If anything, this post will serve as a reminder to myself next time I check up on Tumblr. Lately I feel that I have been spending too little time in Photoshop and too much time moving files around and writing code. Design is a huge part of the overall project, and I need to take more time to think layout, IA, and usability through; not to mention iterating more both on paper and the screen.
This is painfully awesome.
Since I have yet to find a better “all-around” code editor for Vista, I’ve been using Dreamweaver until I can get my hands on Coda (and a Mac, for that matter). What annoyed me was that there is no built-in dark theme. Fortunately, this guy had more patience than me and whipped one out.
I’ve been struck with quite a lack of interesting material to post to the ‘tubes lately. With the launch of the Pre, new iPhones and Macbooks and whatnot, you’d think I have some opinions to form.
Not really. I’ve been somewhat hard at work on getting the next version of TwitStamp out the doors, finding a job, and fulfilling personal obligations. You know, all that normal stuff that everyone does.
I’ve also been in full brainstorming mode in hopes of coming up with The Next Big Thing. Oh, and I finally got around to releasing The Site after a year and a half of “in progress”.
Last but not least, I got my hands on a new Nikon D5000 and am trying to aquire the excellent budget prime 35mm f/1.8G lens which is currently backordered everywhere. I’m still playing around with the kit lens and getting a feel for how it works for a variety of shots. Re-activated Flickr, and as always, most of my designs are on deviantArt for perusing.
Fun Fact: Trying to boot a WinXP Pro SP3 disc with the primary hard drive being a FAT32-formatted Win98 SE installation caused the installer to BSOD from a mass storage device failure.
Over the last evening and this morning, I’ve spent about 8 hours trying to link libcurl into my C++ app. I finally have the dependencies met, (note to self: non-ssl libcurl.a, libwinmm.a, libwldap32.a, libz.a, and libws2_32.a which must be linked last) and now the cURL library is missing two functions somewhere. Ugh!
formdata.c - undefined reference to ‘basename’
timeval.c - undefined reference to ‘gettimeofday’
Not to mention Dev-C++ and my licensed copy of Borland C++ BuilderX won’t run under Vista, and Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express just sucks. I’m stuck with Code::Blocks, which doesn’t expose its libraries and built-in header files anywhere. That may be the root of the problem. I’m going to try and compile under WinXP with Dev-C++ and see if it works.
