Overview of my home page

Status: In progress.

My home page was started sometime around March 11, 1995 and was first used to gather information about library home pages and what items might be of interest to the Government Documents/Microtext unit at the library where I work. About the beginning of summer 1995, I received permission from Real Time Internet Services to move the files to their server, and that's where the files are now. I prepare the files on DOS and Windows computers and send the files to my Real Time account.

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WWW Goal

The goal statement is based on the mission statement of a local sea food restaurant. To me it says that I want this information to be of high quality, and that I want to make any qualitative advances available to others, and that I want the project to be for benefit.

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Overview

This present information is the overview of my home page files.

About the design of the home page

Here are some comments about why my home page is arranged in a certain way and what some of the elements of the home page mean, particularly the icons.

Starting a home page at Texas A&M

The Texas A&M home page has information for starting personal home pages within general campus accounts.

Training

If anyone would like to hire me as a computer associate, here's some contact information, and a - hopefully underrated - list of programming languages, programs, and network projects that I have some knowledge of.

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Resources

Here are some resources such as work that other sites have done on-line that might be useful for the information they provide or for showing what kinds of information may be made available and what methods of presentation work well.

Searching

If you want to find something on the WWW and don't know where it is or if it exists, searching is a good way to find out! In the summer of 1995, I timed some searches and recorded the total items found from the search.

List of Information Categories

The listing is for WWW sites related to over twenty categories of information that are either related to my job, research or interest, or that I'm either keeping for consideration or for the purpose of making them easier for others to find.

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Here are some network resources and a few local files about preparing information for the WWW.

Using the library

While studying some information about object-oriented programming and design, I realized that one term often used in that study begins with the initials of the library where I work, Sterling C. Evans Library. The word is "scenario" and in object-oriented design it is a "use case" or "case of use" of a system - one process though which a particular system would be used. That inspired me to begin working on some "use cases" or scenarios for using the library.

Delphi

Delphi is Borland's Visual programming environment and language. It is similar to Visual Basic; however the programs created with Delphi are true compiled programs. The computer language is Pascal (Object Pascal).

Computer programming information

Here is a list of some computer resources that I've found to be useful.

Test files

These items are not in a finished state yet; however, some of them might be useful to someone. There's an HTML Windows help file and some information about how to present subject information in a way other than just a subject list.

Table of Contents

I'm working on a program that will prepare an itemized table of contents for the local files of my home page. Here's the resulting table of contents from some time ago.

Network News

When I learn something about the network or that might be of interest to the on-line community, sometimes I mention it on the "network news".

Book and Video Reviews and Subject Reports

Here are some reviews of videotapes of Dr. W. Edwards Deming speaking, reviews of other videotapes, and some book reviews and other information.

Information about Java

Here are some references to Java, Sun's programming language that can be used through Netscape.

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The Miracle keyboard

So far, I haven't learned to play the keyboard expertly, so I haven't had much to say! Maybe some day there will be some midi songs on-line here.

Free life program

A mathematician named John Conway thought of a game that could be played on a grid with playing pieces. Each cycle the items on the grid are either kept or removed depending on how many items are immediately around them. Here is a computer version of the game where the computer randomly assigns the starting items and then runs the sequence. The program is interesting to watch, and can serve as a screen saver, though it's not actually a screen saver program.

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