Hammer of Code

My adventures in GSoC 2008 working on Thousand Parsec, among other things

more trouble than expected

Well I had an interesting time today implementing my Colonize doOrder. What can I say other than that I learned a minor lesson in “10% of the work takes 90% of the time.” I honestly expected implementing Colonize to take less than a day, but I ended up wrapping up today with a Colonize order [...]

slip and slide + oil

As my title suggest things start moving VERY quickly today. I’d finally gotten through with little things like OrderParameters and the like yesterday, and today I started on the orders themselves, more specifically their doTurn() methods. I have to say I was shocked at how quickly things started moving with Parameters out of the way; [...]

elbow grease

Today turned out to be highly productive. I spent almost the entire day using TextMate’s TODO bundle to tie up loose ends. Consequently I don’t really have any big things to go on about in this post. I don’t want to subject you to a point form list of 15-25 little fixes I made, so [...]

segfault bisected

Since it would be criminal for me to be highly productive and successful for any more than a day or two at a time I (or my code maybe) decided today was as good a day as any for a segfault. To make matters worse for some reason “make && sudo make install” wasn’t good [...]

thats better

Well that was a lot better than yesterday. In stead of hardly being able to code for half the day I had to pull myself away from coding today. I got a variety of little things taken care of today, some from Lee’s email, some from my list of things to do this week, and [...]

a little bit like molasses

Well today wasn’t exactly what I expected. I had high hopes to go hard and build the frame for my turns and orders but I mainly ran into little brick walls. It wasn’t that I broke anything, I just ran into a bunch of little questions that I needed answered before I could go on. [...]