First watch, 2 bells (9:16 pm)
This is a red letter day for the MUD I've been working on forever. Today, I have finished implementing and testing a map function. A map is generated based on a radius around the player's current location. Optionally, and by default, the map will also have a context-sensitive key explaining the surrounding terrain. But a picture is worth a thousand words…
And here is a second example:
So there are 2,000 words for you. I'm totally excited! The World Map I have is 180x90, which comes out to 16,200 "rooms" in the world. Each zone, like the world, lives in a directory, and can contain an optional map, map key, weather map, and weather map key. There is another subdirectory for all the room save files that make up the zone.
First watch, 8 bells (12:03 am)
- Wow! Lightning and loud thunder in the morning! #
- Working on my MUD again this morning. I wonder if it would compile on a Mac? #moonfruit help me out here, guys! #
- Modified exit code to support zones now. #mud #
- Playing liar's dice for the last 3 hours. Can't stop! #
- Still up playing Liar's Dice #
- Just picked up the @sjgames Munchkin counter iPhone app. Awesome! #munchkin #
- Rounding up some players for Liar's Dice at lunchtime in the office... #
- Still at work. Winding down, it's been a long day. #
- Visiting with my uncle at the hospital #
- Debugging a real nasty problem in some program code. #
- Two problems: a parent constructor was not being called ina derived object's constructor's initialization list #
- Second problem was a memory issue. Doing final testing and code review now. Ugly problem... #
- Problem is fixed now. Going through logfiles and repairing database entries by hand. Yes, it sucks. #
- Tough day at work today. It was very busy. No idea how long it will take to decompress at home. #
- Haha! "Bacon is Meat Candy" : http://www.cvwine.com/TshirtDesign.html #
- Totally got My wife with the joke: how do you get an elephant out of a Safeway store? #
- Answer: take the "s" out of safe and the "f" out of way #
- Still in cleanup mode from yesterday's issues. Thank goodness I wrote a good logging system to start with... #
- Development staff meeting imminent. Work will cease, but this isn't always a bad thing #
- Resyncing source code in Perforce. It's been a while. Literally thousands of files are being moved right now. #
- Lorien's waiting for a ride home. Wow sync just finished good timing. Later! #
- In-laws are taking their grandkids to Skippers for dinner. They also needed Lorien's car because they don't have room for all the car seats. #
- The kids' parents are in Indonesia this week. I elected to stay home and unwind. #
- As much as I dig fish and chips (it's all I eat when I visit London!), it's SKIPPER'S! That doesn't count! #
- Late evening programming. Nothing like it. Working on MUD code and unique room names. #mud #
- Love and Rockets came up on my music playlist. Haven't listened to them in FOREVER! #
- Dug up two new sourdough recipes on the 'net and mixed them up. My starter is a slow riser, so I'll bake them tomorrow night. Stay tuned! #
- Both new AND old Depeche Mode came up on random. Feels like the 80's, except cooler. #
- Hehe. The Cure is on now. Okay, so most of my music is from the 80s I guess. Sue me. #
- Well, my vocal music collection is largely 80's. I have tons of Irish trad music with almost no vocals. It's largely non-80's. #
- Having some trouble getting C++ STL reverse iterators implemented. I think it's because I'm not understanding some important piece of info #
- It would have been real nice to sleep later this morning... #
- I have been corrected in my use of reverse_iterator. In fact, I was instructed not to use them in this fashion
# - Working on some decryption software for the office. #
- Upgraded WordPress to 2.8.1 today. It was simple, just like every other upgrade. #
- It's quitting time! #
- Hey I'm using the crosswalk here! #1stdraftmovielines #
- Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls. Pop Goes the World by Men Without Hats! #
- Iterator issue resolved. On to a file loading issue. #mud #
- Man this sourdough bread is starting to smell good! #
- File loading issue conquered. Now I only have to worry about how long it takes to read 16,200 data files into memory. Hint: not fast! #
- Current MUD server with 180x90 world map loaded consumes 43728kb of memory. Not bad, really! #mud #
- Bread No. 1 is good. A little too sweet for me. I think the sugar kills the sourdough flavor. Lorien will probably love it. #
- Bread #1 crust is excellent. Inside is fluffy and light. Just a bit too sweet for me. #
- Sourdough No.2 has better flavor, thicker crust, but cracked a lot. Could be that it didn't rise in a pan the 2nd time #
- Kicked the old Room Daemon to the curb in favor of a new, shiny, Zone Daemon to run the MUD. #mud #
- The old room code is gone. New zone daemon is loading 16,200 rooms. Working beautifully. I'm very happy right now. #mud #
- Haven't finished level 3 at #gdcu yet, need to catch up. Good thing the weekend is coming up. #
- Working on some server-side code. Wish the day was already over. #
- Twitter is telling me I should use a newer version of Firefox. But I like my browsers a little older and more experienced.. #
- Thinking about removing the "I": http://yfrog.com/eovhij #
- Wrapping up the day. It's been long. Wish it went by faster. #
- Pulled over to try to coordinate tonight's activities before I drive somewhere I don't need to go #
- Thinking about a design for #gdcu level 4. #
- Working on exit code loading, saving, and auto-generating. #mud #
- I like watching anime, but I have to say it: most of their music SUCKS OUT LOUD. Bleach just started. Shut off TV so I didn't have to listen #
- Currently debugging the loading end of the exit code. Got an error somewhere returning empty strings instead of data #
- Stupid neighbors letting their kids yell and scream in their back yard. Called the police on them. They've got it coming. #
- All exit code is working. Had to take a break for a while and read some Alastair Reynolds. Next up: add map display command. #mud #