tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38527172011-11-06T15:02:14.248-06:00Programming-In-The-OneBy day a mild-mannered software engineer - by night a caffeine fueled coding machine. This includes my log of development activities and observations regarding PC Eylau.
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<a href="http://grognardsims.com/v/prod01.html"><img src="http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww112/billn6/GSI_BGG_banner.jpg" border="0" alt="GSI's PIC-Guam Game"></a>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.comBlogger2131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-41732227308996854042011-11-06T14:36:00.004-06:002011-11-06T15:02:14.279-06:00Game Development Status 11/6/11I am continuing to work on the prototype for the AI and UI for PC PIC-Guam. This weekend I wrote the evaluation function for the Fire Combat AI, hooked the AI up to the game system, and got the Japanese to conduct a Defensive Fire. I'm filling in around the edges now. The UI is not displaying color overlays to indicate the target hexes of the AI's fire combats. Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-28606699269515976122011-10-09T09:43:00.002-05:002011-10-09T10:16:23.255-05:00Game Developer Status 10/9/11I've done about 8 hours in the last few weeks. Not as much as I wanted, but not too bad. I implemented a fire combat AI prototype based on brute force as I mentioned in my previous post. I took all the shortcuts I could, primarily basing it on LINQ. This worked, but was very slow. For three firing units and 7 potential target units, the code produced 392 fire Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-8571095794759455142011-08-28T13:26:00.003-05:002011-08-28T13:51:49.030-05:00Game Development Status 8/28/11
Doing some work on the prototype for PIC-Guam today. I did an hour yesterday; trying to build some momentum. I am implementing a prototype AI.
Today I had to refactor some code pertaining to movement footprint generation in order to reuse it in the AI.
My first approach to this AI is brute force. I am traversing the phasing unit list, generating all Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-87102771853494242011-08-12T13:06:00.001-05:002011-08-12T13:08:09.216-05:00Welcome to the Next Level
I got promoted to Supervisor, Software Engineering this week.
Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-73663277517890796452011-07-09T04:37:00.003-05:002011-07-09T04:46:33.369-05:00UpdateIt's been almost a year without blogging. Let me sum up.I changed jobs from Senior Developer to Architect and have been holding down a Development Supervisor's position since February. I participated in a due diligence for an acquisition. I performed technical reviews on two chapters of an upcoming MS Press title. I scrubbed the rules and playtested several titles for Grognard Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-55603747159087623322010-07-17T22:07:00.002-05:002010-07-17T22:09:52.900-05:00All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...As Batman said, man does not live by crimefighting alone. I'm throwing some time at Battle Dawn these days.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-91064012746540863762010-07-10T09:51:00.006-05:002010-07-10T10:41:05.280-05:00PIC-Saipan/Tinian Game Review Part IChris sent me a review copy of Pacific Islands Campaign - Saipan/Tinian at the end of April. I finally found some time to review it this week. (After the release date...sorry, Chris!)The maps are beautifully executed and easy to read. The counters are good: the die cuts are crisp and well registered, and the counters punch easily with no separation. All theBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-85158028561034660212010-06-15T20:37:00.003-05:002010-06-15T20:52:57.545-05:00Ready, Fire, Aim (Oops)I'm working on the fire combat model for the PIC-Guam prototype. I added a FireCombat class to contain the information about the combat. I added a Turn class with lists of FireCombats for the US and Japanese fire phases, and added a list of Turns to the Game class. Then I got down to work. I added a bunch of code to support combat results table (CRT) processing. Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-36681287404696607642010-06-13T20:56:00.004-05:002010-06-13T21:57:40.202-05:00Fun with Zones of ControlI'm working on elaborating the movement rules by including an awareness of Zones of Control (ZOC). Every unit exerts a zone of control into the surrounding hexes. This has the effect of stopping movement, and triggers Defensive First Fire. I'm implementing movement in the prototype so that entering into movement mode identifies all hexes the unit can move to by Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1083099802733580432010-06-12T21:39:00.004-05:002010-06-12T22:10:22.850-05:00Rolling Along...I put in another hour and a half on the PIC-Guam prototype today. I am finishing up some additional features for movement. Today I was working on the rule that says a unit can't move from one Zone of Control (ZOC) directly to another. I moved the Hexes from the Game class to be a static member of the Hex class...this makes it easier to access everywhere I need it, and it turns Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-44906534402218429702010-06-12T08:49:00.004-05:002010-06-12T08:58:29.727-05:00Game Development Status 6/11/10I spent only a few minutes working at lunch today, but I got the stacking code working. Movement now takes into account stacking limitations. Effort to date for the month is 4 hours 17 minutes.