Measuring my progress

Thank you for all the birthday wishes! I had a wonderful party Saturday night - will post some photos "when I get around to it" ;)

On that note, !!! NEW PHOTOS !!! 新しい写真 !!! I just posted some photos from my first birthday party. Scroll down or follow this link:
Birthday Celebrations... Part I

Anyway, today I want to share a small personal triumph from work. Lately I've been working on a couple projects, one of which involves writing a little app that compresses video files. I'm still a bit of a newbie to Windows programming (most of my hardcore techie days were spent in front of a UNIX prompt) and until this month, I've been shunning the world of windows, writing text-based console apps whenever possible.

Lately, though, I've been learning more and more about Win32, MFC, and .NET, and for this project I decided to write a very simple window-based utility. So simple, in fact, that all it does is pop up a window with a status bar to let you know how far along the program is in the compression process.

At long last, yesterday, after many days of trials and errors and the diving-through of pages and pages of online documentation about DirectShow, timers, Windows message-passing, and darker, unspeakable things, I finally got my app working, WITH A PROGRESS BAR! I was so excited I took a screencap so I could share it with all of you. :)


Perhaps I'm still far from being an 31337 cyb3rh4x0r, but ... it's progress!