My dog, Calvin, and...my battery-powered backup dog, Elea.

And, second, my "portfolio stuff":

This page (Main) was written the "old fashioned" way, with a text editor, nothing too fancy--just to show that I *can* write straight HTML code. The rest of my pages were written with DreamWeaver, much more quickly, with more stuff in them... Take a look at SillyStuff--like the name says, it's just silly stuff, there for no other purpose than to show off techniques.

I've added a bit of JavaScript to my site. If you haven't been there already, take a look at the Index page. The buttons are rollover images that I set up myself, and if you play with the "index" button a bit, you'll be taken on an entertaining little journey... Also, I've set up a little survey that tells you how compatible your food choices are with mine.

[And, for the record, my free trial of DreamWeaver ran out, so I did all of the JavaScript and new coding for those pages by hand... (Sigh.)]

Next is a little program that I wrote in Java 2/Swing.

This is an application written for people who brew beer--either at home or in the industry. (My roommate is a brewer.) Generally, they will take a reading once a day of the density of the beer--read in either specific gravity or degrees Plato. Then, they need to be able to convert that value from one unit to the other, keep track of the values over a course of approximately two weeks, and plot a graph of density vs time. As the curve levels out, they know that the beer is "done".

So, this program will take values along with the corresponding dates/times, convert those values from one unit to the other, display the data, save and load files as the brewer adds data day by day for two weeks (or more), allow editing of the individual lines when an error is noticed, and display a graph of density(specific gravity) vs time.

Be forgiving--this is my first program, and my first experience with code since I took an "Intro to Basic" course when I was 12. (And I'm *not* telling you how old I am now!) It's currently being used in a "Beta version" without any errors, and I'm in the process of adding a couple of features and cleaning up the code a bit. I should have that done by the end of next week, at which time I'll turn it into an applet and put it out into the world as freeware. So, stay tuned for more developments!

Look at SpecificGravityProgram.java. (This is just the source code--you'll need to compile it to run from this file.)

Download SpecificGravityProgram.exe. (This is a self-extracting file that contains the .java and the .class files. Note: This is not an applet, so you'll still need to run it through a Java interpreter.)

This page last updated 03/04/01