The Blog Revisited - 1
This blog is nearing its one year of existence. Since I had mostly worked with VBA (Visual basic for Applications) earlier, I was exploring the power of Visual Basic. Then a thought came to my mind “Is this learning too going to fade out from my mind with time as happened to my earlier learning?”. Earlier I had worked and developed on various applications and tools for CAD, 3-D renderings, morphing, photo/video editing, programming, all for fun and learning. But as of now I have lost most of the source codes saved in 1.2″ and 1.44″ floppies and Harddisks that crashed.
And then I registered with wordpress.com and decided to post everything that I learnt on it. This did continue for a short time period but then with a break in learning, the blog moved on to become another news and reviews blog and lost out.
And today I decided to revive the blog with a revisit to it’s old posts and in the meantime planning for future. Here is what appeared on this blog since December 12th 2006.
The blog started with a post on it’s goal namely Hello world!
Next I started with a problem. I needed to open a single instance of an application when opened files associated with this application. Working on this application made eager to learn more on WinAPI functions that for me was still uncharted (leaving the copy/paste that many do). This post spanned three posts Adding File Names to a ListBox, Adding File Names to a ListBox - 2, Adding File Names to a ListBox - 3
Windows messages had the prime role in the above application and now it was my turn to look deep into it and thus the next post More on SendMessage
One of the application that I always wanted to know for how it worked was password revealer. While studying Windows Messages it occurred to me that I had got the answer to it and it developed into an application described in Revealing Hidden Texts
In my early days of surfing internet I used to download most of the site pages using software as Teleport and now that I wanted to make a Bot app, I wanted to get to the most efficient way of extracting urls from page and that was Regular Expressions. Next two posts were related to them titled Regular Expressions in VB and Regular Expressions - A Primer.
The now I started working for the bot app that I described just above. This application spanned two posts Creating a Bot App - 1, Creating a Bot App - 2.
That’s all for this post.
I’ve been writing programs in one language or another since the days of the Spectrum 48k and whenever I move on to a new language it’s like I forget all of the previous one! the only thing I take from language to language is the format of the program.
even programs I wrote just a few months ago make no sense to me now LOL!
Comment by Andy Bailey — October 24, 2007 @ 9:34 am
Yes normally you improve and when you look back you will realise that you could have made the software better… it’s just that I worked hard on all the posts and now they are all lost (some not even indexed in google after I shifted domain)
Comment by Jalaj — October 30, 2007 @ 11:49 am