I’m working really hard trying to get this Java programming down. I spent about 3 or 4 hours last night at it as well. i was working on trying to get looping down. Looping in programming is just about the same as everyday life. It will continue with the same action until you or something else stops it, normally a condition is meet and the program moves on.

So after spending some time with FOR, WHILE, and DO WHILE loops, I moved in to BREAKS and CONTINUES. This got a little tricky. I was able to pick it up once the understanding of the why that they work registered in my head. Java has something different about breaking out of looks though. For the first time I used labels. That is right. You can label your loops as well. This might help with less commenting, but it is still a good idea to comment out the code, which I don’t do right now because I’m learning my my code is no more than about 50 lines, and not crazy.

Now on to Arrays. Though out all of the tid-bits of programming that I have done, I have always gotten to arrays and froze. I have never been able to move past them. My brother, helped me out a lot. Taking about an hour or 2 to explain how they work. Last night I was able to put that knowledge to good use. Putting things into an array, changing them, and getting the values our of an array were easy. even stating that the array was full of strings or integers was a snap.

I’m sure that I have a long way to go before I can call myself a programmer. I feel that I’m on a fast track though now that I have a major road block out of my way. Stupid Arrays.

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The greats thing about watches is that they are easy to carry around with you. Unlike a cell phone, for now at least, they fit around your wrist. You also will not look like Batman without the cape and utility belt, but more like Bruce Wayne.

So it is be start of a new year. With every new year there are new begenings. Some of you may be looking for insurance quotes while others are trying to loose weight. For the later, good luck.

The insurance game is a game that is a pain in the butt to play. you have to call one place, and then call another. Then by the end of the day you have to weight out weather or not one company is worth the extra $25 every six months. Is it a good company or a not so good one.

I wish you all the best of luck searching out these things this year. Saving money is going to be a major factor for everyone.

As stated on Twitter I was hoping that the gaming would end early tonight so that I would be able to get some program learning done tonight. Well, it has. I thought that I would drop a quit note here and talk about random things.

I just realized that this is the first weekend that I do not think that I have had a headache. I normally have them all weekend long. I do my best to relax but no matter what I do they seem to happen. I am not sure if they are caused from stress or not. I do know that I have been more relaxed at work even with all of the shit that is going on there. It really is a bit scary.

Speaking of work, I really need to break away from this post and get some of it done. I have to learn WHILE, FOR, and FOREACH loops tonight if at all possible. Pushing myself to learn Java has been fun. A lot of it is review, for now at least, from other ones that I have attempted to learn in the past. The Android platform is what is driving this learning, not just because I want to, but because I want more for the Android platform. I want things that I do not want to wait for other to create. So, it is up to me to create them.

Tomorrow is Monday, and it is back to the grindstone. For now this is my free time and I get to do and learn what I wish too. I’m getting off of here so that I can get things done. Have a good night everyone and I will post more tomorrow.

Let me first of all thank everyone that stopped by last year and commented on my blog. It is very nice to know that there are some people out there that read this thing, and some seem to give a shit about what I write even if it is just a little bit. You cared enough to make a comment, it says something.

I know that I was off and on last year. I will try to do less off and on again posting. This get busy and life pulls you away from things at times. Other times I have really just not had much to say. I think that this year I will attempt to do a daily reflection of things that I have learned from the day. I know that people don’t normally learn something everyday, but I really feel that if you do not at least learn something that day, then maybe you didn’t live enough of a day. So that is the goal this year.

As for the rest of the post, well you will just have to continue to deal with my daily, weekly and monthly crap. I will still continue to post adds on the site. I feel that it helps me achieve some of the goals that I have. Were all of my “day job” money goes to paying bills, the paid ads do help with buying a new domain, hosting cost, and books that I want to read or learn from. So unless people would like to just donate, which I don’t think would be a lot of people, it is just easier for me to do ad post. I will also try to keep these ad post from hitting my twitter if you just want to follow me there.

There is also my blog 19 Inches Wide that I will continue to post on. This will not be everyday, just because there are other great news cast out there, blogging, podcast, and others that give such great reviews about products. 19 Inches Wide will continue to be a place where I will post some scripts, and maybe even some java as I am learning it. That you Porkchop for the teaching of programming.

I also have other great ideas that I need to get to working on as well. I keeping these hid for now. Not because I do not want to commit to them, but I just do not want them out in the open. People stealing ideas because they might be able to work faster on them than I can. Not a good thing.

Welcome to 2009 everyone. In 19 days we will have the first black president get sworn in to office. This is really a landmark year for the US. Let us all hope that 2009 brings more than 2008.