I’ve hit a few snags over the course of the past two weeks and decided to make some enhancements to make myself feel better.

First, the snags:

I was so angry with the performance and hassle of Windows Vista that I decided to switch to Windows 7. After reinstalling all of my old software and getting everything set the way it was in Vista, I proceeded to hack Windows 7 the same way I hacked Vista. Unfortunately, that didn’t work, so I ended up with an OS that crashed every 26 seconds when I tried to empty the recycle bin. As much fun as that was, I figured I should reinstall Windows 7 to fix the damage I had done. When that didn’t work, I blindly reformatted and reinstalled from scratch. As it turns out, I’m an idiot, and I forgot to save a copy of the PocketPress source code. I lost everything. So, now, I’m going to have to start PocketPress from scratch – and this pisses me off a little.

And now, the enhancements:

The comments on Tango Smileys Extended are several pages long now, so I find myself answering the same questions over and over. Since comments are obviously not the best way to offer support, I’ve decided to add a support forum. I’m working on adding some basic topics to the forum, and I’ll add a link later.

I’ve been really lax in making some posts here, and the main reason is that I didn’t have anything to share. Considering the new project that I have undertaken (see PocketPress), I think I have plenty to share now. Thus begins my series of posts about my adventures in programming with C# in Visual Studio 2008.

I put together a few test programs in various languages, mainly C++, C# and VB, as well as PPL and Java, before finally deciding on C#.  By far, the easiest for me to program would be VB, since I’ve already done a fair bit of VB programming, and C++ would be a close second. PPL and Java felt like more effort than it was worth, considering I have no experience in either and I can get the same thing done with less effort in any other language. I finally decided on C# for its easy form designing, like VB.NET, and familiar programming flow, like C++.

I still have a lot to learn about programming in C#, but it doesn’t feel like it’s going to be very difficult. I guess we’ll see!

A while back, I wrote about a Windows Mobile WordPress publisher app called moBlog. As a matter of fact, I wrote the post using moBlog. moBlog was designed to allow people using Windows Mobile to publish to their WordPress blogs.

At the time I was using an HTC Apache (6700) and it had a standard QVGA [240x320] screen. Now, however, I’m using a Samsung Omnia (SCH-i910) – with a WQVGA [240x400] screen, and moBlog is not compatible. Actually, I’ve looked into three other WinMo apps with very limited success – meaning two crashed instantly and the last took nearly 10 minutes to enter the setup screen, and then it crashed. So what is PocketPress?