Welcome to MikroSight

This site is my little playground on the WWW - this site is now the repository of most things I find (or found) interesting at one time or another - written here for my recall later when I get old, gray and forgetful.

I am reworking this whole site from a tabled layout to CSS, so some things are still not working exactly the way I want them to. And there are still some links that have not been activated, but it gets better every day.

I have tried to adhere to the latest standards for XHTML and CSS while using Dreamweaver 8 to do this re-design. You can see screen shots of previous incarnations here. If you experience any problems with this, please contact me.

JavaScript

I'm currently working on a LAMP application that is a rewrite of something I wrote in Pascal back in the late 80s. I'm using PHP and mySQL on the server, and unobtrusive javascript for the client side. Well, unobtrusive as I can get - I have found a couple of places where I have not been able to keep the PHP and JavaScript separated. With all that said, I am firm believer in the separation of CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, as well as Church and State, terrorists and nuclear bombs, Client and Server.

I have added a new section to the site where I share some of the JavaScript code and concepts - much of it gleaned from the real gurus in this area. You can see some of my work (i.e. collection of stolen code that I have modified to suit my needs) on my new JavaScript Validation & User Interface Improvement page.

Card Counters

Yeah, we got 'em. Back about 6 years ago, I wrote a little program to emulate what I used to do while playing Spades on-line - that being to track the cards already played with a pencil and paper. But I got tired of having all those scraps of paper lying around - tired of finding a piece of paper big enough to write on - and tired of finding my pencil - so I wrote my first card counter program MCC (Mikro's Card Counter).

One day I got an e-mail from a guy asking if I had a Pinochle counter. I had heard of Pinochle, but had never attempted to play it, but with a little help from him to figure out what cards are used in Pinochle, then add in the differences of Single Deck and Double Deck Pinochle - and now we have two more counter programs available.

Recently, another contact asked for a double deck counter for use with Canasta, so I modified the program to handle that as well. You can read more about my card counters, see some screen shots, and find out how to buy them on my Card Counters page.