dwmcc - Dylan Wadsworth McCarthy

Subversion with Apache2 (Linux!)

I’ve spent a little bit of time every day last week trying to figure out how to manage repositories through Apache2 with the Subversion server. Boy, what a pain. Although documentation exists, the integration with Apache is a little bit…

SeedSlayer: Auto-stop seeding on torrents

A while back, I realized that there must be thousands of people who sit around their computers, waiting for torrents to finish downloading, so that they can stop it from seeding. That's why SeedSlayer was developed...

Torrenting/P2P/Filesharing: How it Works

There are millions of people around the world who use P2P (Peer-to-Peer) file sharing to easily and quickly share files. Some of the files being shared are legal, some are not. Although the majority of the P2P and filesharing…

Converting a String to an Integer and Back Again – Sikuli

Recently, while experimenting with Sikuli, and asking questions in the forums, I ran across a helpful tidbit: How to convert a string to an integer and back again. The process is quite simple. If you are, say, keeping…

Visual Basic ‘Hello World’

A quick tutorial on printing ‘Hello World’ in Visual Basic:

First, open Visual Basic. If you don’t have it, download it here.

Create a new ‘Windows Forms Application’, and name it ‘Hello World’.

You’ll then be…

Program: Web Browser Lite

An application I developed in Visual Basic, it allows for non-cluttered, easy access to the web. No toolbars, no add-ons, no themes, just a stripped down, extremely lite browsing experience. I developed this because of the want to have…

Program: PinnacleHandler

While working at the 21st Century After School Program, student’s missing assignments are handed out as an update, to see where they are academically.

Problem:

We have students from three different schools that attend the After School Program. The grading…

Sikuli ‘Hello World’

My last few posts have been about the popular programming tool developed by MIT, called Sikuli [Sick-ooh-lee]. More information is available at http://www.sikuli.org. That being said, I’m going to show you just how easy Sikuli is by…

Restart Script [Redirect/Loop to Beginning] in Sikuli

Just wanted to point out an awesome function for restarting your script, or looping back to the beginning of the script in Sikuli. For those of you who don’t know what Sikuli is, check out my post here. The code…

Sikuli – Visual Screenshot Programming for Program to Program Interaction

For those of you who don’t know about Sikuli [Sick-ooh-lee], It’s a visual programming language for virtually every operating system out there. It relies on screenshots to interact with other programs on your computer. Basically, it’s program to program…