Well after almost a full weeks worth of meddling, script writing, and the addition of wormholes to RIsk I’ve finally managed to begin filming my screencasts. As things turned out I quickly realized how useless my scripts actually were, and quickly reverted to “winging it.” Since I intend to down the screen captures I don’t [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by jphr
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Well it is my first day back at work without family meddling around the house. It is a lot easier to get, well, anything done. I spent some time today playing around with clients and finalizing my plans for the screencasts. I’m very glad to have wormhole support as I now no longer need to [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by jphr
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Rings the bells and spread the word, vacationing family has finally vacated! I am now free from the influence of 4 adults and 5 dogs intruding on my workplace. I have to say I really expected things to go a little better than they did; Originally half of the family was staying at a local [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by jphr
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Well as a culmination of many things this week probably turned out to be the biggest waste of time/disappointment of my time with GSoC. As a result of 5 large dogs, 4 adults and 1 baby taking up temporary residency in my home (I think its called “visiting”) I’ve gone from productive to… well not [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by jphr
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Well I’ve finally gotten a substantial break away from family to get some productive work done this week. As I was saying earlier, I’ve gotten the default map for the Risk ruleset all sorted out, and I am now working on scripts for the three screencasts I’ve decided to do (Map making, Basic play, and [...]
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by jphr
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Well I’m getting the feeling I will be having less and less to write about daily in the coming few weeks as things start to wind down. Right now I’m working on scripts for screencasts and I just finished the full default map in SVG. I’ll be sure to post links to videos as I [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by jphr
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I unfortunately need to be brief this weekly report; Companies coming saturday and our house needs much tidying and chores, many of which I am responsible for :(. This week was another one of those “feel good” weeks that happens when a lot of things go right very quickly. The last such time like this [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by jphr
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Well today was another one of those odd “productive days.” I got naming constellations working, as well as their bonuses. At present to label a constellation all one needs to do is create a text object with %NAME%|%BONUS% that has the same color as the constellation being labelled. This may or not be the best [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by jphr
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I dare say it, but these last two days may have been the most productive days I’ve had all summer. Now, its not that I worked an excessive amount, its just that things WORKED out… Now this efficiency is compounded by the fact that yesterday I spent almost the entire day dealing with my cats [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by jphr
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Glad to be back into the swing of things and actively coding again. This week marked the end of the first half of GSoC and the beginning of the last! All in all, it was a week full of “in-betweens;” I spent a good portion of the week working on my official GSoC midterm report, [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by jphr
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