I think I've been running into the over-engineering problem again. Today, I spent my allotted hour of coding time just changing the internal representation of my data just to support a feature that I may not even implement in the future. (It's on the wish list, but it's low on the wish list.) Sure,…

Well, I tried out the last build of dodecahellspawn on my new computer, and for lack of a better term, it looks like crap. It seems to be a problem with texture compression and the way I'm faking the lighting. I'm not quite sure how to deal with it at the moment; I used the faked lighting to keep t…

Non-development news: picked up a copy of DOA Ultimate. It's probably the best example I've seen of interactive environments in fighting games, and one of the best in video games in general. The DOA 2 disc plays almost exactly like DOA 3, except with about 1000% more panty shots.

Anyways, the person…

Spent more time playing with a throw away side project today than I intended to. I had forgotten how much C#'s COM interop annoys me.

Back on the actual planned project arena, I spent more time than I intended trying to come up with a mark up scheme for the personal wiki project. At this point I thi…

I found someone else's Berkeley DB wrapper online: bdbsharp. The programmer took a fairly different approach from what I was thinking of doing. Instead of compiling Berkeley DB in Managed C++ and working in a single project, he first compiled a thin C wrapper dll around the Berkeley DB project to …

I just noticed that the draft version of boost 1.32.0 has been released on the boost website. I'm torn between waiting for the final version and downloading the draft now. I wonder how much of my code will break this time.

While staying up entirely too long to see how the elections turned out, I was playing around with Berkeley DB and I remember now why I didn't get too far the last time I wanted to modify it for .NET consumption: it's not exactly Unicode clean. The Berkeley DB XML library is a little better, but I'm…

Well, a new project at work looks likes it's going to involve some hefty database work so I'm going to hold off on doing anything involving SQL or ODBC for my private projects.

Which means it's a perfect time to try one of the things I've been meaning to do forever, but never got around to: porting …

One of my projects is the personal wiki program. Now, I'm just thinking "out loud" here, stream of consciousness style since I was a bum and haven't worked this out in my design yet. So I was thinking about storage mechanisms.

From what I've seen of other wiki-like software there's two common choice…

So, I just came back from AnimeUSA, an anime convention held about fifteen miles outside of Washington DC.

Good thing: saw a new anime in one of the screening rooms that I'll definately pick up when it's released in R1: Maria-sama ga Miteru.

Bad thing: the people who signed up to do game industry pan…