Yet another attempt at a short post, which will most likely fail horribly. Anyway, I'll not even try to describe all the fun stuff since last post (Weekend of sailing at my father's newly opened sailing school, the elf fantasy fair, a sewing weekend for Evolution Events, learning functional programming) and skip ahead to yesterday.

Simonic invasion

Yesterday, I had a date with Simon, with whom I am going the build the LARP administration system thing. He is finishing his studies here in Enschede (he lives in Apeldoorn), so he dropped over after his day's work. We spent the evening fiddling arround with phpPeanuts, a framework for building information systems. I had high expectations of it, while Simon was a little sceptic.

It turns out the framework is probably highly usable, but (as most open source software) has a little lacking documentation (or actually, it's documentation is lacking some useful structure). We will probably use it and now we have a feeling for how it works and what it can do, we can start designing our thing. I am also quite confident that our cooperation will work out properly, since even though I am way more of a linux wizard than he is and have more php experience than he has, we are quite up to par on the conceptual level. Should be fun.

Pling

This morning I had a meeting with part of my design project group, to finally finish our product (Pling) and get our grades. On our todo list are four things: Getting highscores to work, ironing out the last bugs, getting our server to compile to a native binary (it's java) and finishing the technical documentation for the server.

Today, we spent the morning finding bugs and fighting compilers, and concluded this would not really work out. Compiling our java server native seems impossible due to the mysql library we used and debugging in flash is pretty impossible... So, we might not be able to finish this project fully, in that we will probably not deliver a fully working and useable game as we had hoped.

Ir. Niels

This afternoon, a flatmate, Nelis, held his final presentation. He is now officially Ir. and MSc. After his presentation, the usual (but nasty) questions and the drinks afterwards, we (most flatmates went there) went home to order food. Since I, together with Bert, was the last sober person, I ordered us shoarma. We had a fun evening hanging around on the balcony. Even though they were quite wasted, I had fun lauging with and about them. We've just finished with a nice campfire. So, I'll get outside again now, I think the fire should still be burning.