I woke up at 5 a.m. That darn kitten Pet apparently decided that since everyone was asleep and things were “boring”, she had to wake somebody up, and since I was the only one around and the door to the hallway was closed, she went for me. She crept under my duvet and started biting and scratching me (and she can scratch quite well for her size). At first I thought it was Vosmrnda, but I soon realized that Vosmrnda would never do that. After a short fight I got up, and Vosmrnda came in from the next room.
He got a pouch of cat food, and while he was eating it Pet kept pestering him, so Vosmrnda growled at her as if she were a real threat. A little one like that is still relatively harmless, as long as she doesn’t bite your feet :D. I went to brush my teeth and wash up, and then sat down at the PC.
My brother wasn’t up yet, so it was quieter. At the PC I mostly spent longer stretches programming and shorter ones doing something else, and it went on like that until 1 p.m., when Petka messaged me. If you’re curious what exactly I was doing until then, I was, for example, figuring out which calendar would suit me best. Yes, until now I’ve practically managed without a calendar, but now I want to try it “differently”. I don’t like Google Calendar, and I don’t want to use anything that isn’t made by a big company, so the only option left was Microsoft Calendar, and that’s what I focused on.
I found out that when I’m in the W8 app and add a new event there, I can’t set it to also notify me by email. Only a W8-style notification, which stays on the screen for just a moment, and if you don’t see it at that moment or you’re away from the PC, it won’t remind you again. So I bookmarked Windows Calendar and I’m going to create the events there. It syncs with the PC, so I’ll see them here even without the web, and besides the desktop notification I’ll also get an email.
Then I daydreamed a bit about finally finishing that book (I’m going through the code samples from the book Mastering WPF) and my other unfinished programs that I urgently need to complete (one of them will be a program for backing up posts from this blog – I won’t go into much detail here for now, since I don’t know when I’ll get to it; in any case it will save them in the standard export format of Blogger or WordPress, and I’ll publish the program, so everyone will be able to back up their posts here on blog.cz – or even back up the posts of someone else’s blog, so I hope it doesn’t get out of hand.
It also just occurred to me that I’ll have to improve that program a bit, because so far it didn’t transfer comments, it simply ignored them, and some people might not be too happy about that), and then dive into my 2 programs for Windows 8 (Windows Store Apps), which are almost finished, they just didn’t pass certification because of minor loose ends and glitches. It was that very book, Mastering WPF, that made me take another look at the prices of W8 tablets on Heureka. They haven’t dropped a single cent, everything is the same as almost a year ago, they’re all still terribly expensive.
There was one for 8 thousand, but it only had an 8” screen, and I absolutely need at least 10. I’d like a tablet like that with a touchscreen for 3 reasons:
- It could serve everyone here, especially for apps that require touch or are easier to control by touch
- It could serve me if I didn’t have this PC or if I were somewhere I couldn’t take this PC with me
- It would be handy for testing how an app handles on a touchscreen
However, it’s not a priority.
Everyone here has their own PC, my laptop still works too, and the apps – well, that’s probably the only reason. Maybe next month, if I stop spending money; I’ve already spent enough, the biggest item being a new camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ1, for almost 3,000 CZK. Before Petka went quiet, I managed to ask her what she thought about copying out those code samples by hand.
I tried to describe it as accurately as I could, but the answer I got was that she didn’t know exactly what I meant, but that I shouldn’t copy out anything I don’t need. So I stopped copying them by hand and now I just copy and paste the code and go through it. Then I decided to liven up this blog a bit, after all I promised it wouldn’t be abandoned. I’m already writing this article for it, and I’m worried about how you’ll receive it.
After all, on my Blogger blog these “what I did all day” articles had almost no success. Anyway, I’m already battling with Blog.cz. I found an article called “Good night :)” that I had written back then, probably even before the first published article, and it contained some fragments of the post “First post“. So I deleted it, but it still stayed in my Drafts! What confuses me even more is that now I also have this article in Drafts, but neither this one nor “Good night :)” shows a checkbox for deleting it.
That checkbox only shows up in the “Deleted” article category. So I deleted the article “Good night :)” there, hoping it would also disappear from Drafts. But no, it was still there, and when I clicked on it I could read “This article is no longer available” or something like that. But now everything is as it should be, because it no longer shows up in Drafts.
In the evening I didn’t get much done. Actually, I don’t even remember what I did. I topped up my PaySec account, because I wanted to pay for a premium account somewhere. And that’s about all I wanted to tell you.