I love doing fun and different things with computers! Over the past few years that's shifted to where I do them mostly with my phone because it's handy and with me all the time. And I've reached a milestone that I don't know if it's good or bad or not.
The milestone is: I know how to do something on my phone, but I'm not sure how to do it on my computer. This something is to have a folder of recipe images and pick one of the recipes randomly and have it emailed to me on a specific day of the week or month.
When I went back to college, after certifying as a controller, I majored in computer information systems. In my junior and senior time, in my 11 year college career, I did a lot of simple programming. I really enjoyed it.
At work, I demonstrated abilities to automate things and used those abilities to get different positions, working in an office or automating things that we did or used every day. Very custom solutions for problems that we needed solved.
It was fun, but it was always on a computer and it was almost always using some form of basic programming language. A lot of Windows batch files and scripts, but mostly Visual Basic and then Basic and other things.
One of my favorites after I had been programming for a while was Auto-It. It's a scripting system that allowed me to use my basic programming skills and allowed me to actually create Windows apps just with scripting.
I would compile them and then I had a fully executable little app. It was hard because a lot of questionable things were done with Auto-It by people out there on the internet, but I never did any of that stuff.
But now I want a random recipe from a folder and I'm finding that I reach for my phone to do it instead of a computer keyboard. Because of that, the puzzle shifts. I have to find a way to synchronize the folder to my phone or put them all out on the internet and then pick randomly from there and just send a link so that you can pop it open or something like that.
I just think it's funny that my first thought was, how do I do this on my phone?
Progress...
+++
