Hi all! As the title suggests, this will be a very quick post. I have to go work on some major assignments, and will be doing so for the rest of the weekend. Woohoo! Weekend fuel = pumpkin pie and strawberries (and some leftover Chinese). Anyways… news:

1) I got the job! Yay! It is however likely going to be more intensive than I thought it would be, so there goes even more of my already non-existant free time. Oh well, as I keep reminding myself, it will look awesome on my resume, and it’s perfect experience for this program. On Thursday, my friend Lindsay and I (we got the two available positions) went to our first meeting for this job… and sat through two hours of developers planning a complicated database out loud. It was not really useful to us until the third hour where we actually got to sit down with our bosses and clarify what it is exactly that we are supposed to be doing. It’s a little weird being relegated to the sole role of “designer” after a few years (including the BIT program) of being both designer and developer.

2) I updated the Fall 2009 Work page with some new assignments from both classes– the last posted one for Design and Authoring being a Pong game =]. So if you want to waste some time, go play. It’s a little rudimentary right now, but it’s our next assignment, so it’ll get better as time goes on.

3) The weather finally shaped up a little bit and today was very warm. I was able to get away with three layers instead of the four/five I’ve had to wear over the past week. Still haven’t broken out the winter boots, and I’m hoping to not have to do that until November (optimistic ).

I believe that’s it for now. I have a midterm on Thursday (programming), and assignments due Wednesday and Friday, so this week is going to be a busy one for sure. Have a great weekend everyone!
~T

Hi all! Happy belated Thanksgiving! Hope you all enjoyed your turkeys/chickens/hams/ McDonalds/whatever. Me, I had a nice helping of pasta and tomato sauce with a generous serving of midterms on the side. The first one was today, I’m sure I passed, but we’ll see by how much. Nobody knows how hard of a marker this prof will be. My next midterm is next week, but in the meantime, I’ve got another load of assignments to do. Hence… once again, this blog is not a high priority. Sorry =[.

Oh, and earlier we had a snow warning for later this week... which has now been removed =). It is pretty cold though. There's gonna be frost tonight, the first of the season. I practically ran home from the bus stop today because I was so cold. Time to start layering... I am about to sit down to a nice cup of Chai tea, though, which I'm sure will warm me up nicely =).

Have a good week everyone! =]
~T

Hey all. Just thought I’d let you know– I’ve got midterm exams and a handful of midterm projects due in the next few weeks, so blog posting is kinda a low priority right now. Sorry. In some quick news:

1) I may have a job soon. A design/coding job which actually has relevance to my program, at that . And the hours are manageable. Not to mention I get paid, but this is more for the experience than anything. I’ll keep you guys updated on this.

2) There are 110 spam comments on this blog and only 28 legit ones. Grr. The amount of spam this blog gets is terrible.

3) I miss you guys. <3 [K,  Mom and Dad, Dan, Katie, David, Haley, Aunty Jai,  and Geoff] =]

Have a good Frey’s Day, all
~T

[The assignment was to code a program with a rocket that moved and spewed smoke around (by way of a simple particle system) and in which the user could control things like the rocket's direction and how much smoke there was. I hadn't started it before tonight, and it's due on Tuesday, so I'd figured I better get a move on. It's done now, as evidenced by the following transcript. Screenshots are on the Fall 2009 Work page. The transcript was meant to give me something to do when I was taking a temporary break from coding, as many regular short breaks are more productive than random long ones]

Comments added post-transcript are denoted by [ ]

8:02
Starting. Need to install Allegro first. [Allegro is the graphics system plugin for C]

8:10
Allegro installed. Let’s see if it works.

8:15
Visual Studio crashed. Yay for Microsoft.

8:18
Allegro runs properly. Time to actually start the assignment.

9:47
Got the rocket and particles moving properly in all four directions. WOO. That’s half of the assignment right there.

[For my reference as I was working, because I was getting messed up]
DIR—–ROCKET—–DIR—–PARTICLES
up—–0—–down—–1
right—–1—–left—–2
down—–2—–up—–3
left—–3—–right—–4

10:20
Got the increasing/decreasing particle density right! . What else is there left to do? Hm…

11:01
Just have to make sure everything is properly commented and I’ll be done! Not bad; three hours from start to finish.
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Today I walked a large chunk of Sussex Dr. from Boteler St. to Rideau. I’d forgotten how nice the Parliament side of downtown was. I’ll be returning there soon, hopefully. Also, I am now the proud owner of a Chinese-style tissue box cover. That’s right, be jealous . (There’s been a temporary table/kiosk set up in St. Laurent Mall for the last few days which has been selling all manner of cool Chinese things (statues, pillowcases, tablecloths, jewelry, wall hangings, bags, purses, wine bottle covers, etc., etc.) . It is unfortunately/fortunately directly in my path when cutting through the mall to and from the Transitway. Talk about temptation.)
~T