[a continuation of Damnit. 2 posts down.]

So apparently I didn't have to justify myself at the interview. I didn't even have an interview. Based on the strength of the programming test alone I got this offer: 'come on for a month at and if it works out, we'll negotiate then. If not, eh, not.'

Now, t…

Guess I was a little mistaken thinking (in my first post) that I might not post too often...

~10pm CST:
- Added an AsciiTree method to the base renderable.

It's a little recursive function to walk the render tree and use C# reflection to dump out the current state of the tree; for now merely by classn…

So I applied for a C# programming job today, and [for once] actually got through to a hiring manager.

Now, I don't have any formal programming experience. Not none... I mean I took pascal in high school, a matlab course in college, and CS101 (C++) at the local community college, ... and I did a lit…

Huzzah! Taxes are complete. I owe various governmental agencies about $7500 (yes, despite not working for 8 months last year). [bawling]

At least it's less than I thought it would be...

~10pm CST
- Added basic exception handling to cmdset. It now captures and logs exceptions thrown by invoked commands.
- Added a 'Unknown command' fallthrough for the console cmdset.
- Fixed up the Cursor code.

It used to do a s/ /_/ (since spaces aren't registered by a MeasureString, which the cursor …

It's great, this little hole I've dug.

I end up applying for about 5 different sorts of jobs out here:

Software Engineer: Nope, sorry. No CS degree, no formal experience. Doing hobbyist stuff for 6 years is largely irrelevant.
QA Engineer: Oh, good. 3 years experience. What? Didn't use WinRunner? Gues…

~3:30 am CST
- Hacked a little at the threaded texture loader. Images loaded before the threaded pre-loading completes will now return a plain white texture, which is replaced when the loading thread returns. The old behavior was to try and load the texture blockingly, which caused it to be accessed…

Back is still nice and tight, but at least I can walk. In other news, I did 2 of my 3 tax returns today.

Also, a recent post on the importance of experience.

Somehow I managed to pull a muscle in my back (I think) and have enjoyed sharp pains while doing anything as strenuous as walking for the past 6 hours or so. Not good times.

~12:00 CST
- Added code for allowing the client to connect via TCP rather than via my thread socket.
- Added System.Net.IPAddress as a cmdset type.
- Added 'connect' as a console cmd.


In other news, I believe my common response to "I wanna make teh moorpg!" is going to be "Have you taken economics?"...…