Well, it’s just a simple plain blog, so I think I’ll upgrade it to the latest version of wordpress. I’ve been wanting to see the new wordpress in action anyway. It might break some things though, so I’ll have to see what happens. I kind of don’t care anymore anyway. My blogs suck, and I’m pretty sure nobody REAL actually reads them.
So if it breaks…I’ll just say goodbye to a blog and start something new. Here goes..
I had an idea just now. I saw the problem when I saw a coder complaining in IRC about new programmers who make a cms blog and don’t include a time-date stamp.
The problem: New developers don’t always have the whole picture for their web app’s features.
The solution: A central repository of feature and idea characteristics.
Imagine a web database full of web app features that are used in many web sites. You look up blog for example, and find the Time-date stamp characteristic, the permalink characteristic, the categories and comments characteristics.
Having a member driven cross-referencing content system would enable this to be a valuable resource to new developers.
Well, I haven’t been researching much in the way of this program’s features. I have however, been tinkering with some other AutoHotKey hotness. Lol. I kind of think I should give up on this idea since it would be too difficult to achieve all of it’s most useful goals, and for this: Axem – AutoHotKey Scripts Manager and others like it..
There are other scripts that are coming together that do a lot of the main functionality of the GreaseGeek/Better Windows idea, but without the single AHK instance feature. That dreaded feature seems unattainable after as much research as I’ve done so far. At least without a lot more work than I am willing to contribute at this time. Plus even if it gets done, it may cause other side-effects.
I’ll probably see what other people in the LH coder’s group have to say, and see if anyone wants to take it over.
Well, in these maddening times we live in, we all have something to gripe about. I think I’m not the only one who shares in the feelings described in the title of this post. I have to say, that times were really pretty decent this summer, all the way up until about 2 weeks ago. I don’t have a clue what’s going on now.
I mean, geeze, for once i finally had a niche… work that paid me $50/hour for my technical services, and could finally get a fair amount of hours during the week. Then BAM! Hit like a ton of bricks, it dwindled down to only a couple of lonely hours a week if that. I was making plans to get Dell certified in every certification there is. Making plans to start training other techs. This has got to be a shift to something much better….. because if it’s not, then I think I’m gonna be upset that all my efforts are not getting me anywhere.
Do we all need to band together in order to make it? Do we need each other? Could it be, that without being around one another, our dreams have no real chance? That our lives aren’t enriched or our skills and senses sharpened? Maybe that’s just an illusion and grasping for some kind of solution that isn’t there, or perhaps that’s just it. Maybe the answer is this thing that we practically loathe because we like our privacy, and live on competition breathing through our lungs, and get irritated with others that we get familiar with.
I don’t know how I could have made it these last months during the past year or so without my family. I very much have felt frustrated and hurt and angry with all of them over the course of it all, but if I had abandoned them to escape to my own devices, I would probably be much much worse for it. They’ve grown sharper and more tolerable, and I’ve also grown sharper by their input and care. I’m sure we’re all better now that this has happened.
Maybe what this shows us, is that adversity is a necessary ingredient to character development, but not only enhances our own character, but those who bring the adversity as well. I suppose we could be reflecting back a bit of adversity to them when they bring it, so there they have some for themselves.
It’s often we find that by our own observation, they (people) are not and cannot be growing in any way but for the negative and worse. Take heart; first the thorny prickles grow…. then the rose bud!
I spent some time last week looking at some alternative execution methods for the scriptlets. Yesterday in particular, I looked at separate processes and also execution as DLL functions. Yes, DLL functions. I saw that running dll’s accomplishes a lot of what I’m after for the scriptlets to be run in the greasegeek/better windows app, but in it’s own process or thread. The trouble is, how practical is it? I’m still looking.
In my tests, I could not simply compile a script and then start it by doing a DlllCall to the exe’s “Main” function or any explicit function for that matter. I also could not just rename it to a .dll file and get anything to happen that way. There are other ways of getting things to run with the DllCall method, which is why I’ll still be investigating it. I’ll have to look at the AHK forums and see if anybody has been able to get AHK compiled exe’s to run from that command. The method supports running EXE’s so in theory it should be a clear possibility to run an AHK that’s compiled.
Another thing I looked into was multiple threads for the scriptlets. The problem with that is that AHK is not multi-threaded in the traditional sense. It simply pauses separate threads to run parts of another for the moment that it needs to run, then resumes the other that it was currently processing. In short, it runs only one thread at a time, and will put as many as there are aside from one that gets processed now, on hold indefinitely until that thread is done with what it’s doing.
As you can see, turning on and off the separate threads of each scriptlet is not in the least ideal, and I would say completely unacceptable for most scripts. This is why I’ve looked at ways of running each scriptlet in it’s own process (via either by autohotkey.exe, or by a DllCall, or otherwise). This is my main focus at the moment, but perhaps I should just go ahead and settle for the AutoHotKey.exe approach for now and worry about getting it more ideal later.
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