About
This is the official programming website for the work of Daniel J Brieck Jr.
I am a graduate of Penn State Harrisburg with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a goal of starting a career in software development.
This site is the direct results of what started initially during the Summer of 2007. I decided back then to learn some AppleScript and AppleScript Studio to create my first useful Macintosh GUI Application.
The problem I had at hand was connecting to my television recording PC from my Macintosh. Using the Network Browser or connecting using an IP address to a SMB system was just too time consuming and frustrating. So I started looking for some solutions one was AppleScript. I took a good look at a few books on AppleScript, most informative was AppleScript: The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg. I came across the open location command and just put together a little executable AppleScript using that command. And tried it and boom the drive I wanted to connect to just connected in 5 seconds or less, keep in mind the Network Browser I was relying on before was blank still. So I wanted to automate the creation of the little executable AppleScript applications that would connect to networked disks of my choice. I was successful in doing that task and the end result is the Network Drive Launcher Application.
While over the past couple of years I may have written many terminal based programs in C++ as part of tutorials, this is the first program that some one might actually want to use in real world situation. I was just trying this program for my own use but after listening to some Podcasts namely The Mac Observers Mac Geek Gab , I realized that others could use this Network Drive Launcher program, so I went on to build it and distribute it.
After building Network Drive Launcher and this website I have a near genuine first experience of the work it takes to get even a simple product out, and even after all the work and trouble it has been getting this project working I have learned that I still have a lot to learn.