A Change Of Plans

Ok so basically, as of a few days ago, Fizzure was scrapped due to liability issues. Boo~ I’m sure you’re all so sad. But to me, it’s alright. Fizzure was a great learning experience. And to make up for it, I have another project – yet to be named – that will be a huge project and hopefully spread very nicely. I’m not going to reveal it to you (mostly because we havnt named it yet, [yes, I did say "we"] ), but it’s an original idea with some twists. We’ll see what happens. Not even sure what language we are going to use for it, though it is probably going to be C# again, despite my ever growing dislike for the .NET framework.

More updates later…

My Room Is A Disaster

This is just a current update of whats going on. First off, I apologize for being gone for a while. I was in the hospital. Don’t ask, I don’t want to talk about it. Second. I am in the middle of reconstructing everything! Everything in the room is a mess. Wires all over the floor, running over everything, walking through there is like walking through a dense jungle. Tree trunks and big plants to avoid everywhere. Only the tree trunks are chairs, the big plants are lamps, and theres vines of wires all over the room. It’s ridiculed. But anyways. Here’s some pictures. I deleted all my other posts with pictures because I realized the pictures were too big and stretching the page, and I was too lazy to go back and change the sizes. So I just deleted them haha. I’ll be posting thumbs from now on that will be links to the full size picture. If the pictures aren’t working, just wait a few hours or a day or whatever and come back. That means my comp is off, or not at my house. I transport it a lot. Like now. I’m writing this from my friends house, but I’m still on my own computer….

Yes…Pics….

Oh, and this is -library- of Technical/Programming Information haha.

Yes, that is 2 shelves high…..

As you can see, everything is a mess and its ridiculous. I’m working on it though! I’ll update when its a little more orderly.

The Team Grows

As of yesterday, another programmer has joined the Fizzure project. This makes me very happy but at the same time, a little worried.

I am very happy about having another programmer to help me on this project for a bunch of reasons. It gives me someone to help me out when I am stuck on a bug. Someone to bounce my ideas off of and see what they think. Someone to do another portion of the programming. It is a huge help in a lot of ways.

However, at the same time, I am a little worried. I’ve never really worked with someone in a team on a large project before. I have to figure out the best way to keep code and things organized well between both people.

I am thinking of using Mercurial to help manage the code.  Luckily, the project is easily split into 2 quite separate parts – the Server and the Client. I will be working on the server, and the other programmer will be working on the client. Both of us wanted to almost start over from a code perspective because what I had written was pretty messy. I think it was quite a good idea. I’ve looked at his basic re-design of the client, and it looks pretty good. We are hoping to implement a skinning system for the client so people can make the program look according to their own likes.

I was not happy with the way the server was organized before so I decided to completely redo the structure. The server is going to be a distributed system so that it will be handled by several computers instead of just overloading one. I’m trying to make it an easily scalable and efficient distributed system. We’ll see how it turns out.

I haven’t spent too much time working with the new addition to the team, but the time we have spent has been great. We discuss the best way to do the current thing that we are working on instead of just going right to the first idea that pops into our heads. This, in the end, I think will cause a much more efficient and well organized program. We’ll see how everything turns out.