Work has been harrowing as of late. Thankfully it should ease up a little so I can focus on learning and coding.

In happier news, I got around to getting Vista (read below for reasoning). Alas, the 64bit version doesn't come in the box. I understand not wanting rank morons installing it over their w…

I use win2k here at home. Until my last computer's untimely hard drive demise in July-ish, I'd been running the same install (migrated from one machine to the next) since late 1999 (beta 2). Winxp offered nothing for me to upgrade so I didn't. Win2k though is now long in the tooth, so I'm looking t…

Not much going on at the home front. A few games here and there, enjoying social opportunities, and generally wallowing in my laziness. Work too has been a little quiet.

I took that opportunity to practice a bit with WinForms. There's an in-house java app we use as a SQL query frontend which I thoug…

This might be a little obvious to some who have used .NET or more exotic languages more than I, but I'd like to share anyways...

As part of Moe I had a setup where delegates were chained. A unit would have say... a "died" event. The tile would have a "unit died" event for any unit which died in that…

As near as I can tell, dotGNU won't actually compile generics (though the assembler/disassembler/runtime have them based on my searches). If I didn't know as much as I do about programming, the fact that the runtime supports something unable to be made by the compiler would likely strike me as amus…

Mono fails to compile on the work machine (SolSparc 10, gcc-4.1.1 or 2.9.5). Or rather it does compile, but the runtime segfaults trying to compile the compiler. Either way... broken. According to my internet search it appears to be a bug with gcc-4.1.1 on certain arch's. 2.9.5 is far too old to ge…

I'm now a little over three months at my dev job. Everything seems to be going well. I've got a fair handle on the DB layout now, and am getting better with the business terminology. We've got some new people in so I expect a bit of my busy newbie work will be tossed over to them leaving me free fo…

linky

Since I don't frequent the Lounge, I didn't hear about this little gem until recently. If you haven't, you should (it's free).

Anyways, that combined with FFXII, combined with social activities has kept me from moe (or so I keep telling myself). But it gives me nice gems like tonight.

I started…

Ah, I have not been working on MoE (or any personal project for that matter) for almost 3 full months. Work goes well, home life is settled down, social life is a frenzy. I'd like to get coding again, but new work is likely to show soon and my social life is likely to remain frenzied for some time.…

Cooking is much more enjoyable when you're actually cooking, and not just making something. I present to you my first creation (pretty tastey too):

1 large tablespoon butter (or substitute)
salt
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon of (the bottle on the left)

medium heat, coat pan with butter;
once melted:
sprinkle in…