Notch tweeted yesterday that Minecraft is going gold next week!  I’ve been on the beta for at least a year, and with the latest additions, I almost feel lost in the game, having not played the last few updates.  I welcome a final release, I wonder what pricing he’ll place on it.  I’d like to think I saved some money being in the “beta program”.

So I bring up the ODBC Data Source Administrator tool to try and add my MDB file.  I could not find a way to add my new data source.  All it listed was two SQL Server entries.  Doing a quick Google search, it turns out the other data sources are security risks so they are “dissabled”.

If you ran into this same problem, navigate to ‘C:\windows\SysWOW64′ in Windows Explorer.  Right-Click on ‘odbcad32.exe’ and select ‘Run as administrator’.

You should now be able to add MDB files as well as all the other formats that you could in Windows XP.

Media Center Master is the software I am currently evaluating, but it’s way overkill.  I think if I ever release this project, I’ll make it geared just for Boxee.

Wish me luck, I don’t have a very good track record of releasing any of my side projects.

Before going to bed Friday night, I started watching the Dexter series.  That ruined my Saturday because I couldn’t stop watching it!

Sunday was time for family, unfortunately my wife had to work, but she caught up with us later in the afternoon.  I’ll try and get my updates to the site done by the end of this week.  Though I’m seriously thinking about watching seasons 2 & 3 of Dexter.  I MUST BE PRODUCTIVE INSTEAD!

A Computer Programmer’s Wife Asks Him to Go To The Store

Look forward to…

• New look
• Facebook integration
• Blog post about developing websites as applications (using PHP classes)
• Better about page which will contain information about me and some of my career highlights

An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.”

If you don’t do any sort of advanced utilization of DOJO, you may never experience any issues.  I, however, found it to be a pain to get DOJO classes to show up properly in my docs.

Let’s use a simple class as an example…

dojo.declare("SnakeClass", null,

{

  constructor: function(breed)

  {

    this._breed = breed;

  },



  GetBreed: function()

  {

    return this._breed;

  },



  SetMorph: function(morph)

  {

    this._morph = morph;

  },



  GetMorph: function()

  {

    return this._morph;

  },

});

OK, here’s how I originally would have commented this code…

/**

* Represents a single snake.

* @author jbfreels 

* @see Reptiles#

* @class

*/

dojo.declare("SnakeClass", null,

{

  /**

  * New snake

  * @param breed The breed of snake.

  * @constructor

  */

  constructor: function(/**String*/ breed)

  {

    this._breed = breed;

    this._morph = "normal";

  },



  /**

  * @returns {String} Breed of the snake.

  */

  GetBreed: function()

  {

    return this._breed;

  },



  /**

  * Sets morph type of the snake.

  * @param morph Morph type of snake.

  */

  SetMorph: function(/**String*/ morph)

  {

    this._morph = morph;

  },



  /**

  * @returns {String} Morph type of the snake.

  */

  GetMorph: function()

  {

    return this._morph;

  },

});

Here’s what jsdoc outputs…

This does no one any good. Let’s try and trick the jsdoc parser to think this is a valid class (since it kind of is).

dojo.declare("SnakeClass", null,

{

  /** @lends SnakeClass# */



  /**

  * Snakes, snakes everywhere!

  * @param breed The breed of snake.

  * @class Represents a single snake.

  * @author <a href="mailto:jb@tech-tiles.com">J.B. Freels</a>

  * @see Reptiles#

  * @constructs

  */  

  constructor: function(/**String*/ breed)

  {

    this._breed = breed;

    this._morph = "normal";

  },



  /**

  * Retrieve breed of the snake.

  * @returns {String} Breed of the snake.

  */

  GetBreed: function()

  {

    return this._breed;

  },



  /**

  * Sets morph type of the snake.

  * @param morph Morph type of snake.

  */

  SetMorph: function(/**String*/ morph)

  {

    this._morph = morph;

  },



  /**

  * Retrieve morph type of the snake.

  * @returns {String} Morph type of the snake.

  */

  GetMorph: function()

  {

    return this._morph;

  },

});

And here’s what we get with jsdoc…