-----I was using HTML manifests on some of my calculator apps on this site, which made it possible to run the app locally, which sounded like a nice feature, but the browser made it sound so horrible to visitors that I decided to take the feature off. "This site wants to store files locally, are you sure you want to allow this?" firefox would say. from now on, my browser apps don't use this feature.----

This site is simply here for informational purposes, but visit the fun section anyway. You will find a lot of information on computers. I update or create some page pretty much weekly. External links are in bold.

Software distribution problem

Hosting vendors everywhere are forcing their customers to stop distributing software. I am one of them. sorry folks.

they also have new policies against files being >2GB.

and I am *paying* for hosting.

I can't find any place to go where I can host my software and get paid for it so I can make a living. sourceforge.net and github both are Open Source only. egnyte file hosting costs $30/mo (3x my hosting) and has no guarantee of anon ftp access to the public, Amazon S3 at $16/mo is the only anon FTP hosting place around except for maybe akamai (I have not checked into akamai). and I only get 100 users (user accounts that is). so I guess I am going SourceForge.net. I don't care for wikis and that's what you get on sf.net. update: they said I could link to my software.

This is a 775-page PC-oriented site, though once in a long while you will find some Mac tidbits. I am learning bits more about the Mac as I go along.

To navigate this site, click the yellow closed folder next to the menu items to expand them. It works kind of like the Windows Explorer. To collapse, click the opened folder again.

This QR Code is JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com, my business site. it is NOT designed for mobile browsing yet. The QR Code was generated using the Google API.

This QR Code is VancouverWAHomeLandGuide.com, my mother's site. it is NOT designed for mobile browsing yet either. The QR Code was generated using the Google API.

what programming is like for me

social networking... Is Jim Michaels on:

facebook?

no, for security reasons

twitter?

Surprisingly you would think that with a -page web site, I would be a talky person, but I have a hard time talking to people. but I do like to write about engineering subjects. I mostly share information that I have learned either from experience or from on the internet. I don't know what I could share in 140 characters or less.

Ask me a question and I will try my best to answer it, but twitter is for the birds for now. anything I've got to say I'll say on my web site or in an email, maybe on the phone.

besides, twitter is getting dangerous to have with some of the new apps that are coming out.

so for security reasons, no.

linkedin?

no. don't spam me with requests.

stubleupon?

no.

googleface or whatever that new thing was

no, for security reasons. it has resemblence to george orwell's big brother.

about my programming

The languages I currently use for development are:

• NSIS installer
• C++
• Auto-it3 (BASIC-like GUI language)
• PHP
• SQL
• Perl
• Assembler
• JavaScript
• BASIC-like languages
• flex
• bison
• Java
• minimal stuff with Flash.
• Tcl
• whatever is thrown at me pretty much... - except LISP - it ties my mind in knots.

Languages I used in College

• Actor (dervative of Smalltalk)
• Modula-2
• C
• C++
• Pascal
• x86 Assembler
• P/byte-Code interpreter
• languages spec'd (very simple specs) by the instructor

Certifications have not benefitted me and seem to be a waste of my resources. I know basically what I can do.

Windows GUI programming I tried once before using MFC, but now I am trying to tackle it using only the Win32 API. any help is greatly appreciated. Now I would like to work with combo boxes and list boxes without using a resource editor, and using mingw and mingw-w64. I might end up using a GUI toolkit to make everything easier because the message passing system of windows is a pain.

I think I could do embedded systems given some practice. Real-time Embedded is another matter, that would take some study into the subject.

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