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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006
« Last post by Veign on January 01, 2007, 07:05 PM »
Will add this to the list of possible future additions.

What I want to do is see how or why people would use the website and add features to solidify those uses.

Keep the suggestions coming.
702
Developer's Corner / Re: How to Share Your Programs with the World (PAD Files, installers, etc.)
« Last post by Veign on January 01, 2007, 12:10 PM »
And of course submit them to my PAD Database:
http://www.paddatabase.com/

This will help get it some exposure.
703
Developer's Corner / Re: Need some help with VB5
« Last post by Veign on December 30, 2006, 04:09 PM »
Keep it short and let it finish.

Visual Basic can do a lot but making it do certain things is just not worth the effort.  True multithreading is one of those things.

In fact all of my applications had been written in VB6 - not too shabby.
704
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: PesterMe - v1.00.0 - December 30, 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 30, 2006, 03:56 PM »
Funny but could actually be useful.  Nice little app!
705
Developer's Corner / Re: Need some help with VB5
« Last post by Veign on December 30, 2006, 03:54 PM »
VB5 does not support multithreading.  Visual Basic is an apartment threaded environment and to get even something close to multithreaded* would not be for the faint at heart.

* - You could create an ActiveX EXE which would run in its own process space but you would need to use some sort of callbacks if this will run async.  This too may be too complex for ya.

Whether a computer can handle somthing or not is not the question.  The question / answer is whether the development environment or devloper can handle it.

(does a computer play sounds ontop of each other?  If I run Winamp and Media Player only one can play their sound at a time)

706
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 29, 2006, 11:55 AM »
Not only interesting, but feasible.  I will look into this.  Might be something for a future release.
707
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: A Dark and Deadly Path
« Last post by Veign on December 29, 2006, 11:44 AM »
Can it be adapted to videos like MPEG to create a Dragon's Lair type game?  Or maybe something that uses still images to progress through where quick reactions flip to another image.

Either way I see this as pretty interesting since it could be used for other things besides games - not sure what but it seems like it could.
708
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 29, 2006, 11:37 AM »
You mean to show a color scheme in a webpage built around their image where their image is just a place holder?  The code could be shown in a TextArea where they could easily copy and paste or download a pre-built html file.
709
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 29, 2006, 11:26 AM »
The colors stuff is something I need to read up on a lot more.  There is so much theory around it I just need to flesh out what useful to someone.  I do like the suggestions you have made and will look into these as a fun thing to do late Saturday night after the G/F has gone to sleep.

As far as HTML code.  That can't be done since the resized image is never stored on the server.  Its built in memory and streamed down the pipe to the users browser.  I need to be aware of bandwidth use so this doesn't cost me anything (I have no problem building stuff for free when its my time that is being put in but really not in a position to pay out of pocket).

I need to play around with Javascript / CSS popups and maybe offer a Color Scheme when you click one of the top ten colors or the primary and complementary colors.

So many ideas, so little time.
710
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: HEADS UP FOR NANY AUTHORS
« Last post by Veign on December 29, 2006, 11:17 AM »
Can't wait!
711
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 29, 2006, 11:13 AM »
Great idea.  I will see if I can get that implemented before Jan 1st.

Any other ideas?
712
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: A Dark and Deadly Path
« Last post by Veign on December 29, 2006, 09:46 AM »
Very interesting.  Can we assume you are going to build a sample game for it?
713
Official Announcements / Re: The 2006 Best Of Year-End Wrap.. Online!
« Last post by Veign on December 27, 2006, 03:52 PM »
Very nice.  This will be the only Top 2006 list that I will blog about.
714
Living Room / Re: How do I just give stuff away?
« Last post by Veign on December 26, 2006, 02:47 PM »
Options:
- Sell them on Ebay.  At least you would cover shipping
- Give them away to bloggers.  Just send them one with a note about consider blogging about it.
- Give one to Zaine  :D.  He would probably enjoy it and blog about it.  (http://www.thegsblog.com/).  The girls better be hot or he will let you know about it.
- My blog / address in case your interested (http://www.veign.com/blog/)
- Contact some of the mall Calendar Stands to see if they would push it.  Sell it to them so they can turn a profit.

If you want some constructive critism then you need to focus on the target market.  You're trying to sell a calendar titled Girls of Engineering but you don't show them in a geeky, engineering environment.  Therefore you have nothing more than a standard, plain bikini calendar with a different title and the same type of girls in a non-themed layout.  If you do it again, really play up the geekiness of it and make the girls sexy in a very geeky / engineering environment.  Just my .02.

Good luck.
715
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 25, 2006, 11:01 PM »
Updated the main posting with an image of the results page.  This shows the new information that is feed back: number of visually unique colors in the image.  I also list the top ten visual colors in the image.

Calculations on the top visual colors in an image is a work in progress as I need to delve deeper into the math of this.  The first shot is not bad but you can see some colors averaging out too much.

Comments?
716
General Software Discussion / Re: SHELLCITY'S BEST OF 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 25, 2006, 01:20 PM »
Exactly.   :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: SHELLCITY'S BEST OF 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 25, 2006, 01:09 PM »
No article.  Just a blog-type listing of freeware software.  This week the listings will be his best of 06.
718
General Software Discussion / Re: SHELLCITY'S BEST OF 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 25, 2006, 12:48 PM »
Great site and lots of freeware finds.
719
General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Office Upgrade (from 2002 to 2003)
« Last post by Veign on December 24, 2006, 05:49 PM »
Upgrade without buying?  How would that work?

Try:
http://www.amazon.co...andard-2003-Upgrade/...
720
Developer's Corner / Re: Very cool new SMF (simplemachines.org forum software) mod: Tags
« Last post by Veign on December 24, 2006, 09:21 AM »
I have already changed the code to have the DB settings removed.  Its a bit cleaner now. I still have to add the time/date stamp function at the end.

Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.

PS: Great PHP highlighter script.  Will be looking at using that somewhere.
721
Living Room / Re: Merry x-mas 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 23, 2006, 09:42 PM »
Merry Xmas to you and everyone else at DC.
722
N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 19, 2006
« Last post by Veign on December 23, 2006, 09:08 PM »
Did you choose to discard the background color?  If so then the color at 10,10 was sampled and removed from the calculations.  If it was not the actual background color then thats what happened.

If you have an image causing weird results than you can email me it so I could evaluate things better.

If I get time this week I will be working on a Top 3 list to list the top 3 colors in the image.
723
Developer's Corner / Re: Very cool new SMF (simplemachines.org forum software) mod: Tags
« Last post by Veign on December 23, 2006, 12:02 PM »
I posted thde code to:
http://www.veign.com...p?type=web&id=47

If you get a chance to test it please let me know if there are any improvements that should be made. (one thing I will be adding is a method that updates a date/time stamp of when a feed was last pulled).
724
Developer's Corner / Re: Very cool new SMF (simplemachines.org forum software) mod: Tags
« Last post by Veign on December 23, 2006, 12:16 AM »
Its all ready if you want it.

Right now it:
- Uses SimplePie as the feed parser
- Pulls requested feeds from a DB table (feed url, board id, member id)
- Uses some very basic configuration settings in the php file to control the look of the post

Being used on this forum:
http://www.scarymind...index.php?board=26.0
725
Developer's Corner / Re: Website Analyzing Website
« Last post by Veign on December 23, 2006, 12:03 AM »
Veign rates a 67
DonationCoder rates a 84 (wow!)
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