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Rome 0.5

Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Rome MDI Interface

Its coming together at last, i decided to take time off from fixing the vector maths that are causing me alot of headaches and spruced up the interface and functions. I also fixed the Crowd Panel threads so rendering is done in its own thread at last. no more locking from sleeping the wrong threads. I dont feel like its so far from being workable, i can implement loading alternate XML Scene sheets easily now, runtime controls are hooked up properly, all i need is to make a DataPanel which holds a list of the entities on a scene for detailed feedback of the plebians on a floor. This should also be relativly

Why am i here?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Its Nix, Its 5 and im still here for another hour….
Ive been around this deparment since 9 this morning. I’m going to go mad. Thankfully i’m surrounded by peeps in a similar situation. Still sucks the proverbials. Found a handy book on Huffman Enc. for Neil and also found out that Alternative Neil has 7000+ rows with the word “porn” in the domain name on his DB. Always good to know such things. I want to convince him to let me have a query box to see words in domain names. Fat chance thou, takes AGES to search.
Got a phone call from someone today asking to visit the house… i’m not sure why i’m getting all the calls, especially when

Rome wasnt built in a day

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Hey all, nothing too interesting, its 1AM and i have a lecture at 9, have a funny feeling that Factory aint going to be much fun this final semester. :( Didnt go out with Gav in the end wasnt too bothered in fairness, wasnt upto going out anyway. And i actually managed to do some work on my Final Year Project :O I didnt actually do anything specific, i spent an awful lot of time sprucing up my code i wrote over xmas. Changing Points to DoublePoints and then to Point2D’s etc (took about half hour of pissing around to do that), removed a ton of code from one class, moved to others etc.
But anywoo, i managed to

Planet Comscare - Updated

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Ok, i just realised that most people probably dont even know this exists yet. So just in case i’ll warn thee all.
No longer do u have to check +5 blogs to see if anyone has posted, nor use clever software to tell you, for neil has setup a Planet for us to use. I tried making my own RSS aggregator, and it worked real nice as well, apart from James dates causing problems. But now, after coaxing james to actually fix his damn code, we have a working planet.
CS Blog Planet planet.warmfusion.co.uk
Hurrah for us.
Update: Since setting up the planet, neil realised that he’d have to turn off the machine it

Slow Blogging Day

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Hey, No blogs of crazyness today, been very busy working with ben on new design drafts for Face Model Managment, a prospective client of Web Dragon. Ive been designing a logo for them to use for the past few hours, and i’ve got a few that i quite like. I’m not sure if i should show you them on here yet, the copyright is mine, but its still a bit of a grey area for draft works.
We have a good idea for the basic site layouts etc and we’re basically waiting for me to finish my logo :) but me and ben have been working on managment systems in order to make sure

Comsciki

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Once again, the Cardiff University Computer Science Wiki is running and online, this time however its offsite and thus we have more control over it. Be aware that the copyright issues we encountered with running it in dept. are still around, ie Lecturer notes etc are technically either copyright to the lecturer or some other organisation and have been used educationally. As such we might need to think about reguiring a valid student number or something and limiting access, possibly proxy an auth routine via dept or summin. But never the less, its online and groovy, all the old data is still there, the styles arent back yet but its not too different. The

The Mighty Crawl

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

Sorted,
6 exams down, none to go. End of Exams for the semester
the Maths exam wasnt as bad as i was expecting, hopefully scrabed a decent pass, but im not sure about the Software Engineering exam, i suspect i failed badly on that, unless my blagging technique pulls me through.
As a celebratory celebration we went on an 8 pub pub crawl starting around 4pm from our house. We invited various people, alun and luke turned up with their housemates alex, and tickles with chris turning up later on in the procedings. All of these housemates i’d never met before but got on really well with so that was nice :) it was strange to see similarities between alex and the way