January 12, 2005
Tuesday night at the gym baby. Oh yeaaaa! [smile]
So this guy I met online a few weeks ago showed up at the gym again tonight. He had emailed me earlier that he was working in his backfalls, so I had just the game for him to play: The Backdrop Game. The idea is simple: you have to jump backwards off…
So this guy I met online a few weeks ago showed up at the gym again tonight. He had emailed me earlier that he was working in his backfalls, so I had just the game for him to play: The Backdrop Game. The idea is simple: you have to jump backwards off…
January 11, 2005
So if you read my previous post, the saga continues after I get home from work at around 7:30 pm. My first order of business is to get online with Sony tech support and make sure I have to start from Disc 6 every time the damn recovery system burns me a bad CD. Turns out that I do. Wunderful. By th…
January 10, 2005
So the stork stopped by my house today and dropped off a little bundle of joy. Okay okay it was really the FedEx truck but... you know.
Yup, my new laptop is finally here. First order of business? Wipe it clean and reinstall my copy of Windows XP Pro to get all this factory crap off. The hitch? Seem…
Yup, my new laptop is finally here. First order of business? Wipe it clean and reinstall my copy of Windows XP Pro to get all this factory crap off. The hitch? Seem…
January 06, 2005
So yea, third entry of the day I know. But after posting my last entry, I noticed I still had a tab open to my order status page for my laptop. So just for kicks I hit the refresh button to see if maybe it had been at least processed and scheduled for production. Now, I last checked this page four …
January 06, 2005
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! BASTAAAARRRDSS!!"
So I checked online for the order status of my new laptop and it seems the 256MB memory sticks they need for my model (I'm having two sticks to make 512MB) is on back order with no project ship date as of yet. The projected ship date for the laptop is the 10th!…
So I checked online for the order status of my new laptop and it seems the 256MB memory sticks they need for my model (I'm having two sticks to make 512MB) is on back order with no project ship date as of yet. The projected ship date for the laptop is the 10th!…
January 06, 2005
This is mainly a brain dump for my future self, should I ever encounter this problem again that I'm having right now with one of my students. So read on if you're a teacher of some sort - otherwise you can probably skip this entry unless you like psychiatry. I don't, but looks like I'll have to app…
January 04, 2005
So here we go again [smile] If you missed the first Blast From The Past, be sure to check it out!
January 02, 2005
So happy new years to everyone and all.
I'm kinda excited about this year. I haven't had a really big year since 2001 (when I joined GI, joined GDNet, wrote for a book, restarted the NJ IGDA chapter, joined the IGDA, and some other stuff) but I think this one will see some more personal milestones, …
I'm kinda excited about this year. I haven't had a really big year since 2001 (when I joined GI, joined GDNet, wrote for a book, restarted the NJ IGDA chapter, joined the IGDA, and some other stuff) but I think this one will see some more personal milestones, …
December 30, 2004
I don't really know why I've never used Ebay before. Thinking back, I can't come up with any real good reason, except maybe it's because I've always had this thing against used stuff. I can't explain it really but buying a used item never really made sense to me. I don't even know when I came to my…
December 29, 2004
So it's the middle of the week, which means vacation is pretty much half over, so I figured I might as well post an update.
Nothing major lately. I've been working on Katana for about 2-4 hours a day since Monday and made some good progress - the listbox widget is almost debugged finally. It's been …
Nothing major lately. I've been working on Katana for about 2-4 hours a day since Monday and made some good progress - the listbox widget is almost debugged finally. It's been …
December 26, 2004
So I finally approached my dad today about buying my new laptop. I was hoping I would have enough money to just buy it, but a few minor traffic tickets will quickly drain your account :P Can I help it if I drive really really fast? Ah well. Anyways my original intent in asking my dad was so that I …
December 26, 2004
Well, Christmas is officially over, that is, if you consider the scope of Christmas to be that one single day on which Jesus Christ was born. But I consider that narrow-minded thinking these days. In the present age, Christmas isn't over until you've spent all your gift cards! [smile] And judging b…
December 23, 2004
Wednesday, December 22
Well, I was hoping to have posted up pics and movies of me sword fighting with my buddies, but I still haven't fixed my shinai and one of my friends had to work that night and my other friend hasn't gotten a new shinai... so it seems we're out of commission for a bit. Damn.
Any…
Well, I was hoping to have posted up pics and movies of me sword fighting with my buddies, but I still haven't fixed my shinai and one of my friends had to work that night and my other friend hasn't gotten a new shinai... so it seems we're out of commission for a bit. Damn.
