September 13, 2004
This weekend I've been thinking about my projects and what I need to do them. Since my mid-time target is a turn based strategy game, I've wondered how I could implement it. And so I thought of the TBS Engine I wanted to do since some years. The target is to change completely the game by simply rep…
September 08, 2004
I cannot say that I had a good night. Not really. My son (3 months old) has decided not to sleep and to cry instead. So, since my wife starts working again today, I decided to keep him with me when working on my project. After all, it took me 45 minutes to bring him to sleep. So I could work until …
September 07, 2004
Dr Electron Post Mortem
In Dr. Electron you have to create molecules by putting atoms with 1 to 4 electrons onto the playfield. You have to connect the atoms by aligning the electrons so that they face each other. This will create an link between the two atoms. Once all atoms are linked and no elect…
In Dr. Electron you have to create molecules by putting atoms with 1 to 4 electrons onto the playfield. You have to connect the atoms by aligning the electrons so that they face each other. This will create an link between the two atoms. Once all atoms are linked and no elect…
September 06, 2004
Dr
Electron Post Mortem
In Dr. Electron you have to create molecules by putting atoms with 1 to 4 electrons onto the playfield. You have to connect the atoms by aligning the electrons so that they face each other. This will create an link between the two atoms. Once all atoms are linked and no electr…
Electron Post Mortem
In Dr. Electron you have to create molecules by putting atoms with 1 to 4 electrons onto the playfield. You have to connect the atoms by aligning the electrons so that they face each other. This will create an link between the two atoms. Once all atoms are linked and no electr…
September 06, 2004
It's monday again and a new labour week has begun. ARGH ! In 15 minutes we'll hold our weekly meeting and up to now my tasks for this week will be : synchronize development and release source code enviroment, do some checks about active data transfer for FTP, clean up the NTP protocol implementatio…
September 03, 2004
Argh... no journal yesterday ! To be honest, I didn't have any time. I got up at 5:30 in the morning because I had to be at my job early. I've found a memory leak during my car drive back home in my ftp class (I think alot while I drive). Had to fix that before I got to the client where I had to in…
September 01, 2004
Well... yesterday I finally finished to compile all executables that make use of the updater. Was quite a trouble since I had all version infos to change, include it into CVS and make a check, if they still work...
On a side note : I hate CVS. This thing is just awful. Or is it the way it is used in…
On a side note : I hate CVS. This thing is just awful. Or is it the way it is used in…
August 31, 2004
I consider some days just being useless. You just can't get done anything interesting, you spent doing things any beta tester could do and you wonder if it is really worth the trouble :
I currently have to install an FTP server onto a clients machine. The root folder for the server does already exis…
I currently have to install an FTP server onto a clients machine. The root folder for the server does already exis…
August 30, 2004
Well... here I'm back again. I've spent my long weekend (thursday eveining to sunday afternoon) at the belgian coast. It was quite fun except friday when it rained all the day; we bought a Cluedo game and spent all evening playing which was really nice. Did that again on saturday.
On sunday I had a …
On sunday I had a …
August 26, 2004
The game has been published. It's called "Dr. Electron". You can download a version of the demo at Black Mouse Entertainment. An english version of the pages is in the works.
Have fun !
Have fun !
August 26, 2004
Ok... yesterday I just had no time to write a journal entry. I had some major bad time with the c# NTP code I found on the net. I wondered why the time entries set into the transmission time field was sooo much different from the entries I found when receiving the response from the time server. Aft…
August 24, 2004
Soooo... I'm back from my long week-end at the belgian coast. Everything was great except that I was a bit nervous and my daughter didn't listen to what we said... Yesterday, just before I had to get the train back home, she got ill... Perhaps she just ate too much candies.
I had a long phone call y…
I had a long phone call y…
August 20, 2004
So, I called them and they said it wasn't what I expected it to be. So I jumped into my car and drove over to their place (~70km).
It turned out to be that a folder, which was necessary, hasn't been set in their config files. And that was one of their files they wouldn't send to me (uuuuh... keeeeee…
It turned out to be that a folder, which was necessary, hasn't been set in their config files. And that was one of their files they wouldn't send to me (uuuuh... keeeeee…
August 20, 2004
Oh well... I had my chat with my colleagues yesterday and it turned out that they "reconsidered the question and decided to push it back until some client would ask for it.". Mainly this means that my little 4 page paper has shown them that it was more work than they thought. So, we won't do the ch…
August 19, 2004
Yesterday, I spent some time doing research for the updater thingy. This stuff starts to seriously bother me because I have found x different solutions to our problem and I'm almost sure that they won't accept any of them. Finished the research at 12 o'clock and wrote a 4 page doc about what I've f…
August 18, 2004
Gosh... already Wednesday...
Yesterday I did a final clean up on "THE GAME", as I'll call it until it has been published. Had a bug fix to do where the game exited when the last level has been played... doh... stupid thing... I also included a small snippet of code that checks the consistency of som…
Yesterday I did a final clean up on "THE GAME", as I'll call it until it has been published. Had a bug fix to do where the game exited when the last level has been played... doh... stupid thing... I also included a small snippet of code that checks the consistency of som…
August 17, 2004
Well... yesterday was quite a hard day. I have changed the ftp access code for the companies update service and had to test 4 applications against 3 different ftp servers (java ftp implementation, unix/linux ftp and windows ftp). Fixed some bugs and had some fun when 18 PDAs connected in the same t…
August 16, 2004
Ok, monday, first day of work at the company.
Usually a monday looks like this :
8:00 Arrival, emails, website visiting
9:00 Meeting
10:00 Start working, bitching around with beta testers
12:00 Get something to eat, surf on the net.
12:30 Restart working
16:30 Go home
While working I still surf on the we…
Usually a monday looks like this :
8:00 Arrival, emails, website visiting
9:00 Meeting
10:00 Start working, bitching around with beta testers
12:00 Get something to eat, surf on the net.
12:30 Restart working
16:30 Go home
While working I still surf on the we…
August 15, 2004
Yesterday I told you that I would tell you which projects are in my mind, so here we go. There are 2 major projects I am working on :
a) My engine called "Alternative Realities" which has gone through several iterations since '99.
There's currently a game in beta so I have to tag the engine in my sou…
a) My engine called "Alternative Realities" which has gone through several iterations since '99.
There's currently a game in beta so I have to tag the engine in my sou…
August 14, 2004
First I would like Johnhatten for his comment to my first journal entry. I think he's right when he says one must first write for himself and then for the others (well, that's how I understood his writing). I'm the kind of person who likes to discuss and share his ideas. So, I think this is what I'…
August 13, 2004
Hmmm... should I or should I not ? That's the question...
It's hard to decide wether yes or no I'll start a dev journal. Why ? Because it's more like a blog than anything else. Who will read it anyway ?
Some years ago I was working on a 3D Engine called "Alternative Realities". I had my own website a…
It's hard to decide wether yes or no I'll start a dev journal. Why ? Because it's more like a blog than anything else. Who will read it anyway ?
Some years ago I was working on a 3D Engine called "Alternative Realities". I had my own website a…
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