ZDLSharp Design Ideas

Well, I’ve started hacking away at ZDLSharp, so I figure I’d get some input from the people that will actually use it.

I’m announcing a network manager that will let people on the same LAN (and eventually across the internet) easily host and join games. To help keep file dependancies as easy a possible, I figure that I could index all the files in a certain directory, and keep an MD5 hash of the file (only rehashing if the modification times change). When a host creates a game, it can send that MD5 hash to the other users, and automatically select the files. If the correct hashes can’t be found, search by filename, and if that can’t be found, ask the user where to find the file. This should make it fairly painless if multiple people want to join a game.

What do you guys think? Any ideas you could contribute?

Open Season for Ducks

Well, Ottawa played the second game in the Stanley Cup Final against the Anaheim Ducks last night. It was an intense game, but strangely not exciting. It was scoreless until the last 5 minutes, when Anaheim scored on Emrey. Emrey has done very well as of late, so keep up the good work.

I’m sure, if anybody walked out in a Ducks jersey in Ottawa today, they wouldn’t make it home alive. Come on guys, lets start winning some games! We’re currently down 2 zip in the finals, with the next game at 8:00 eastern Saturday night.

House?! What Gives?!

I don’t know how many of you watch House, but every Tuesday, my roommate Zack and I head over to our CA’s apartment to watch House.

Anyways, this week’s episode is total Bull! There’s some spoilers to it, so read it after the jump:
Continue reading House?! What Gives?!…

Go Sens Go!

Well, game one if the Stanley Cup Finals just finished, unfortunatly Ottawa lost 3-2 to Anaheim. Ottawa played really well though, but apparently not good enough.

Ray Emery, in particular, played really well. In my opinion, he’s a really good goalie, but I’ve heard others say he’s just done well this season. It doesn’t matter! He’s done a good job.

The next game airs at 8:00 EDT, with the pregame at 7:30 (CBC, of course). Tune in!

Online Comics

I enjoy comics as much as the next guy, in particular, I enjoy Ctrl+Alt+Del and VGCats. As for print comics, I like all the usuals: Dilbert, Jumpstart, Herman, etc. They just crack me up.

Stressful day at work today, for the most post, everything failed to compile correctly, and I found I didn’t actually have a version of a Java Compiler that… you know… worked. Sigh! That’s one of the reasons I like C so much.

I’m going to be working on ZDLSharp again soon in the near future. I’m aiming to get a release in the next 2 weeks, but we’ll see how that goes. Oh, and by release, I mean beta. There’s a lot of work to do, and I’d like to incorperate some interesting LAN features. Hopefully it will make a few… operations easier to do.

GuiFactor

Wow, 5th blog post today.

Anyways, releasing another program. If it yells at you for something about .NET, visit this page.

In one of my logic classes, our assignment was to take a number and put it in standard factor notation. It’s a prime number to a power multiplied together. Me, being well me, lazy, decided to write a program to do it for me. I present this to you now:

GuiFactor (.NET, Mono compatible, 9K, .ZIP)

And a screenshot:

Innovation at IBM

You may or may not know that I actually work for IBM, and one of the things they strongly encourage is innovation. That being said, check out this 4 minute vid:

TimeClock Release

You can pick up TimeClock off our ASO server here.

Ready to go!

Well, a few moments ago (okay, maybe like 15), I got my username and password for A Small Orange, downloaded my blog from Awardspace, and uploaded it.  I did a database transfer, and everything was totally painless!  I’m not on my new host, and it seems to be really great.  I’m happy with it.  A lot of things got enabled that I didn’t even know were in Wordpress, plus I have my anti-spam comment filter active.

Anybody care to comment first on my new blog?  I know you do.  What about Mark?

Moving, Yet Again

Well, I’m pretty pissed off at how Awardspace’s free service, and honestly, I don’t want to keep them on, so I did some searching, and I found this pretty nice host, called A Small Orange. I purchased one month of hosting from them for $5. I get 400MB space and 10GB of bandwidth. I’m looking at redesigning the Vectec homepage. Because it sucks. Badly. I like the minimalistic feel that ASO gives me.

I should get my login details within 24 hours, and I’ll start moving my blog then.

Edit: Oh yeah, and I’ll reenable non registered comments, and I’ll finally get working mail (so wordpress can actually send mail), and get an anti-spam plugin for wordpress, which Awardspace doesn’t support