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-29224938580082698942010-06-05T08:15:00.001-05:002010-06-05T08:15:50.066-05:00PIC-Guam Game Development Status 6/5/10 This is my first blog post using Windows Live Writer. It may take me a while to get the formatting right… I’m continuing to make progress on the prototype for PIC-Guam. In May I spent over 26 hours working on the game. I have better momentum now that I’ve had since the last Origins trip for PC Eylau in 2005. My post last October was quite optimistic Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-71271593002842334972010-06-02T22:03:00.001-05:002010-06-02T22:06:19.362-05:00PIC-Guam Movement Demo VideoBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-29171774977868862312010-05-29T13:05:00.002-05:002010-06-02T22:06:04.347-05:00 First PIC-Guam VideoI've started making some videos that demonstrate features of the prototype of Pacific Islands Campaign - Guam.The first one covers phasing of the game turn.The next one will cover basic unit movement in the prototype.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-71630892924662667062010-01-29T09:19:00.003-06:002010-01-29T09:33:42.539-06:00Catching Up...My daughter Emily was born on 11/18/2009. 8 pounds, 10 ounces, ten of everything she's supposed to have ten of, etc. She's doing great.Since November I've put in maybe 6 hours of effort on the prototype for PC PIC-Guam. I'm happy to point out that the board game is available for purchase. I recommend that game. It has a clean game system, good art, and good research. It's fun Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-90337454862201844662009-11-08T13:49:00.002-06:002009-11-08T14:02:53.590-06:00Game Development Status 11/4/09I've been thinking about priorities lately. There are several things I want to work on for the game and limited time in which to do the work. By my own plan I am supposed to be prototyping the UI, the game system, and parts of the AI, pretty much in that order. I have spent time lately on supporting infrastructure tasks such as familiarization with MVVM and Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-25463396684041125722009-10-17T10:59:00.003-05:002009-10-17T11:06:23.587-05:00Game Status Update 10/17/09OK, here's the deal. PC Eylau is not dead, but it is on the shelf. As Miracle Max said in The Princess Bride, it's only mostly dead. Though there has been a shakeup at Clash of Arms that could lead to publishing the game without an AI, I think the game needs to be re-implemented as a C#/WPF game in order to produce a stable product. Taking into account the time Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-45309483731297238092009-09-20T12:29:00.001-05:002009-09-23T12:49:19.606-05:00LSC Career Fair-Tech DayAt the NHDNUG meeting on July 16th, Tonya Britton gave a brief presentation on the LSC Career Fair-Tech Day. This event will take place on the 24th of September. It combines a career fair (bring your resumes) featuring local employers with presentations on technology issues.For more information about the conference at LSC-Montgomery, contact Tonya Britton, program Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-15153718715507801172009-07-08T19:53:00.007-05:002009-07-08T22:05:04.674-05:00D2SIG Meeting NotesI attended the D2SIG meeting last night at the Microsoft offices in Houston. Claudio Lassala from EPS gave a good talk on Data Binding in WPF. He came prepared with a number of good examples of different techniques that explained not only the current thinking on data binding, but also some of the earlier techniques that fell short. Claudio knows his stuff, and dived down Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-42410852833893571642009-07-05T22:20:00.001-05:002009-07-05T22:25:25.183-05:00First Life and Blogging FrequencySomeone invited me to join Second Life a while back. I responded, "I'm still busy with First Life."I don't post as often I would like, but that's because I'm still busy with First Life.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-80711252577791745952009-07-05T21:59:00.003-05:002009-07-05T22:09:32.874-05:00PC PIC-Guam Status 7/5/09I've written the high level design for over 80 percent of the decisions to be made by the AI, so I've switched over to working on the UI prototype for a while.Today I got the code working for the cursor position on the map, and I adapted the PC Eylau code for mapping the cursor position to the map hex. I also figured out how to fix some problems I'd had with that code inBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-83082807279827420262009-07-01T21:39:00.000-05:002009-07-05T21:48:05.105-05:00"If I Had Another Hammer..."Eric Dornenburg wrote a good article on counter-arguments against using technology (an ESB in this case) just because it's cool.If all you have is an RDD or MMD (Management Mandated Development) hammer, everything looks like a nail.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-46216236742128789982009-06-28T09:16:00.002-05:002009-06-28T09:34:25.769-05:00Administaff Observatory Open House 6/27/09The Administaff Observatory had an open house last night. It was one of three scheduled open houses for employees of Administaff (a major donor for the observatory). It was also my "check-ride" as observatory manager; I'd had the training but this was my first opportunity to apply it. Things went well, I think. There were a few hiccups with procedure.