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PAQ8PX Python Script 1
A simple script to compress files using the very powerful PAQ8PX compression software

A simple script to compress files using the very powerful PAQ8PX compression software

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Hi everyone, Today, I’d like to share with you a Python script I wrote that enables file and folder compression using the latest version of the powerful PAQ8PX compression software. PAQ is a compression software originally developed by Matt Mahoney and released under the GPL license. It has a lot of contributors and has had lots of changes since it was originally introduced. PAQ8PX is one of the most powerful (and slowest) compression software that is actively under development. You…

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Yet another update of the Google Drive software I wrote (v1.8.3)

Yet another update of the Google Drive software I wrote (v1.8.3)

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Hi everyone, Today morning, I continued working with the Google Drive Upload Tool I wrote last year. This time, I implemented a feature that lets you know the copy progress when a file is being copied to RAM before uploading it. This required some code changes and a little refactoring. First, the UpdateBytesSent function was updated, with a new Delegate Sub invoker for when we need to invoke certain elements. It also now requires the passing of parameters BytesSent, StatusText, and startTime: By doing this code rewrite,…

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Gridcoin New Users Report generator fixed for the LHC@Home project

Gridcoin New Users Report generator fixed for the LHC@Home project

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Hi everyone, In the past few days, I changed the URL of the stats for the LHC@Home project. They moved the links and the previous URL was no longer working. This has been fixed and LHC@Home stats are now being included in the New User Report Generator: Additionally, There’s a problem that’s out of my control where the SETI@Home files seems to be corrupted or something. The software complains that the <users> tag in the XML file seems to be…

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Squashing bugs in the Google Drive Upload Tool (v1.8.2)

Squashing bugs in the Google Drive Upload Tool (v1.8.2)

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Hi everyone, In these days, I’ve been squashing bugs in the Google Drive Upload Tool software. Bugs fixed in the latest commits are the following: Fixed exceptions when renaming file/folder or restoring file/folder There was an error that occurred when no file or folder was selected and attempting to rename it or restore it from the trash. The issue was fixed by checking if the Listboxes are not nothing: Fixed an annoying issue after pressing CTRL + <insert shortcut key…

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Google Drive Uploader & Explorer v1.8.1 Bug Fix released

Google Drive Uploader & Explorer v1.8.1 Bug Fix released

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Hi everyone, So yesterday, I released v1.8 of my Google Drive Uploader & Explorer v1.8. Turns out that the release had a bug relating to uploading files when using the “Copy File to RAM before uploading if there’s enough Free Memory available” option. v1.8.1 fixes this issue The problem was that sometimes the RAM copy would be larger than the actual file because it used a buffer size (where a chunk of data was stored before moving it to RAM) of 1 MB….

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Google Drive Uploader & Explorer v1.8 released!

Google Drive Uploader & Explorer v1.8 released!

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Hi everyone, Today, I’m pleased to announce Google Drive Uploader & Explorer v1.8. This release is once again packed with new features! First, we have new menu items that give easy access to stuff like uploading (obviously), downloading, creating new folders, saving checksums, renaming, and moving and restoring files to/from the trash. It also allows for software configuration with several options, including sorting your files! Second, there’s the software StatusStrip (That’s what you see at the bottom). The StatusStrip gives you…

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Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.7
Google Drive Upload Tool v1.7 released!

Google Drive Upload Tool v1.7 released!

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Hi everyone, Today, I have released v1.7 of my tool Google Drive Upload Tool. This is a release with lots of new features. Let’s check them out: Features: Download more than one file or a folder content: Simply, select a file, files, or a folder and press ALT + D. Select a folder to save them and the download will begin. Save the checksums of an entire folder content: Simply, select a folder and press ALT + C in your…

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Update to the Gridcoin New User Report Generator – February 14, 2018

Update to the Gridcoin New User Report Generator – February 14, 2018

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Hi everyone, Today, I made an update to the Gridcoin New User Report Generator, which allows the software to be scheduled in order to generate the reports. Basically, what this means is that the GUI (Graphical User Interface) can be used to select the projects we want to include in the report and also generate the report, but also means that we can just use the terminal, pass the “-s” argument, and it will generate the report taking into account…

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Steemit.chat Post Poster v1.1 - 1
Steemit.Chat Post Poster v1.1 released!

Steemit.Chat Post Poster v1.1 released!

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Note: This tool is no longer updated nor maintained. Hi everyone, In this post, I’d like to talk about the newest release of my tool called Steemit.Chat Post Poster. V1.1 is an improvement release and also adds Spanish Language support. The Graphical User Interface has been tweaked a little as well. This tool is designed to send your Steem Posts to channels you specify into Steemit.Chat and uses the Rocket.Chat.Net API to interact with Steemit.Chat. To send a post, you can copy and…

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Open-Source Project: JavaScript Function Finder, written in JSP

Open-Source Project: JavaScript Function Finder, written in JSP

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Hi everyone, In this post, I’d like to present you to this project. JavaScript Function Finder is a project I made in my University years as part of the Advanced Programming course when I was studying Computer Science. We were assigned to make a function parser and each student was given a different programming language. Mine was JavaScript. We would then build the project using JavaServer Pages (JSP) using a JSP IDE. We mostly worked using NetBeans in the course….

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