PersistentWindows 1.0.5 and other updates!

Well 2014 has come and gone in a blink of an eye! Updates have been delayed due to various priorities as I was blessed with the birth of my second child the past year. I haven’t posted a new video, nor made updates to my little pet projects because it’s really hard to when you have an infant sleeping in the room adjacent to your “recording studio/living room”. That’s Manhattan living for you, but I still love it!

Regardless, mostly because of my amazing wife, I finally am able to get a full nights rest and continue delivering on my hobbies and ideas.

So first project update. I received such a motivating email from a random user who picked up PersistentWindows thanking me for the time I spent on it. I don’t ever expect to make any money off of that project and it was really intended to solve a problem that I was constantly dealing with at work myself. I did recently make some updates, based on some feedback and will continue to make some slow progress on the project, but just mostly out of necessity when pain drives change. 1.0.5 is released and has slightly smarter logic on when/how to capture the modified windows. Before, I was trying to capture based upon Windows Events, specifically if I received an event of a power change mode, I was going to capture the window changes and then when I receive a display change settings I could ignore the windows changing positions. However, what was actually happening was that the windows were moving prior to power event being broadcasted and thus my logic failed.

Now, I just wrote some logic that tries to determine if a number of windows larger than “X” change within one second. Currently X is 4 and My Theory is that no human can reliably modify the location of 4 windows in one second. If it turns out that people can, then I will bump up X or make it configurable, but so far at work that setting is doing just fine.

Second project update, I have received a few more awesome comments from generous people asking for more and as the subscribers are almost hitting 200, I’m disappointed that I can produce more content at the moment. I do have another video ready, based on user feedback, the problem is solved and script written, it’s just that almost every time I want to record I wake up the little one and have to stop. Some of my friends have suggested, “Make a funny video”, “Bait people in with a intro photo” or some other suggestion that would basically taint the reason I’m creating videos in the first place. My goal is to teach and spread knowledge and there are already so many more people out there funnier and more attractive than me. So with that, I will stay on topics and themes and hope that some how I can be a tiny impact in the direction that gives me satisfaction.

So with that, I do hope that this month or next I can finally get out another video!

“Keep on coding on” my fellow programmers!