News
Casual Arcade
Shooters
Time Management
Seek And Find
Strategy
RPG
Toons Online
Rusty Blog
About Rusty Axe

<--! style: inset; border-color: black black black black; border-width: 3px; background-color: #000000">

Building Stuff
June 3rd, 2007


It's been a week of very little coding here. Our fixer upper had an old tar paper covered deck that was causing a variety of problems - not the least of which was heart burn every time I had to look at the thing so before painting the house last week I tore the old beast down. The 2×6 joists and the tongue and groove plywood were still in good shape so I salvaged those before building out my lumber lists and trekking over to the local cedar mill. Two big loads of rough cut cedar later I was back home and ready to start building. It has taken a couple of days but the deck is back up and now includes walls with cutouts for 47.5?x45.5? windows which I have kicking around after my uncle brought them by - they had a bunch of glass from an apartment renovation they had done so I scavanged it for this purpose. I am trying to get a side shed built on as well before the roofers arrive later this week to tear off the ailing shingle roof and replace it with a sweet looking green metal roof. Can't wait - I'll post pictres. That along with the paint job that came out pretty well and the place is beginning to look semi-respectable. BTW, I rented a high end airless paint sprayer and I can't say enough about it. I used to have a $89 Wagner sprayer and I will never use another one - they do a messy job and there is a ton of cleanup after.

I have finally called it quits with the new VC++ compiler and gone back to VC++ 6.0. Microsoft seem to have broken just about everything that I use with the 2005 version and I was gamely sticking it out in the hope that I would learn a few more things and get comfortable with it. Nope. The very bad Brief emulation (how can you regress Brief emulation...), the overly eager error reporting, the fact that you can't link in some older libraries (Freetype wouldn't link for some reason until I went and got a new version) and the much crippled recompile on the fly feature have just been a complete nightmare. This morning I was working on Font Fiend and decided that it was worth an hour to recreate the project for VC++ 2006 and just get back to work. I'm pretty happy about the decision - once I got the project rebuilt and up and running I realized just how loathesome working with the new IDE had been and breathed a big sigh of relief. I've gotten a lot of the windows framework up and running and should actually be seeing fonts in the tool this week - once I can do that, read and write the font files and adjust the hotspots then the tool will actually be useable in my production pipeline. At that point I will get to the really fun part where I can work on the font effects and making the compositing tool useful.

Entourage is back on! I've had the theme song running in my head for the past couple of days. My brother can't get past the fact that the show is roughly based on Mark Wahlberg - not entirely fair because Markey Mark has been solid in a lot of great movies, including last years "The Departed" which I really enjoyed. But anyhow, Entourage is an event and if you haven't seen it yet you should do yourself a favor and go get the DVD's. You are in for a real treat.

Peace-out,
L.

No comments have been provided.

Your Name:
Your Location:
Country (flag):	Please Choose Canada UK USA Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma Burund Cambodia Cameroon Central African Rep Chad Chile China Columbia Comoros Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic DR Congo Denmark Djiboutil Dominica Dominican Rep Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eq Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Grenadines Guatemala Guinea Bissau Guinea Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Neth Antilles Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Rawanda Romania Russia Sao Tome Saudi Arabia Scotland Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Korea South Africa Spain Sri Lanka St Kitts_Nevis St Lucia Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvala UAE Uganda Ukraine Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Western Samoa Wales Yemen Yugoslavia Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe
Article Rating:	Choose 5 - Excellent 4 - Good 3 - Fair 2 - Poor 1 - Dreadful
Your Comments:
Security check *