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Programs :: Utilities

These utilities are for general use by anyone who wants or needs to use them. As with most things like this, the utilities are provided as is and should be treated as such. Personally, I have had no trouble with any of these on a variety of platforms, but strange things can happen.

Windows Mobile 6

Ramen Timer

Just what everyone needs: a ramen timer for their phone! This was developed using FBA The Creator. (ramen timer source files)

DXL

userlistwindow.dxl – This creates a dialog box that displays the list of DOORS users alphabetically.

Web-based

Puzzles

Logic Grid Creator Helper – This tool was designed to help those wanting to write logic grid teasers for Braingle, but it can be used to help create or solve logic problems for and from other places. It uses a combination of PHP and Javascript and is a good place to see examples of manipulating styles, PHP images, and using PHP and JS in conjunction with each other. (logic grid creator source)

Cryptogram Checker/Creator – This tool was designed to help reviewers and editors corroborate cryptography teasers for Braingle, but it can be used to help create or check cryptograms for and from other places. It uses a circular PHP design that minimizes space and run time. (cryptogram checker/creator source)

Games

Checkers/Draughts Game Reviewer – This tool was designed to review the moves in a game on a checkerboard. It can use both standard checkers notation, where the squares that are used are numbered from 1 to 32, and grid coordinates, where the columns are labeled a-g and the rows are labeled 1-8. It has very little error checking at the moment, so the games must be checked before being used. (checkers/draughts game reviewer source)

Checkers/Draughts Move Converter – This tool was designed to convert standard checkers notation, where the squares that are used are numbered from 1 to 32, to grid coordinates, where the columns are labeled a-g and the rows are labeled 1-8. It uses a circular PHP design that minimizes space and run time. (checkers/draughts move converter source)

FBA The Creator

GFX Font Spacing Creator – FBA The Creator allows developers to use their own bitmapped fonts, but creating them can be tedious. To that end, this tool removes most of the tedium by automatically creating the line that denotes spacing for a gfx font file. (gfx font spacing creator source)

Miscellaneous

Navigation Generator – This tool was designed to generate the code for the PHP/ECMAScript menus that I used for the previous version of this site. Basically, I didn’t want to have figure out how I did my menus every time I wanted to update my site; it’s too complicated and tedious. The plus side of all this is that I was even able to greatly improve the code I use for my menu, so it is much more efficient and easier to read. (navigation generator source)

Random Selector – This tool was designed to randomly select an item from the list of choices within the text field. It can also be used to select multiple items. (random selector source)

Anagram Lister – The purpose of this tool is to create a list of words of a given length that have single-word anagrams. I wrote it to help me write anagrammatic word squares, but it may be useful for writing different types of word games. (anagram lister source)

Soul Glo Lyrics – One of the mini-movies that I was tasked to create for MegaFault was some programming code. I decided to have two screens of php code and have it look like someone was scrolling through one and then the other. The code on the right was my Biorhythm graphing tool. The code on the right was the Soul Glo Lyrics code presented here. The code prints out the lyrics to the commercial for Soul Glo in “Coming to America”, in reference to Eriq La Salle’s character Derryl “Mr. Soul Glo” Jenks. (Soul Glo lyrics source)

Windows Standalone

SuperTAM

This is a program I wrote to help me with my job doing technical support for Applied Systems. I was supporting a proprietary software that was written to help insurance agencies with their work. This utility has a look up for the code of the day, and an error message translator.

Code of the Day

This is the precursor of SuperTAM. It only looks up the code of the day. It actually works better than the sheets they used to give us (which were prone to errors).

Timer

This is a very simple timer that counts up from zero. I used it when I was doing tech support and had to limit my call time to fifteen minutes.