I have been so busy I haven’t played with App Inventor in a long time. Yesterday I read an interesting article about MIT taking over the project. That got me wanting to get things set up again and see where it was at.It was frustrating because I couldn’t get my phone to connect to the [...]

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This is funny to me in light of my last post. I have installed UnixODBC, I installed the gui tool to manage it and then I installed MDBTools to allow me to connect to a JET database. (This is all on my Fedora 12 machine by the way for those just joining us.) [...]

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January of last year UnixODBC spun off non-core code to separate projects of their own. The reasoning they give on their site makes sense. I’m just not sure I follow all the ramifications when it comes to how this works out on the user level with different distros. What I do know [...]

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On my little PyQt email program I wanted to be able to generate a list of who would get the emails. I wanted to see this before I actually sent them. I wanted a name and an email to go with it. This means getting the data into a model and then [...]

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Ran into Netbeans bug 163029 today. Wish I hadn’t spent a couple hours trying to figure out why it wouldn’t work.Netbeans has a nifty template system and I decided that I would take advantage of it. I found a handy tutorial to take it a step further and create a template module that [...]

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