I just found that, the JPrayer Clock I built cannot run properly in Linux. The prayers didn’t show up, including the tray icon. Might be the file path problem.

Previously, I compared ChromePlus and SRWare Iron. Today, I think ChromePlus is better. Google Chrome 6.x beta already released. But SRWare Iron still using Chromium 4.x. That is why, I tried out ChromePlus, which uses Chromium 5.x. And there is no problem to play the WMA files. So, I choose ChromePlus now.

Besides that, there is also Linux version for ChromePlus.

A son told his father, “I want freedom, you autocratic father! Do you think giving money can buy my soul?” Then the son took the money and left the father. Hopefully, the son will grow into a good man.

Comment: 身在福中不知福

After a long time for studying Java, I finally successfully port the Prayer Clock to Java version. It is available in my Google Site. I not yet try the JPrayer Clock in Ubuntu or other OSes. But it works in Windows.

I am learning Java to build cross-platform applications in the future. Since I would like to develop application using Linux.

And I use the native system look and feel theme. Because I don’t like the Metal look.

The Novena to the Holy Spirit is started on Friday, 6th Week of Easter. We can start the prayers by today.

However, in my Prayer Clock, I have mis-calculated the day. Please, if you are interested, download the prayers.xml from my site.

I tried the WordPress theme. It is really nice. And I used x10hosting.com for the PHP. Really plan to move everything to the WordPress blog. But that will be a lot of works. And afraid that I don’t have time to manage the WordPress blog. Maybe, I can try to categorise the contents of the blogs I have.

Visit my WordPress blog if you like.

Since found that WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal are very popular as CMS (Content Management System), especially WordPress for blogging, then I am trying this thing. But that means I need to manage it. So, this is my first post using this WordPress.

I tried to install Flash in Ubuntu. But there is a problem when installing “flashplugin-installer”. I cannot finish download the installation file from Ubuntu server. So, I tried alternative way to install Flash plugin.

I go to Adobe website, and download the Debian package. Then
sudo dpkg –install [filename].deb

Right, now can view Flash in web browser.

Now it is the time to move from Windows to cross-platform, as a developer.

I was using Visual Studio Express Edition (freeware) for Windows development. Now I am using MinGW with MSYS. Cause GCC is a cross-platform compiler. Familiar with GCC allows me to develop cross-platform application. There are a lot of software libraries can be compiled with MinGW.

Using Visual Studio Express Edition, we do not have MFC for GUI development. However we can use Win32 API to create the GUI widget. But this indicates that our source code is highly depending on Windows platform. There are a lot of alternatives for GUI development, such as GTK+, Qt, wxWidget, FLTK, etc. Why using these libraries? If you are depending on these libraries, if these libraries are cross-platform, then your source code will be cross-platform also.

Just to announce that the Prayer Clock 0.0.6 is released.

I have redesigned the algorithm and the data structure. Besides that, some features are added such as “Prayers” item that allows the user to show different prayers. The followings are some screenshots:

GTK+ in Windows.

GTK+ in Ubuntu Linux. Very nice, right?

Since Easter is coming, hopefully I have time to add in Divine Mercy Novena.