Got in a good bit of coding tonight. RunRev coding that is. Objective-C is still the, ahem, objective… but I think there is still along future in desktop applications and using RunRev to make them allows me to deploy to multiple platforms. The big goal this time: object-oriented and efficient code. None of the mostly [...]
I spent some time in my old game code tonight, hunting down bugs in established code rather than learning how to make bugs of a whole new variety. It was a bit disheartening. At the core, I still believe in my game. I think it is a lot of fun to play and will definitely [...]
Today’s big accomplishment (other than, once again, posting on the next day due to staying up late) was gardening. We now have a nice little garden in the back, plus a bunch of potted herbs. Assuming that all goes well we will have masses of tomatoes, a goodly supply of watermelons, all the herbs we [...]
The last two months I have been rather distracted by writing. The problem is that this type of writing has little appreciable output. See, I’ve been working out the code for a simple game, and it takes a load of code to accomplish even simple things. I should remember this, but my most intense days [...]
then again, i think that my skills are more along the lines of code are more at the level of code snail or code lizard, but anyway… stayed up v-late last night coding for one of my projects. it took so long because almost every time i tried to implement a new subroutine that shared [...]
It’s really been far to long since I posted. I mean, really posted. There have been a few little updates here and there, mostly in the form of books read, but I have been silent for far too long. That sounded like the opening of a manifesto. Perhaps a bit too dramatic for a simple [...]
This song popped up on random play and made my day about 7% better. Few things are as amusing as a good Jonathan Coulton song, if only because he is a nerd like the rest of us (ok, except that he can actually play an instrument). Something about a song about Ikea appeals to me. [...]
So I just ordered a new domain (not giving away the name yet) and am putting together some ideas for podcasting and publishing. (This all relates to one of my new-year’s resolutions, see a post to come out some time this weekend). Now I need to begin getting my little quirky, ugly, maladroit, skilled, confused, [...]
The wife and I went for a long walk today. Long by city standards at least. About half way through I felt a soft vibration in my pocket and a faint “ding! ding!” reached my ears, signaling a newly arrived text message. With it being winter break I’ve been texting friends a lot and am [...]
It strikes me that my numbering on previous posts was horribly mangled. I will have to work on that. The difficulties of posting webcomics are many. Especially true when you have very little artistic skill. So yes, production has slowed and the style will likely remain inconsistent for a while. But I do have stories [...]
Al always I am splitting my attention in too many directions. I’ve just started a new project that may, or may not, prove to be useful. This time I am venturing into the world of textbooks and literary guides. There is a large market out there of homeschoolers seeking SOL-aligned units and teachers seeking pre-designed [...]