I'm Back

After a long needed holiday that went for 20 days i am finally back home to where I belong.

Well it must be kind of obvious that i did not reach my goal.
I will discuss this in another post after i have a brief look at my previous post so i know what went wrong and right.

I would love to hear from everyone and hear what they got for Christmas and what they got up to over the holidays (for those of you that were lucky enough to get one).

Keeping in Contact

Over the weekend i went to a party and stayed up all night.
While there my friend offered to sell me this gadget of his which plugs into your router giving wi-fi access for your DS.

I said yes and am gonna get it off him tomorrow.
I am doing this so while on camp during the holidays i can go on the net and keep in touch with you guys.
To do this as well i need to buy or download a browser onto my DS.

I also saw some stuff on coding for the DS I'm gonna have a look into this.

Where have all the Desktop programmers gone?

I'm still looking for a community to join.
The problem isn't because there are a lack of coding communities on the web (Seriously every 5th stumble i come across is a community of php/mysql coders), it's that their aren't enough for desktop programmers.

Some do have little sections on there sites for desktop programmers to get together but generally you never get a reply or ya get one from a person that codes in another language.
It almost makes me want to learn PHP (oh no don't go there jordan then you will have to start all over again).

Well that was my out burst for the week, if you have a view on the subject just leave a comment.

Making the world a colorful place

I was getting board of just displaying white text so i decided to learn a bit about adding colors to programs.

I found a small basic tutorial on the web and had a play around then made a small program that just displays some simple text in COLOR!!!
If you wish to download it you just need to click here.

Now when ever i do a program i will try and put into color and make the world a less boring place.
Also i would like to thank XPD259 who has brought the first top site and you can find his blog here.

are you in MY topsites?

I've seen it around and even submitted a link on one of them.
It's the new craze "ScratchBack" that is still in beta version which allows people to buy a link back to their site.

I know it may not seem like a new idea but it's the idea put into a simple to use format.
Fascinated by it, i have decided to try it out.
As you can see it's on the right hand side with all the other links but will know doubt be the first thing a reader sees.
Because i will only use the money for the growth of the site i have decided to only charge a dollar for each link which stays up for a whole month.

Right now i'm trying to decide whether to use it or not.
Please leave a comment on what you think of it and if your really like it you could even buy a link. :)

Breaking a 1-inch board

Last night i went to tae-kwon-do where I had to show my parents what i had learnt during the year.

I got there and had to do my three patterns then did some self defense.
After that our teacher got out some 1 inch boards and said without any notice at all that we had to break them.
My teacher called me third and i walked up to him.
I aimed up the board then WHAMM!! It broke.
I felt so proud of myself as i had never done it before.
Now i know for some of you 1 inch might not seem that much but it really felt to me like i had achieve something big.

Next time i plan on breaking a 2 inch board.
Tonight i have some free time so plan on coding some programs.

Interesting read

While at the library i got a book called The Art of intrusion which talks about people that hacked into stuff. While i don't like hackers (the bad ones) i still find it real interesting to read. I would seriously suggest getting this book to read.

Seen as i already know about the basics i was able to speed through the first 2 chapters and the first half of the third chapter.
I can't spend that much time coding tonight as i have a tae-kwon-do show where we show our parents how much we have learnt over the year and i have to study for that science test tomorrow.

And to end on a good note I'm really grateful for the people that have zoomed any posts of mine.

Thanks again.