Summer School

It has begun a 6 week English Writing class. I don't imagine much of a problem with it but i've heard a couple times that i'm crazy for taking it over the summer, but you gotta do what you gotta do. (Atleast it's not Calc right?) I tried working on a little "adding" program i made awhile back by implementing a Doubly Linked list class i made.. last year. Sadly things aren't going so well, and i haven't really had the time to sit down and work on it, i would like to set up a day for working on it but i haven't figured out which yet. New schedule and all want to get used to it first before i start deciding when i'll do what.

Oh and the web cooking show ended up being a flop, there were certain technical difficulties and it wasn't all that organized, i'm not really "giving up" but it'll probably be a little while before i attempt it again.

Finals are no longer among us

Well it felt like Final Nightmare, or some equally cool sounding thingy... ergh something. Why do i always make log post when i'm tired? Well no matter! On i shall go! .Finals were wicked, i spent a lot of nights getting 1-3 hours of sleep which kinda sucks. I can't imagine how people do the full on 4 hours every night thing. I'd go insane.

Anyway finals are over and i created a todo list to keep me busy. Some things are website oriented and some are just life. Been drawing a bit lately too, but it's mostly copying stuff.

Finals are Among us.

Alright, it's been study study study, for the last couple weeks and somehow it looks like that's going to pick up.. yaaay, fun. But atleast i should be getting some sort of paper degree soon, not my ultimate objective but i'll keep at it.
Not much to say, i'm not entirely sure what i wanted to do to the website next but i've been thinking a tutorial section, and i'm going to start making cooking shows :P you konw, a sort of youtube thing. It'll probably suck at first but it seems like a fun thing to start making video's about. That's all i have to say for now, looks like i missed the latest Ludumdare so that kinda sucks.

ZOMBIES ARE AMONG US!!!

Ok maybe i'm a little late for the whole April fools day thing, atleast from where i'm sitting.. Time Zones and all.

Sooo.. Still in school, Psych started up and i got Calc 2 and Systems programming in unix keeping me busy :).. well it's tough. Programming class has it's neat parts though, we're currently working on a server/client program. Kinda neat, using "sockets" Sadly this is limited to just the computer, no playing with ip address stuff's but maybe some day...

In other news i wasn't able to ftp to the website for about 4 months...... this explains the loong delay between posts. I'm not working on any side projects at the moment though..I already had to cut up my spring break between my 3 classes. Not very fun might i add. Sooo Study Study Study.. I'm actually doing this very late, just trying to point out that i'm still alive and kicking, and i do try to update atleast once a month whether i have anything valuable to say or not.

Future plans: Maybe a tutorial section, and i might create some youtube video's for fun :)

Ludum Dare 22

Well i attempted to participate but went down in flames. This was due to a combination of being unprepared and actually having things to do over the weekend. Soo tried to learn flash but what i needed to know wasn't readily available.. which i guess it would have been smart to just create a different type of game, using what was possible for me.

New years resolution is officially a bust, i might be able to pull off a sidescroller within the next couple of weeks. Which apparently was possible for many people in a matter of days. But i do have a long to do list to get through. So i might try to learn some flash over the holiday's but mainly i think i'm going to focus on real life stuff. Also might study a bit for my math class next semester, a month really isn't that long.

Wrote a Program

 Egadz Batman, Where have you been~ Assuming anyone has actually been visiting the whole time i haven't updated. I apologize. I tend to get less updated when i have hard classes.. And my classes this semester are most deffinitely that. On the bright side i only have a little more then a month left before i get a break :) The classes i take afterwords may be more difficult. but some of them should be easier so that'll be cool.

 Anyway i've created a program Factorial which should showcase recursion pretty well. I was working on my calc h/w and they kept asking for factorials so i thought it'd be nice to have them written somewhere... Now i may have gone a little overboard writing a program to do it for me.. but that's who i am, and what i do.

Java Sucks

Well not reaaally.. the language concept is amazing. Write some code that'll work on any computer? And you can make applets too? so it'll work on the web or as an application? It sounds like it comes out of a magical fairy tail.

I found this extremely intriguing. The fact that it's made to be a little more idiot proof with it's lack of pointers didn't really mean much to me, but it's also written to force you to be more OO conscious. which is cool too since i had trouble with it in some C++ Class. Now i'm taking Data Structures and i believe learning java was a great thing to do before jumping into it.

Buuut there's some major problems. As there has been a heated battle between java applets and Flash for quite some time.. Well it was recently.. maybe 5 years ago before java applets started getting neglected. Now Flash has apparently won this battle, And what great Strides Flash has made.

Although people still carry on making Java applets.. well Notch made the extremely famous "Minecraft" which can be played in an applet.. and then there's Runescape.. And that's about it.

But applets are about to take a pretty big hit with mozilla recently deciding to stop allowing java to be used in Firefox because of certain security issues.. This doesn't bode well for Java on the web especially considering about 30% of users on the internet use Firefox.

Now consider the fact that i believe it's every(?) just in time compiler for java is written in C++. And if you want to use spiffy new libraries written to make your life easier. you'll need to use native libraries anyway. Killing that great portability that java is known for. Plus it has that stigma of being slow which i don't believe is necessarily true. But it's got a lot working against it.

Honestly i've recently grown fed up with it. And for good Reason!!! Now as i understand it, there's great applications for server side crap that i've never gotten into. So i'm not saying this is a useless language, but i don't think it's for me. Not now anyway, it has a really cool concept behind it but i think Flash/C++ just might be the way to go.

Think my next step will be flash, i haven't decided whether Canon Attack will recieve any more attention. If it does it'll just be for death animations or something similar. I'd like to create something that i feel can go somewhere. or be shared.. or maybe i'll just put it on newgrounds. But i'd like to share. And with the kind of support Java is getting right now i just don't see that being a feasible direction to go in. Especially since i haven't sunk Enormous amounts of my time into it yet.

Well a good chunk of time has been spent, but who knows it may be useful at some point?