Any…
December 19, 2004
Saturday, December 18th
So yea, things have been rather hectic lately with the onset of xmas (1 week!! whoo!!). Today I finished almost all my shopping. I'm getting a lot of gift cards this year, since I'm too lazy to look for individual gifts. Plus I just plain suck at finding things people like. B…
So yea, things have been rather hectic lately with the onset of xmas (1 week!! whoo!!). Today I finished almost all my shopping. I'm getting a lot of gift cards this year, since I'm too lazy to look for individual gifts. Plus I just plain suck at finding things people like. B…
December 13, 2004
Sunday, December 12th
Oh well, so much for getting the list box done :P Friday night my friend tells me that he has free tickets to Medieval Times, which is about an hour away from where we live. I told him I couldn't go cause I had already planned stuff, but later he admitted that the free tickets …
Oh well, so much for getting the list box done :P Friday night my friend tells me that he has free tickets to Medieval Times, which is about an hour away from where we live. I told him I couldn't go cause I had already planned stuff, but later he admitted that the free tickets …
December 11, 2004
Saturday, December 11th
There have been a couple of GDNet local gatherings in the past few weeks, and while the group I gathered with tonight did so under the banner of the IGDA rather than GDNet, it was still the same thing: a bunch of developers meeting up to relax and have a good time.
Me and five…
There have been a couple of GDNet local gatherings in the past few weeks, and while the group I gathered with tonight did so under the banner of the IGDA rather than GDNet, it was still the same thing: a bunch of developers meeting up to relax and have a good time.
Me and five…
December 10, 2004
Yea... so okay I haven't been doing much lately programming-wise. It's been a busy week, especially with xmas looming ever closer. It's just getting a little tough balancing the schedule out so I can do everything. Like tomorrow I have a trampoline meet to coach and then it's straight up to Palisad…
December 02, 2004
The GUI expansion continues!
Here I have a text input box set up. I've always had text that you can change, but I've never wrapped it up into something like this. Meaning the input text (standalone) only accepts input after the text itself is clicked, not a certain area (like a box). Obviously this …
Here I have a text input box set up. I've always had text that you can change, but I've never wrapped it up into something like this. Meaning the input text (standalone) only accepts input after the text itself is clicked, not a certain area (like a box). Obviously this …
December 01, 2004
So I finally created a cool game at the gym last night. I've always been kinda jealous of the fact that some of my other coach buddies have come up with cool games to play with the gym equipment. So I was just lying on a barrel, which is used to teach back handsprings, and I was just rocking side t…
November 28, 2004
Ta dum! I give you progress bars!! [smile]
Not bad, a widget a week eh? Sounds like a good pace to me. Hopefully I can make it two widgets a week tho. That would be nice since I still have 4 or 5 more to go.
Anyways on to the details. What you see here are actually two different kinds of progress bar…
November 22, 2004
Well, I finally finished up my GUI interface and my first widgets, the horizontal and vertical scrollbars. Yes!! And it works! YES!!
*does happy dance*
This is freakin awesome. Now that the GUI framework is in place, I have a set structure to follow in creating the other controls, which makes it easi…
November 19, 2004
Well, so much for debugging and testing on Sunday eh? [smile]. I ended up spending the day at a gymnastics meet instead. Then Monday I was shopping all day for a bookshelf for my room and then spent the night catching up on email and forums and doing the GDNet newsletter. Then Tuesday I bought and …
November 14, 2004
Saturday, November 13th
So today my local IGDA chapter held a sort of Breaking Into the Industry event thingy at a local college. It was pretty cool. I got to sit on a panel with some of the other experienced industry vets in the chapter and answer questions from the audience. We had a pretty good t…
So today my local IGDA chapter held a sort of Breaking Into the Industry event thingy at a local college. It was pretty cool. I got to sit on a panel with some of the other experienced industry vets in the chapter and answer questions from the audience. We had a pretty good t…
November 10, 2004
Hullo. Yea I haven't been updating regularily the past few days. The simple reason is that there's not much to update on. This is, after all, a game development journal. And while I will admit to having a rather interesting personal life with many tales to tell daily, I don't want this to become a …
November 07, 2004
Got some more work on my GUI done last night. I implemented the base widget class, and started to implement the scroll bar widget. I got like a quarter done with that when I realized I shouldn't be trying to combine both horizontal and vertical bars into one class, since they move differently and a…
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