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Software Craftsmanship rant
I posted this elsewhere in response to someone's questions about the synergy between craftsmanship and business needs. I'm copying it here because I can Sorry, I didn't have time for a shorter rant...
View ArticleRewiring TOAW dialogs
Right now, it looks like the TOAW dialogs grew a bit organically, they are all very similar, but don't take advantage of inheritance and are complete hand-coded with references to pixel coordinates....
View ArticleCode status
Don't misunderstand me, TOAW was very well written for it's time. I've looked at other programs written around that timeframe and they are absolute messes in comparison. Norm did a fantastic job given...
View ArticleButton, Button, who's got the button.
Figuring out how big average text is is HARD.Normal text isn't too bad, there's a function that will take strings in and spit out the size. Trying to set buttons to the same size so they don't look...
View ArticleWhat's worse than a bug that suddenly appears for no apparent reason?
One that suddenly disappears! You can't ignore it even though it's gone, you still have to figure out where it went.Yesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn't there.He wasn't there again today,I...
View ArticleModern C++ code
Just for fun, here's a little of the new code that's being written. Helicopters is an array that is created here and contains only the helicopters and is used instead of looping through the unit array...
View ArticleUnity 5 changes
Unity 5 has made some changes to their product with the 5 release which make it a lot more tempting for me now. The biggest one is that they are now shipping the same engine for the free and paid...
View ArticleFailure
I just had the opportunity to hit two kinds of failure today.One was the good kind, I tried to generalize sorted lists and after banging my head against different walls for two days decided that...
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PBEM
Oh how I hate managing PBEM games, it is so much simpler to let the player worry about finding matches and sending the games back and forth Simple for a human, not so much for a computer.So much code,...
View ArticleHeaps and Heaps
Dang it! Run time libraries shouldn't be lightly intertwined.I'm trying to link to a C# DLL to do some web related stuff. Simple right? At least my testbet linked and ran just peachy keen.Then I tried...
View Article3 steps forward, two steps back.
Well, that was 'fun' After all that work it worked fine on my machine and failed on everyone else's.So, rewrite everything in libcurl. Aside from all the side alleys filled with gangs of thugs, it...
View ArticleI HATE LIBCURL!!!!
Darn it, why do people insist on creating one entrypoint and passing in 27 different possible parameters.I just spent 12 hours finding out that I needed to typecast the int to a long long or I'd get...
View ArticleUI Code
Here's an example of the new UI code. The old code had a fixed font and used absolute pixel placement so I wrote a quick and dirty UI library based rougly on Deplhi/WPF.My one real regret is that I...
View ArticleTesting
The first rule of finding out where things went south is to make sure that you're looking in the right place :(I just spent two days looking for where I broke things with a recent change that coudl...
View ArticleUI Design and Testing
Sometime I need to sit down and figure out exactly what it would take to convert the dialogs to use CSS-like text files. The code is reasonably close to that now, the difference is that I've got the...
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