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-82513391799768815362009-06-26T21:23:00.002-05:002009-06-26T22:50:51.040-05:00PIC-Guam Progress 6/26/09I'm continuing to test out the rules for PIC-Guam. Chris showed me a recent draft of the map and updated rules. I've been doing map exercises on the landing beaches. I've also been writing up design notes on an AI for a computer version of PIC-Guam. This has helped to generate rules questions on the board game.I've been trying to min-max the Japanese side towards Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-64806380653550583222009-06-25T21:45:00.004-05:002009-06-26T22:57:55.880-05:00Administaff Observatory - NHAC Open HouseDawn and I went to the Administaff Observatory for the NHAC open house night. Members were treated to the full tour of the facility.The observatory is located on the campus of Jack Fields Elementary School. It's a roll off roof design. The telescopes (pictured, left to right) include a 16" Meade Lightbridge dob reflector, a 20" Planetwave instrument, aBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-25655137001156950402009-06-22T21:35:00.011-05:002009-06-26T23:01:28.025-05:00CppDepend Beta Detailed Eval Notes 6/6/09 - 6/16/09I'm happy to report that my laptop is back up on the home network. Here are the notes from my first eval on the 6th and 7th, along with some pictures I blocked out on the 16th.I downloaded and installed the CppDepend beta on June 6th. I had to install WinRAR eval to do so, as the Beta is distributed as a RAR file. I extracted the files the to CBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-42250935227124147562009-06-07T23:08:00.003-05:002009-06-07T23:16:01.859-05:00CppDepend Beta Test - First ImpressionsI downloaded and installed CppDepend this weekend and ran it on the PC Eylau source code. It works fine aside from a few very minor fit and finish issues in the UI. I found out a number of things about my code I was not aware of, and I can see how CppDepend will be a very useful tool for developing code smells.If you're doing serious software development, Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-36270425704596818822009-06-07T22:46:00.002-05:002009-06-07T22:49:45.403-05:00PIC-Guam ProgressI am continuing to playtest the PIC-Guam game. I have been reviewing the rules, particularly from the point of view of writing a computer "AI" opponent. My latest set of questions includesDo landing units have to stay in their lanes? For example, the way the lanes are drawn it looks as if Red 1 can land in either 2712 or 2711. Can you add a note about the lagoon half strength Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-83055959554985562392009-06-05T23:19:00.001-05:002009-06-07T23:25:25.989-05:00NHAC Open House Night at the Administaff ObservatoryDawn and I attended the NHAC open house night at the Humble ISD's Administaff Observatory. We had a great time. We arrived early enough to see them roll the roof back, and got the nickel tour. We observed the moon, saturn, and M13 through the two large telescopes there, and met some other astronomy enthusiasts. This looks like a great Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-655935618344959232009-05-16T17:59:00.004-05:002009-05-16T18:33:58.438-05:00PIC-Guam Playtest - Call for TestersI'm participating in the playtest for Grognard Simulations' boardgame Pacific Islands Campaign - Guam. I spoke with my friend Chris today; he's the grognard at Grognard Simulations. It turns out he's looking for another couple of playtesters. Just one or two at this time. There is no compensation associated with being a playtester that I know of, but Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-23431227085673886962009-05-13T20:11:00.004-05:002009-05-13T20:25:15.548-05:00Pacific Islands Campaign - Guam: Graphic and LinkI'm participating in the playtest for Grognard Simulations' PIC-Guam. I put together some HTML to promote the site and game. Code:Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-22690158595676557352009-05-10T09:31:00.001-05:002009-05-10T09:36:56.566-05:00TADA! No More Ta-da ListsI deleted my Ta-da Lists account today. I tried it out based on the recommendation at The Simple Dollar, but I found it did not work for me. I keep track of my various todo lists in several ways. I have an ongoing developers log in a text file. I edit this in notepad, and I use it to keep track of things I do at work. This includes a rolling to do list that I copy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-87833527777236885622009-05-09T12:01:00.003-05:002009-05-09T12:17:57.119-05:00I Beat Orbital Decay on "Hard"I've been playing flash games on Kongregate to pass the time. One of my recent favorites is a game called Orbital Decay. It's a sidescroller in which you play the part of a lost battleship of some sort. The ship has a main gun under player control, 4 fighter bays, a dozen-odd hardpoints for laser/frag/rocket turrets, and a built in repair capability. All of theseBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-45232605319982348192009-04-25T17:14:00.002-05:002009-04-25T18:50:12.099-05:00Game Dev Status 4/25/09I'm making good progress on the "One Div" version of the AI for PC Eylau. I have put in just over 12 hours of work so far this month. The CreateAttackOrdersFromAssignment() code looks likeThis is pretty simple. If the enemy cannot contact us this turn, move to a phase line along the axis of advance towards the current goal (a victory hex location). If the enemy can Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-46311254912290477042009-04-25T17:11:00.001-05:002009-04-25T17:13:43.866-05:00CppDepend Alpha Testing UpdateI haven't successfully run it yet. It has a few teething troubles. It is an alpha after all.I'm really looking forward to using it with PC Eylau though. Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-90447450259129866882009-03-02T23:04:00.000-06:002009-03-05T21:21:47.189-06:00CppDepend Alpha Testing (and the Love Boat)I've made it onto the Alpha test list for CppDepend. As the name suggests, this is a product similar to NDepend. I'm looking forward to trying this out on the PC Eylau code.I'm not quite sure how much time I'll have for this before I go on vacation. We're taking a cruise later this month.