Currently working on...
Realtime 08: Rewriting the app that displays the videos because I have a better understanding of how this junk works then when I first wrote it. Fix the existing bugs or write better code with few bugs in the first place. The school of thought is that you should fix the existing bugs instead of refactoring but this code is really ugly.
Twitter Language Analytics: I've talked about it on here earlier but before I work on the core animation view for it, I'm going to write a twitter crawler using ruby on rails and mysql to start a database of all words said on twitter. This way I can have access to other language information if I want to do something else in the future.
Advanced Game Developement: Writing a daemon for windows mobile 5 that scans for bluetooth mac address and compares them to a database. Our game has a special type of weapon that acts like a virus. When an infected player comes in contact with another bluetooth device (player or non-player) the infected player will push up the newly found mac address to the server. The server will mark the new address as infected. The virus has a kill rate and once that rate expires the player will be killed or the non-player won't be contagious anymore.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Old oldie but a goody.
Yet another lyric title
I'm thinking the focus of this blog should be public transportation. More specifically DFW/North East Texas transit. Gas prices are getting ridiculous and I'm a "green" fanatic anyways, so why not. I was telling my neighbor how one of the most exciting factors of getting a job in downtown was going to be the fact that I would hardly ever have to drive anymore and his reply was "We can finally act like we're living in the city." Ummm, perhaps it's everyone else who is acting like they aren't. I keep hearing people talking about how the down side of public transit is that they have to live on someone else's schedule. http://www.dart.org put in a starting and ending location and an arrival or destination time. Most routes take less then 30 minutes unless you're going to the urban boonies. I would love to get a candid view of anyone who uses that excuse on a typical day to see what other important activities they are doing. I don't mean to say that you should never drive because obviously there are some days when need to break away from your day to day to go off the beaten path but, if your driving up and down 75 for 5 days out of the week why not use the rail? You'll free up the highway for those who need to drive that day and if there is a common practice of using the transit system, the roads will be less congested when you need to drive.
As a daily patron of the DART system, I've grown very fond of the whole social interaction that goes on between people who are forced to share space for short spurts of time. It's not always a positive interaction but it does bring a new experience than you would get from driving east on 35 during afternoon rushhour (and it's usually quicker too!).
Anyways, I think that's going to be the topic for this weblog as a lot of development of the transit system is going to taking place in the next few years.
I'm thinking the focus of this blog should be public transportation. More specifically DFW/North East Texas transit. Gas prices are getting ridiculous and I'm a "green" fanatic anyways, so why not. I was telling my neighbor how one of the most exciting factors of getting a job in downtown was going to be the fact that I would hardly ever have to drive anymore and his reply was "We can finally act like we're living in the city." Ummm, perhaps it's everyone else who is acting like they aren't. I keep hearing people talking about how the down side of public transit is that they have to live on someone else's schedule. http://www.dart.org put in a starting and ending location and an arrival or destination time. Most routes take less then 30 minutes unless you're going to the urban boonies. I would love to get a candid view of anyone who uses that excuse on a typical day to see what other important activities they are doing. I don't mean to say that you should never drive because obviously there are some days when need to break away from your day to day to go off the beaten path but, if your driving up and down 75 for 5 days out of the week why not use the rail? You'll free up the highway for those who need to drive that day and if there is a common practice of using the transit system, the roads will be less congested when you need to drive.
As a daily patron of the DART system, I've grown very fond of the whole social interaction that goes on between people who are forced to share space for short spurts of time. It's not always a positive interaction but it does bring a new experience than you would get from driving east on 35 during afternoon rushhour (and it's usually quicker too!).
Anyways, I think that's going to be the topic for this weblog as a lot of development of the transit system is going to taking place in the next few years.
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