Hammer of Code

Before I post my first official weekly report I just wanted to throw out some commentary. Today I worked mainly to produce a graph of all the positions of the stars in their constellations. I used OmniGraffle to do so and found it was a pretty painless procedure.

OmniGraffle was nice enough to give me the positions for all the stars as well, and I transferred those coordinates to the ruleset itself. This whole process wasn’t exactly speedy, and I haven’t even hard coded the adjacency matrix I am going to be using to indicate connectivity. For this reason I want to work on an import system to take a file in some generic format and create stars and an adjacency matrix for it. My initial knee-jerk idea was XML, i’ve always wanted to get my hands wet in it, but mithro also suggested an actual image. We’ll see what time permits once I get a working ruleset going.



I also wanted to let everyone know I’ve created a page on the blog here to document some of the extra ideas that I can complete this GSoC should time permit (comments very welcome, as always). The page will focus mainly on long term ideas, and not short term ideas. Those short term ideas are usually coded in comments in my code as TODOs. Which I have to add, TextMate handles wonderfully; I simple type Ctrl-Optn-T and I get a list out of all my TODOs (meaning I don’t have to scour my source to find them.)