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-43667812035073679822009-02-23T22:22:00.004-06:002009-05-13T21:22:41.519-05:00Dell Monitor First ImpressionsI bought a Dell S2209W monitor this week. I took advantage of the $30 discount, free shipping, and a 7% company discount.The monitor arrived in perfect shape after a few days and assembled easily without tools. It came with VGA and DVI cables. I put it on my desk, attached the VGA cable to my Dell Inspiron 8600, and got to work.It wasn't long before the reflectiveBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-58990165646258048442009-01-19T20:04:00.004-06:002009-02-26T23:04:18.460-06:00First Impressions of NDependI've tried out Visual NDepend a few times now. I have a need to do dependency analysis across shared libraries used by many small applications (and a few medium sized ones). The sort of questions I need to answer are straightforward. What assemblies and methods use assembly X and method Y is the most important one. This guides regression testing and code reviews. Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-31826699757463342792008-12-23T16:09:00.002-06:002008-12-23T16:12:55.545-06:00I Always Knew I Was Certifiable...I passed the Microsoft 70-536 Microsoft .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation test this morning. Along with the 70-528 .Net 2.0 Web Development cert, I am now an MCTS in .Net 2.0 Web Apps.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-3514709935283130662008-12-22T11:11:00.003-06:002008-12-22T11:21:18.489-06:00Grognard Simulations SiteMy friend Chris has re-established the Grognard Simulations web site. The site is quite new and is still waiting on some additional work, but it does have links to Eylau (pricing information is a place holder, I think) and to the new Pacific Islands Campaign - Guam boardgame.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-56752542730033925662008-12-19T12:25:00.002-06:002008-12-19T12:27:40.294-06:00Fonts in BloggerSorry about the fonts in my recent posts. Blogger is doing weird things when I cut and paste, and I'm having trouble getting the same font in all characters in the same post, let alone in different posts.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-85573035543734396342008-12-19T12:16:00.003-06:002008-12-20T15:48:41.472-06:00Front Runner RevisitedI did some more research and finally found information similar to the Front Runner slides at MDC Houston. The strange thing is "Front Runner" is not mentioned anywhere on the site that I could see. Also, the Empower for ISVs site is linked to from the Microsoft BizSpark site, but the guy at the BizSpark table knew nothing about Front Runner. Perhaps this is so new they Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-84398769998749166402008-12-15T20:34:00.003-06:002008-12-19T12:32:25.314-06:00MDC Houston NotesI attended the MSDN Developer Conference Houston on 9 December 2008. I listened to the Keynote presentation and attended four of the sessions.Keynote – Ron JacobsWorst. Keynote. Ever.The “keynote” started with a motion sickness inducing video, and then proceeded to spend a few minutes on each of the broad areas covered in the later sessions. There was a little too much Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-45437895182843997402008-12-02T19:37:00.002-06:002008-12-19T13:41:25.748-06:00NDependI was invited to look at NDepend today. I'm very interested to learn about it dependency analysis capabilities, as I have a need to identify dependencies among assemblies in order to drive rework and regression testing.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-84868587934642833152008-11-07T23:10:00.000-06:002008-11-07T23:11:15.348-06:00Game Dev Status 11/8/08Monthly total 1.5 hours; yearly total effort 49 hours 45 minutes.I've been making notes in a paper notebook for the last couple ofdays. I need to do some hard thinking about the rules, and some realdesign work about the AI before I resume writing code. I've also beenreading the Regs XXII rulebook and assessing the Beta 8 code toidentify rules that are missing from PC Eylau.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-46020341241601117522008-10-19T12:55:00.003-05:002008-10-19T13:08:54.695-05:00PC Eylau Beta 8 ReleasePC Eylau Beta 8 is now released to the test group. This is a password-protected installer. The password is restricted to persons in the test group who have signed the Non-Disclosure Aggreement. Passwords will be mailed to the NDA list in the next day or so.Here are the Release Notes.vive l'E!Important safety tip: clicking on the links above may cause the hosting site (Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-18107545835076240012008-08-15T06:10:00.002-05:002008-08-15T06:36:46.827-05:00Agile techniques help you herd cats. Waterfall methodologies help cats herd you.A friend of mine is working on a project that is sticking with a waterfall methodology in the face of constantly changing requirements. They seem to be stuck in analysis paralysis, though they are making forward progress and taking positive steps to achieve closure on requirements sign off. I think they should be Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-29333829826536001102008-04-05T22:06:00.000-05:002008-04-05T23:12:06.161-05:00Game Development Status 4/5/08monthly total 2 h 24 m; yearly total: 24 h 30 m Things are moving right along. I created a new test scenario in the database. I found 6 places in the code where scenario numbers were hard-coded into configuration and reporting logic. I coded around them and got it to work. This test scenario is the one I have been using for the last couple of years. It's based Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-64758512109907314242008-04-05T22:03:00.000-05:002008-04-05T22:05:54.260-05:00Battlestar Galactica Rapid Recaphttp://gizmodo.com/376179/battlestar-galactica-exclusive-spoilers-and-8+minute-video-summaryNice. I hope they do another one after the dust settles. Beats taking the time away from other things to watch the episodes.