Wow! It's been a long time since I've updated my site. I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is, as you can see from the picture on the right, I'm now developing for Android! But more on that in a bit, let's get the bad news out of the way.
For anyone who has used them and sees this, obviously I used to develop computer programs. Two in particular, Folder Axe and ReStartMe, actually became quite popular! Unfortunately, maybe about a few weeks after I posted my last blog post (So, over a year and a half ago) I had a terrible thing happen, I lost all of my source code!
What happened was, I had a local backup of all of my code on a separate hard drive, and I had a program (which shall not be named) which was in charge of syncing any and all changes from my working/main folder to my backup folder. Now, let it be known now that I had this set up as a one way sync, but obviously this program didn't care. My backup hard drive crashed, taking with it all of my manually backed up files, and my automatically backed up source code. This (again, unnamed) terrible sync program then corrupted my working folder on my main drive the next time it went to sync! And so just like that, I lost everything.
As you could imagine, I was pretty down. To recreate those programs would be near impossible at the time. And at this point I remember so little VB that I couldn't do it anyway. But a few months ago I got the itch to program, so I decided to try Android out. I started teaching myself Java and Android-specific Java, and finally I've released my first App, Simbal! I'll create another blog post dedicated to it, but if you're so interested that you want it right now, here's the link to the Play Store.
So, bkPrograms is now in a transition phase. Don't be surprised if things move around or disappear as I start maintaining this site again!
For anyone who has used them and sees this, obviously I used to develop computer programs. Two in particular, Folder Axe and ReStartMe, actually became quite popular! Unfortunately, maybe about a few weeks after I posted my last blog post (So, over a year and a half ago) I had a terrible thing happen, I lost all of my source code!
What happened was, I had a local backup of all of my code on a separate hard drive, and I had a program (which shall not be named) which was in charge of syncing any and all changes from my working/main folder to my backup folder. Now, let it be known now that I had this set up as a one way sync, but obviously this program didn't care. My backup hard drive crashed, taking with it all of my manually backed up files, and my automatically backed up source code. This (again, unnamed) terrible sync program then corrupted my working folder on my main drive the next time it went to sync! And so just like that, I lost everything.
As you could imagine, I was pretty down. To recreate those programs would be near impossible at the time. And at this point I remember so little VB that I couldn't do it anyway. But a few months ago I got the itch to program, so I decided to try Android out. I started teaching myself Java and Android-specific Java, and finally I've released my first App, Simbal! I'll create another blog post dedicated to it, but if you're so interested that you want it right now, here's the link to the Play Store.
So, bkPrograms is now in a transition phase. Don't be surprised if things move around or disappear as I start maintaining this site again!
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