really great voice actress on Fiverr and she’s just delivered on the gig tonight.

Her name is Anni, and she is reading the part of Sheldon.   I was perplexed on whether or not to make Sheldon a boy or a girl since it was a cute little bird, but I think Anni came through with a perfect animated voice for him.   If you need a terrific female voice actress, check out Kiriwar on Fiverr.

Validation for Sabine Free State!

After a lot of analysis over the boundaries between the Spanish region of Texas and the Orleans Territory, I have finally found someone who agrees with my map.

http://www.thecajuns.com/1805map.html

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Parish,_Louisiana

Boundary disputes followed the purchase. The United States claimed the Sabine River as the border and Spain claimed a line farther east in Louisiana along Arroyo Hondo, a tributary of the Red River. The Neutral Ground Treaty was affected in 1806, declaring the area “Sabine Free State,” a demilitarized zone, which became the neutral strip for outlaws, desperadoes, criminals and filibusters. The strip extended, roughly, from Sabine River east to the Calcasieu River, Bayous Kisatchie and Don Manuel, Lac Terre Noir and the Arroyo Hondo. Both nations claimed ownership but neither exercised control. English speaking settlers from the older eastern states began moving into the section during the westward expansion years before the boundary was established. They settled on Spanish grants known as Rio Hondo claims. One of the earliest settlers was Thomas Arthur, who filed a claim for 640 acres (2.6 km2) on Negreet Creek.

http://www.knowla.org/entry/754/&view=summary&ref=region&refID=3

Sabine Free State

 

Override WPF app startup

I wanted my app to have a login window as well as a main window.  Default WPF implementation closes the app whenever the main window is closed, which prevented me from closing the window during a logoff/logon procedure.

I found the ‘Startup’ attribute and overrode it to provide the functionality I was looking for.

<Application x:Class="DSI.MobileClient.WPF.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             Startup="Application_Startup">
    <Application.Resources>

    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

And in app.xaml.cs:

        void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e) {

            Current.ShutdownMode = ShutdownMode.OnExplicitShutdown;

            do {
                if (!Login())
                    break;

                MainWindow window = new MainWindow();

                if (window.ShowDialog() == false)
                    break;

            } while (true);

            Shutdown();
        }

Spanish Verb Conjugation app finished!

I finally got around to converting my Spanish Verb Conjugation app (available on the iPad) into Enyo 2!

Enyo 2 has certainly come a long way since I last saw it, and there were plenty of obstacles to converting it.  It took me a full week to get back up to speed with JavaScript again.  There are a few more optimizations to make for the cell phone compatibility (smaller font, drag area), but it should be fully functional now.

http://www.zombieswithcoffee.com/SpanishVerbs/index.html