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-47946009826188131892008-04-04T22:02:00.001-05:002008-04-05T23:12:44.602-05:00Wish I Could Get a Redo on the GameI'm studying for the Microsoft 70-536 Certification test. This covers .Net 2.0 Framework Application Development Foundation. (Visual) Basically, this means "how to get stuff done in .Net". All kinds of stuff. I'm working through the chapter on Serialization now and just read a sidebar on serialization internals that talks about how the ObjectManager handles Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-27398206070192598182008-03-28T21:40:00.000-05:002008-03-28T21:44:11.640-05:00Game Development Status 3/28/08monthly total 7 h 41 m; yearly total: 20 h 17 mI took the afternoon off and worked on the game today. I'm still working on decoupling the AI thread from the main thread storage.I'm guessing it will be another month or so before we can crank out another "beta". I want to finish the decoupling work, then fix a few of the more obvious bugs that have cropped up Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-44369266782708338022008-03-10T23:39:00.001-05:002008-03-10T23:39:35.819-05:00Game Development Status 3/10/08Things are starting to pick up. I did 10 hours last month, and my total time for this year is around 15 hours as of today. It took me until May to get 15 hours last year.I'm reworking part of the game that transfers data from the AI thread to the main thread. I'm doing this so that I can decouple the AI from the game Exec and run the AI whenever I want, Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-80995080462808325872008-03-04T23:39:00.000-06:002008-03-10T23:41:33.050-05:00RIP E.G.G.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_GygaxBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-18454507869639818822008-01-20T18:29:00.000-06:002008-01-27T18:42:45.717-06:00Game Dev Status 1/16/08I just put a new beta out there where Chris can have a look and giveit the good housekeeping seal of approval.This is officially Beta 8. I converted the application from VisualC++ 6.0 to Visual Studio 2005. I made a few fixes and wrote aninstaller that has a few bells and whistles. Here are some glimpses ofthe welcome page and the Test Guidelines pageOn receiving Chris' Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-77170696164903117152007-11-21T10:31:00.000-06:002007-11-21T10:41:53.280-06:00Game Development Status 11/21/07I put in some work on the game for the first time in two months today. The game just hasn't been a high priority for me lately.I updated the installer and tested it on a couple of laptops. I need to activate a copy of Vista before I can resolve Chris' issues with the installer.While exploring the setup project, I found the View User Interface option in the context Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-2430627679657376442007-09-09T01:57:00.000-05:002007-09-09T01:58:53.100-05:00 New Installer Close to Ready 9/8/07 I have a working install program now. It contains our latest work though the AI is broken since the conversion to .Net. Of course, even when the AI was working, it still is about as intelligent as a monkey.I have sent the code to Chris and parked the setup file online for his review. I'm hoping to make this available to the Beta group ASAP in order to show Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-21031940205027897172007-06-17T10:38:00.000-05:002007-06-17T10:41:12.944-05:00Game Development Status 6/17/07Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I moved into a new house in February and have been very busy unpacking.I have been doing a few hours per month on the game. I have been out of contact with Chris and Clash of Arms during this time, but I haven't had much to report.Most recently, I converted the game to be a Visual Studio 2005 C++ .Net application. I did this so weBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1175654807146568212007-04-03T21:46:00.000-05:002007-04-03T21:46:47.200-05:00Game Dev Status 4/3/07I've completed the implementation of the MB class includingvisualization code.I am now updating the Low-level AI with code that uses the MB class. This involves taking the rough notes I made last fall and convertingthem to logic and function calls, then further elaborating the functiondefinitions. All my efforts right now are geared towards getting thelow-level AI to make Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1175654617792096892007-03-30T22:37:00.000-05:002007-04-03T21:53:10.940-05:00Game Dev Update 3/30/07Monthly total 42 minutes; yearly total 8 hours 40 minutes.We had some surprising developments occur in February. We were able to bid, close, and move into a new house in Spring, TX in just over 30 days. This has been using up all my discretionary time for the past couple of months, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel in the increasing space in my garage.I resumedBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1175654156969507752007-02-16T21:31:00.000-06:002007-04-03T21:36:32.130-05:00PaperbackSwap.comI joined PBS today. A great service.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1175653488091288682007-02-16T21:21:00.000-06:002007-04-03T21:54:15.366-05:00First Gizmodo comment.Long time, first time...Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1175653265907540612007-02-01T21:16:00.000-06:002007-04-03T21:21:05.920-05:00Blogshares!This blog is on Blogshares! Woot!Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1170042551454566402007-01-28T21:46:00.000-06:002007-01-28T21:49:11.466-06:00Still plugging away...My current employer is a great company to work for, but has a restrictive blogging policy that prohibits the use of company equipment for blogging. As a result of this, I haven't blogged since I started work there last September.I started to blog the following on ConsimWorld on 28 Dec: Hi Martin, I'm still plugging away at it. I'm only up to around 80 hours of effort on Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1156527826532009802006-08-25T12:38:00.000-05:002006-08-25T12:43:46.553-05:00Game Dev Status 8/24/06July ~13 total hours. August ~2 hours. Yearly total 66 hours.I fixed a problem with the AI serialization last night. It was causing the game to AV when the Debug AI Info dialog was displayed. Fixing this allows me to move forward (at last) to work on some AI behavioral problems.On a personal note, I begin working as a Senior Business Applications Developer for Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1155840548599138352006-08-17T13:42:00.000-05:002006-08-17T13:49:08.636-05:00Out of Focus? Here, I'll Loan You Some Of MineNice link in today's SD Times newsletter on staying focused at work. Mostly been there, done that, got the T-shirt, brown, quarter sleeve, but I'm going to give 2, 3, and 5 a try, as soon as I finish reading the SD Times newletter e-mail (anti-5).Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1155739682651835412006-08-15T21:44:00.000-05:002006-08-16T09:48:02.676-05:00Tribes 1 Speed Video on YouTubeI found this gaming blast from the past last week on YouTube. The video showcases some speed techniques from the old Starsiege: Tribes ("Tribes 1") game.Makes me want to go out and disc jump for old times' sake.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1154532194896673722006-08-01T22:21:00.000-05:002006-08-02T10:23:14.906-05:00My Linguistic Profile40% General American English30% Yankee20% Dixie5% Upper Midwestern0% MidwesternWhat Kind of American English Do You Speak?Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1151934593418381712006-07-02T20:55:00.000-05:002006-07-11T16:11:07.663-05:00Editorial ChangesI am in the process of removing some posts of personal nature in an effort to focus on the software development aspects of this blog. I'll see what I can do to repost those posts elsewhere. Ideally, I'd like to have a multithreaded blog, such that I can publish different threads as stand-alone blogs, yet keep all the posts readable as a single blog. Something like Martin Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1151933849034797162006-07-02T20:33:00.000-05:002006-07-03T08:39:58.200-05:00Game Dev Status 7/2/06June total 11 hours; July to date 3 hours; Yearly total 57 hours. I am working on bugs in the Exec and the AI. Currently I am refactoring our executeMelees() code while preparing to fix bugs pertaining to assault. Once the current refactoring is complete, I will be ready to fix a problem with all units disappearing after an assault, another problem in which units not in Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1150743086569727212006-06-16T22:50:00.000-05:002006-06-19T13:51:26.580-05:00Back in the saddle, again.I'm back to working on the game on a regular basis. I put in some timeat lunch each day this week, except today (Friday). About 4 hours total.I'm currently working AI bugs. I decided I needed to be bug free inthe AI before moving forward.vive l'E! Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1149634187893210662006-06-06T17:24:00.000-05:002006-06-06T18:01:17.580-05:00Work: Document Managment and Document Site SystemsI've been continuing to move forward on development projects at the office. I now have web-based Document Management and Document Site systems in production to support dissemination of documentation across the company. The Document Site System presents the information to end users. The tree view on the left organizes docs into topics; the frameBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1147977199118927702006-05-18T17:10:00.000-05:002006-06-02T14:37:18.120-05:00Work: Witham Inventory ApplicationI'm still not working on Eylau due to the wedding and the move, and soon the DisneyWorld vacation. I am doing some interesting things at the office, though. I just finished developing a PocketPC based inventory scanning app for our office in Witham in the UK.It's based on the Retain Tracking System I mentioned some time back. The logic is simpler in the WithamBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1147463441455275242006-05-12T14:48:00.000-05:002006-05-12T14:56:39.453-05:00Feelin' Somewhat Less WorthlessBack in November I ran a nifty little utility only to find my blog was quite underappreciated (or perhaps appropriately (un)recognized for its lack of worth).I'm feelin' a bit better now: My blog is worth $564.54.How much is your blog worth?Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1144359275100179102006-04-06T16:34:00.000-05:002006-04-06T16:38:52.000-05:00Game Dev HiatusI'm getting married at the end of this month, and moving my apartmentin early May. Plus I'm going to Disney World in late May. Boxes andboxes of SciFi books, computer science texts, astronomy stuff, andgames. What's a grongard to do?!I've decided that I need to put PC Eylau development on the backburner until June, so I can take of these other tasks effectively.Chris has my last Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1142436651033630642006-03-15T11:39:00.000-06:002006-03-15T11:40:58.130-06:00Game Development Status 3/15/06I was starting to nod off at the office after 5:30pm, so I decided not to do any work on the game this evening. I can implement small features well enough when I am tired, but I tend to make poor design decisions.I did start some reading on how to create Microsoft Installer packages (.MSI). It looks like I can create an .MSI in notepad. At first look, it seems Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1142372141500740222006-03-14T15:27:00.000-06:002006-03-14T15:35:41.510-06:00Online File StorageI think we will move into a more active Beta phase later this year. I hope that we can quickly update the Beta as we fix and enhance