Mistake Number Three

Posted - 10/24/2005 12:17:09 AM

Never write a manifesto spelling out exactly what you want. Especially if what you want involves software. You end up writing it yourself. If you take a look at the Engine Manifesto that I wrote about this time last year, updated once or twice, and cleaned up for the public, you will notice that I don't ask for much. I've been working on this for the past 6 months, but for once, I'm actually getting something done to the point that its useful. Once I have some of my copyright searches clear, I guess I'll release a little alpha and have a name vote/contest. That is, after I get the win32 ports (VC and mingw) working completely again.

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Mistake Number Two

Posted - 10/16/2005 12:43:17 PM

I'm one of those people who just gets facinated with ideas; especially when they're stated well and put into some sort of context. As such, the content of Nerd TV is usually especially interesting to me. I thought it would be a good idea to watch the latest episode whilst I wrote up some XML DTDs for the data files associated with my engine (more on that another time, like when I post the first non-crash-prone version in the near future). Suprise, I was wrong! I got no absolutely no work done... ...at least I'm inspired enough by the interviewee's personal achievements in the field of software to continue making progress.

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Mistake Number One

Posted - 10/14/2005 11:07:53 PM

Writing a single blog/journal/whathaveyou and participating in the community around it takes a lot of my precious time. So much so, I occasionally don't update it for months, thus shaming me into spending 90 minutes composing a really good update. Welcome, hapless journal readers, to my second blog/journal/whatever! I hope to chronicle what goes wrong when I try things- say for instance, doing all of my calls to SDL in a thread outside of my program's real main loop (Mistake Zero for the purposes of this journal?). Remember- success is boring, and teaches us little.

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