An Analog Clock Component

During these days, I've attended some programming challenge in a forum. It's quite fun because that can horne my skills and of course show some showoff hehe ;D. It's also a great task to spend my weekend (because I'm still single and nothing to do. If I have a girlfriend, things will be different :D ).

TheClock, is my latest component that mimic clock sidebar on Vista. For now, it's still have one style (modern). At this time, it only has a standard features, but I've reserved some functions for future. Also I've engineered the class so I can insert a new feature easily in the future (If I have time of course te..he..).

Here's some screen shot:
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http://www.geocities.com/mick_rawi/3.jpg

You can download the code at: http://www.geocities.com/mick_rawi/TheClock.zip

That's for now. Sorry for lack documentation and explaination about this component, because I'm still not good in those two. But I'm learning for it okay ? Of course I know that presentation ability is one of most important things to make customer in the future.

Actually, I've created many more good stuff (at least for me), that I want to share with everyone. But, right now, I'm don't have enough time to do that. For meanwhile, enjoy "TheClock" :D

Gateway Switcher and .NET Deployment

Today I've created a new application called Gateway Switcher. It's basically a small program that change my internet gateway. The background for this program is that my company has operate 2 gateway for internet connection. When the first offline, the other will active. It's really annoying just to change connection all the time since my connection is very unstable.

Basically, Windows XP (don't test it on Vista), has stored connection data on the registry. So my application do a little trick to manipulate them. It's use a simple Win32 registry function to change this settings, yet it's a little difficult to learn how to use this function.

After this, I've planned on distributing this files through Marketing Division, which I think need this tools the most, since they are 2nd active internet user after my team :). I've learn some method of deployment in .NET, and I will use MSI installer for this distribution.

Blogger and Microsoft Word 2007

I've use Microsoft Office 2007 for a while and already know that it has the ability to publish a blog. So since I have a blog, I want to make use of this tool and find out what its result. If things happen smoothly, I won't have to connect to the internet if I want to post a blog (FYI, internet connection in Indonesia is a hell slow). As you know, Microsoft Office 2007 is the newest office product from Microsoft. And the one that make me a little happy is that I have used it before it commercially sold (I used it last year, while Office 2007 officially being RTM last month J ).

I'm curious about this can do. . .

It shows that I can insert a smart art too, but I don't think it will be useful with a blog.

After posting a few blogs, I realized that I need to improve my typing skill. Its very pain to type and press backspace so often. Now I regret had underestimate my typing class in high school long time ago.

Ok then, time to test this feature now. . .

Tool Tip Enhancement

This morning I've learn some enhancement using Tooltip component from Visual Studio 2005. What a cool technique it was. After reading much technology articles during this months make me feel more and more stupid. Yes, the more I read, the more that I realized that there are soo much things to learn. Unfortunately there's so little time to do since I will be busy in the next week, since my team had been assigned to a new project.

When I was at my collage, it feels like time run very slow (especially during those boring class), but now, it feels like time flows very fast. If you can't make a move, then you'll always left behind.

Ok, back to work again.