Hammer of Code

Well the gloves are off as I start back into “real work” this second term. While I am glad that I paced myself by giving myself time to test and reflect, I really have missed the active work and planning of things on the go. I again have more that I want to do in a week than I will probably have time for. This week marks the beginning and end of mid-term evaluations, and as such I completed my official Google evaluation, and will be producing a 500 word (2 pageish) report for Mithro and my mentoring organization on my project thus far (to be worded in layman’s terms.) This report should be helpful in producing better documentation for beginning players as it forces me to think about my project from a beginners perspective. More on screencasting and XML after the jump…

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Well I’m afraid I have very little to talk about, even after missing out on a day of blogging. Today and yesterday I spent a good deal of time working on things alternate to debugging. Yesterday I completely rewrote the Thousand Parsec wiki entry on Risk, and created a new “Getting_Started” page on the wiki as well. Today I finally got around to a heavy dose of reading; spending a good deal of the day greatly extending my knowledge of C++ with the book Effective C++. All this alternate work makes for very boring writing, and I don’t really have much to say other than this: Writing documentation helps in understanding how your own product works, and Effective C++ is a really good book.

Tomorrow sees me travelling 150km to Winnipeg to go to my twin sisters High school graduation. Ok, she isn’t my TWIN TWIN, but we can easily call ourselves twins, we look almost exactly the same and share tonnes of the same interests; We hang out a lot when I am in the city during the school term. When fall rolls around she will be attending a somewhat prestigious digital art program in town.

Farewell for now and I’ll speak to you again on Friday.