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Skype API and Chat Bots

Friday, January 1, 2010 No Comments

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on a chat-bot that acts much more than a simple echo server. With the plethora of Instant Message clients on the market (Yahoo, AIM, GTalk, Pidgin, Adium, etc.), it was difficult to determine which IM client suited my needs. First, the client needed to be available [...]

The Joys of Processing 1.0 [Beta]

Thursday, April 3, 2008 No Comments

For my University of Iowa Intermedia I class, I have been determining exactly what my final project will be. After attending several lectures, I have decided that my final presentation will have SOMETHING to do with Processing 1.0 [Beta].
For those that don’t know much about programming languages or art, Processing 1.0 is a visual designers [...]

Spring Break and BF2

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1 Comment

It must have been a freak of nature or a massive aligning of the planets that allowed my University of Iowa Spring Break to coincide with my kids school break. But nevertheless, it did happen and my kids and I were allowed a weeks worth of chilling around my parents house for seven days.
As usual, [...]

Java Servlets: Why hast though forsaken me? Part II

Sunday, April 8, 2007 No Comments

Integrating mySQL with Java Servlets is tedious, but at least the GUI is easier to derive. Looks like it works OK, but there are still some java stuff I keep forgetting:

Converting String to an Int -> Integer.parseInt(str); OR new Integer(str).intValue(); OR Integer.valueOf(str).intValue();
String to byte[] -> str.getBytes();
byte[] to String -> str.getBytes();
int to String -> Integer.toStrin(n); [...]

Java Servlets: Why hast though forsaken me?

Sunday, April 8, 2007 No Comments

The current Web Programming project is integrating mySQL with a Java Servlet front-end. This is fine, especially since current Java GUI’s are difficult to create. Doing this through a web page makes MUCH more sense. However, I can’t use cookies to hold some of my session data because my data occasionally contains characters that cookies [...]