it. In order to do so, we'll need a means of delivering updates to the testers. I came across a list of online file storage services. Many of the links on the page seem either bogus or not terribly useful, but I was able to park and retrieve aBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1142354514428859472006-03-13T22:31:00.000-06:002006-03-14T10:41:54.436-06:00Game Development Status 3/13/06Monthly Total 7 hours 49 minutes ; Yearly Total 36 hours 40 minutes.I checked in the code and map for the QB2 Map Demo tonight. I spent over an hour categorizing the outstanding tasks in my TODO list. I collected all the AI tasks together.Next I will make a plan to finish the AI, allocate tasks to the plan milestones, and prioritize the current milestone's set of Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1142273107069864852006-03-13T12:03:00.000-06:002006-03-13T12:05:07.070-06:00Header ChangeMy header used to beMy rants, ravings, epinions, and snapshots of my life and times. By day a mild-mannered software engineer - by night...yawn...past my bedtime. This includes my log of development activities and observations regarding PC Eylau.I decided I wanted to make a change.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1142272780301336412006-03-13T11:54:00.000-06:002006-03-13T11:59:40.303-06:00Game Development Status 3/11/06Charlie has made the decision for me to continue work on the AI rather than develope a QB2 demo.So, it's back to the AI.Depending on how things go, I may spend the odd hour or two on putting together an installation CD for the current Beta. I really want to get the latest and greatest out to the testers.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1142101068369809812006-03-11T12:10:00.000-06:002006-03-11T12:20:27.033-06:00Game Development Status 3/10/06Monthly Total about 5.5 hours; Yearly Total over 34 hours.Last night I spent about 4 hours working first on UI cleanup, then onimporting the ADC Quatre Bras 2 map and countermix into a demo versionof the game.The UI cleanup went very well. I added menu items and toolbar buttonsfor plotting movement, deleting the last plot action, and deleting theentire movement Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1142004648686165492006-03-09T22:29:00.000-06:002006-03-10T09:30:48.713-06:00Game Development Status 3/9/2006I did some work tonight on the LOS display code. The game provides Circular and Point-to-Point LOS display functions to the player. The color coding was inconsistent.I wound up refactoring the code so both functions use the same LOS determination code and the same drawing code.I have one other piece of work to do before I get back to the AI. I promised Charlie Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1141676049462698012006-03-06T14:12:00.000-06:002006-03-06T14:14:09.463-06:00Video Capture of PC Eylau Movement ExecutionLast year we added Movement Execution animation to the game. This is an example of that, showing a low-res capture of first turn movement to contact in a test scenario.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1141228370731979392006-02-28T22:39:00.000-06:002006-03-01T10:45:57.073-06:00ADC2 Quatre Bras 2 Art EvaluationI received the QB ADC2 module yesterday and took a quick look at the countermix and high-definition maps. Wow! Terry Leeds really knows his stuff.My first impression is that we will be able to make use of such art in PC Eylau. I will perform a few tests in the next couple of weeks:1. I will convert a unit bitmap of Terry's so that it can appear in PC Eylau. Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1140705569769412842006-02-23T08:33:00.000-06:002006-02-23T08:39:29.780-06:00AI, AI, AI, AI...(canta y no llores)OK. I swapped a couple of e-mails with Charlie and Ed at Clash of Arms. The bottom line is they need an AI in order to sell the game to a larger audience. This is about what I expected.All the UI and gameplay mods are now on the back burner in favor of AI development. After I review the AI's status, I will draw up a plan to finish it.In other news, I sent aBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1140021415641726012006-02-14T22:34:00.000-06:002006-02-15T10:38:38.210-06:00Big Picture Status/ConsimWorld Forum Posts of InterestOn ConsimWorld, Charlie Spiegel asked me What I want to know Bill, is do you estimate it will be ready for Prime Time this Origins?I replied It's not ready yet. AI work as been on hold since last Origins. I've been concentrating on improving the user interface and the gameplay. We've had no direction on whether to work towards an Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1139956049206647402006-02-14T17:23:00.000-06:002006-02-14T16:30:17.946-06:00Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? You scored as Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica). You are leery of your surroundings, and with good reason. Anyone could be a cylon. But you have close friends and you know they would never hurt you. Now if only the damn XO would stop drinking.Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)75%Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)69%Deep Space Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1139862056862251222006-02-13T14:01:00.000-06:002006-02-13T14:24:39.286-06:00WideScreenGamingForumI had a great face-to-face conversation with one of the moderators ofWideScreenGamingForum.com the other night at Starbucks. I was showing Eylau to Dawn on my laptop, which runs at 1680 x 1050 resolution. This caught Skip's attention, and he introduced himself. We chatted for a while, and I took him up on his invitation to check out the WSGF site.If you really get the big Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1139609808402062242006-01-12T22:47:00.000-06:002006-02-10T16:34:12.950-06:00First Fire in PC Eylau2005 Total Effort: 260 hoursJanuary 2006 Monthly Total about 3 hours.Last night I had a good session. I implemented most of the support for the new First Fire optional rule presented in the Quatre Bras update and in the Regs XXX. This took me about 1 hour to do. Here's what the player sees:* First, I added controls for First Fire to the Select Game Options page of the Setup Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1133301339341434282005-11-29T15:20:00.000-06:002005-11-29T15:55:39.353-06:00The Day Job (again)Well, it turns out that I've been doing AJAX for the most part since 1999, excepting that I haven't been using asynchronous XMLHttpRequest and I've done my work in VBScript. