Programming @ MindSay

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And all the other phones like Blackberry etc. I honestly think it would be the coolest application, especially considering how much we all love mindsay, right? RIGHT? You better.

If I had the know-how I would totally make it myself, but I really think it would be an awesome idea. Just think, you could take a photo and instantly upload it to your blog straight from your phone! You could instantly update your blog with a funny story or just let everyone know what you're doing at work! You could access your inbox, your profile, and all the other things that makes mindsay so great!

If anyone out there knows how to do this sorta stuff! Please, let's all work together to make this happen!

Okay, I'm slooooowly getting my head wrapped around Microsoft's new whiz bang and conveniently free XNA studio.  It's....okay.  I have to accustom myself to C# which is one of those languages designed to prevent people from making programming mistakes by removing their ability to write programs.  No worries, however.  That's my old crusty C programmer speaking.  The environment you do all of this in, however, automates some things I've wanted automated for literally years.  I had a nerdgasm the first time I renamed a class by right clicking in the solution explorer window and just selecting an option to rename a class and watching it refactor all of my code for me.  I had my ~second~ nerdgasm when it let me do this with a source file name.  It constantly points out errors with a red underline as soon as you type them.

But!  The default setup on this thing is in some ways just atrocious. 

It, like Processing, highlights bookending parentheses and brackets for you.  This is, on the surface, is a Very Useful Thing.  You put the cursor next to a parenthesis or bracket and it highlights that parenthesis and its corresponding partner.  And, should you fail to properly bookend parentheses or brackets, it underlines them in red.  Problem is, when it 'highlight' a pair, it does so by making them white, with a bright gray background.  This most inconveniently COMPLETELY OBSCURES the cursor, the place where you type in text, the ONLY THING you ever keep your eyes on while typing in code.  I mean, the cursor DISAPPEARS, and your brain goes "Uh, hey, where is the cursor? I had all this perceptive hardware trained on it and all this cognitive capacity tracking it and it just blinked out of existence."  And this is disconcerting to your brain on a low level, when things it has learned to automatically track blink out of existence.  And then another part of your brain has to ~remember~ where you last saw it and tell that other part of your brain "It's right there, next to that parenthesis that's rendered on the light gray background."  And this gets tiring.  And there's another thing about this.  Years of using Windows has taught me that highlighted text is selected text, and that when I press a key when some text it highlighted, the selected text is deleted and replaced with what I type.  So, my brain also has to remind itself that when I type the next letter, nothing will be replaced.  More "having to consciously think" type stuff.

What prompted this post was that a few minutes ago, even though I've written numerous loops already, I typed "foreach" to signify that I'm writing a loop, and suddenly and without warning it finished the loop structure for me, minus the variable names I have to provide.  And of course this text was highlighted with a bright background that made it unreadable.  Of course.  I continue typing and for some reason this just pushes the highlighted (supposed) "helper" text on towards the end of the line. So I wind up having to manually delete the "helper" text that the IDE "helpfully" inserted to remind me how a loop looks.  Thanks, yeah, I can write a loop all on my own, I'm a big boy now!

ANYTIME you start typing a new word, it feels compelled to throw up an autocomplete window, which digs down to words that match what you're typing as you type.  Um, okay, yeah, I can remember just fine that "public" is a word in the language, I've been typing it for years in C++.  That's not annoying in and of itself, here's the annoying part.  If you completely finish typing the word the autocomplete box popped up to "help" you complete, the box just sits there dumbly.  If you press the tab key, the box goes away.  I, however, often press the tab key to, you know, insert a tab into the text.  So I type "public", then I press the tab key to tab over so I can start typing the name of the thing that is public.  But instead of inserting a tab into the code, it just makes the box I didn't need in the first place go away.  So when I start typing the identifier, it begins immediately after the "public" keyword, and I have to go back and manually separate my identifier from the keyword because my press of the tab key did not do what I expected it to.  I can press escape to remove the box, or I can just train myself to remember that I have to press tab twice now.  So, in the act of trying to automatically help me, it's actually created MORE work for me. Wow.

I'm not ~opposed~ to the features I've outlined.  I think they are highly useful for some people, beginners and novices.  I have no doubt they can be disabled, I'll just have to go and find out where and how they get disabled.  But I have to wonder, did they do any usability testing on this at all?  The thing that bugs me is, nobody who was testing these features spoke up to say, well, what I've said here.  Somebody thought hiding the cursor with a highlighted background was a perfectly good idea.  Heck, somebody thought text with a highlighted background that renders the ~text~ unreadable was a good idea?  Who thinks that?  *sigh*  Okay, rant over.  Now I'm going to go familiarize myself with the tools->options menu.

So, there are 20 minutes until school is over....and I get to go home. I didn't go to 1st and 2nd again today...I took a Benedryl and it knocked me out at like 9:00. I slept until 11:30...and woke up, and headed to school at like 12:10ish. Biology II starts at 12:35.

 

Today has been such a groggy day. =\ But, we're expecting snow tonight. 1-2 inch accumilation...which makes me happy 'cus there is a possibility of no school...always. This town is so scared of snow they close school before it even starts snowing. My allergies are going fucking mad...I got the sneezies, and runny nose, and head pressure...bleh. It's annoying and on top of everything I'm have the the second of two bad hair days in a row. =| EW. Lol...

So, I watched the coolest movie the other day

"Driving Lessons"

IT WAS AMAZING. Well, for me anyway. I <3 Rupert Grint.

 

Uhm, Justin isn't here today to turn my computer off in the middle of a blog entry, so I have like an extra 15 minutes to type. Lol. He normally types a bunch of jibberish and then pushes the power button just to piss me off. Then...I smack him...and ask him a question, then he threatens me...normal day for the two of us.

 

Other than that....

Programming is amazingly easy!!! It's pretty fun too. =] I mean...if you know what you're doing. I plan on going to college for something like it. Perhaps...web design. OR annimation. But shit, I don't even know what I'm doing day-to-day...so how should I know what I'm going to do in the near future? I don't. =]

 

Everyone should check out Rally Vincent on myspazz is you get the chance www.myspace.com/rallyvincent

They are so amazing and I'm in absolute love with them. They're amazing guys, that make amazing music, well...if you like punk music (which I love).  They're good friends of mine, and I want them to make it to the top...so check them out. <3

 

ttfn.

-nicole

 

I often read from antagonistic Lefties and homosexual addicts that there is no agenda to transform America into the morally relative thinking of acceptance of sinful and lecherous homosexuality as something beyond an alternative lifestyle, rather the agenda is to manipulate the moral thinking of Americans that homosexuality is normal and biological and thus non-acceptance and criticism fall into the descriptive words of hate-speech, bias, prejudice and bigotry.

 

Of course there is an agenda and I am finding out the homosexual programming begins in the California Public School system as early as two years old.

 

Think of that! The State is programming moral relativity and prohibiting NORMAL keys for training children such as Christian Morality or even that heterosexuality is normal.

 

If it is happening in California, what other Left leaning State (or Conservative State with a Leftie Judiciary) are programming our children to a proclivity of homosexuality and prohibiting the normalcy of Christianity and heterosexuality? For example when stories are read references to “Mom and Dad” or “Husband and Wife” are expunged and replaced with homosexual friendly terminology.

 

God Bless America and God HELP America from the evil devices inspired by the Accuser and Deceiver; it is such subtle deception that separated humanity from the Creator and twisting humanity in the Fall of human nature. Thank God there is a Deliverer that will ultimately shine light where such humanistic darkness pervades.

 

JRH