Been a while since I wrote anything here but thats due to having relatively little thats worth discussing. Unless anyone in the games world is interesting in the topsy-turvy world of software development in investment banking?! [lol]
Whilst my employer is taking a royal beating in the stock market (in the 10 months I've worked there, its shed ~85% of its value) I'm on a training course learning our somewhat esoteric database language. Brainfuck suddenly seems like a quite intuitive and pleasant 'language' by comparison.
Whatdayathink: ?
t:([]time:`time$();sym:`symbol$();price:`float$();size:`int$())n:500tms:.z.t+1000*til nsyms:?[n;`GDNET`Gamasutra`Flipcode]ps:n?100.szs:n?1000insert[`t;(tms;syms;ps;szs)]f:{[sym;dt]select vwap from last update vwap:dv%tv from update tv:sums[size],dv:sums[price*size] from select price,size from t where date=dt,sym=sym}show f[`GDNET;.z.d](should you actually care, it just returns the VWAP of all randomly generated trades in the 'GDNET' stock today. Exciting, I know)
Despite being specialist (the inventor is a legend for telling one potential client they were too stupid to use his product and he wouldn't sell it to them) there is some fun in learning a different non-C/java/C#/C++-like language.
In more gamedev related news:
- I'm going to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Summit in March. Yay! [grin]
- I suspect I'll need to revise this thing called "DirectX" before attending. It feels like a long time since I used it now [sad]
- I installed the Windows 7 beta in a VM. Not really checked it out yet, but was snappy enough in a VM for a beta. The new taskbar is definitely going to mess with my head for a while though...
- Oddly enough, I appear to have 4 ways to access what appear to be the same W7 bits. The closed beta, my personal MSDN subscription, my corporate MSDN subscription and the public internet. I thought they weren't going crazy and revealing too much, too soon this time [oh]
- I'm still working on my "graphics in 2009" paper. Expect it sometime in 2010.
It could be worse.