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. In any event, I replaced the DLL containing the XML with an XMLHttpRequest invocation, and everything worked fine. Next, I will secretly replace the DLL with these "Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1132698030647394942005-11-22T14:57:00.000-06:002005-11-22T16:22:11.053-06:00The Day JobI'm moving into some new territory at the office. I've started looking up information on AJAX in order to improve a web-based invoice app.I am currently using a downloaded VB ActiveX DLL to supply the app with rate book information, as it's too much information to download. The DLL provides rates data in XML to the app on demand; the app uses VBScript to load the requested rate book Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1131737107437048412005-11-10T22:20:00.000-06:002005-11-11T13:25:07.450-06:00Game Developement Status 11/10/05Monthly total 8 hours, yearly total about 232 hours.tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.I started work tonight on a game status display. Both Richard Kane and Robert Fulton had suggested we include such a display. This will be a dockable window that will show things such as the weather, game turn and game time.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1131553754376206812005-11-09T12:28:00.000-06:002005-11-09T10:29:14.386-06:00Feelin' Worthless :) My blog is worth $0.00.How much is your blog worth?Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1131427131912755272005-11-07T22:51:00.000-06:002005-11-07T23:19:10.846-06:00Game Development Status 11/7/05(October total 6 hours 13 minutes.)Monthly total 6 hours 16 minutes; yearly total 230 hours 49 minutes.I just sent off the "Halloween Beta" to Chris for review.The Jump Map is now modeless. It toggles on (and off) using the F9 key. The size and position of the reticle representing the portion of the map displayed on screen updates as the map is scrolled or the Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1130335921027365582005-10-25T22:55:00.000-05:002005-10-26T13:23:00.966-05:00Houston vs. ChicagoWell, at least I saw a game tonight which had the roof closed.Seriously, what does Bud Selig want? Perhaps we should dunk all the balls in water and give up a bad umpire call in the 7th each game to make the Sox feel more at home? Not that they seem to need it at the moment.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1130335672742434602005-10-25T22:50:00.000-05:002005-10-26T09:07:52.746-05:00Game Development Status 10/25/05Monthly total 6 hours; yearly total 224.5 hours.I worked on the Jump Map dialog again tonight. I only have one fix remaining: there is a scaling problem storing a "jump point" coordinate when the main window is scrolled. It causes the Jump Map reticle to appear over the wrong part of the Jump Map.Still moving forward.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1130250293821948452005-10-24T22:14:00.000-05:002005-10-25T09:24:53.826-05:00Game Development Status 10/24/05Monthly total 4.5 hours; yearly total 223 hours.I worked on the Jump Map this evening. I imported a new map for the dialog that is much sharper than the original and properly conforms to the proportions of the main map. I updated the reticle code so the red "reticle" area on the jump map conforms to the actual visible area on the PC's display, regardless of Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1129832520903918672005-10-20T13:02:00.000-05:002005-10-20T13:22:00.906-05:00More Good ReadsI also use SharpReader to aggregate a bunch of RSS feeds. One of them served up this alternative to the SEI CMM (or CMMI or SEMA or whatever they call it these days). It's a good read.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1129815854979313042005-10-20T12:42:00.000-05:002006-07-11T16:08:35.966-05:00Good ReadingI subscribe to a number of e-mail newletters. I especially like .Net Insight and MSDN Flash, but others are useful as well.I was reading a newsletter from Red Gate Software this morning and came across an article debating the merits of using stored procedures. I have to say, I come down on the "always" use sprocs side of the argument. The maintenance angle has historically been key Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1129601292303352082005-10-17T21:06:00.000-05:002005-10-17T21:08:12.310-05:00Game Developement Status 10/17/05Monthly total 2.5 hours, yearly total 220 hours.Tonight I added an option to have a hotseat or PBEM game without passwords. Robert Fulton had suggested this feature.I'm building momentum again.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852717.post-1129410280356840782005-10-15T16:03:00.000-05:002005-10-15T16:04:40.363-05:00 Game Development Status 10/15/05I am working on the game again after a little hiatus due to minor things like work, recovering from a sinus infection, making wedding plans, and dodging hurricanes. I converted my notes on Robert Fulton's test observations into tasks:bug 051015-1: (rfulton 050827)high assaulting units failing their roll to close do not move adjacent and exchange FeuenhBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007048836132046085noreply@blogger.com0