New Job, New Program

I got a new project that I started last night. It was inspired by myself, just to see if i still had it in me. I'm talking about programing, a new program.  I realy want to write about some of my source code, but this is not the project for this. Reason being i dont know where this program will lead me. Like i said it is for my self, but i may liceans, sell, or even give it away.  Therfore i dont want to leak out too much source code, if this becomes profitable. 

This program came to me in a dream. I know creepy. I was dreaming of writing code. The next day i started planing out the classes and program structure. I probably did not write more then 20 lines of code already, and I'm very prod how it looks already. The organization and structure seems very solid, and i can tell that already o have a great foundation to expand upon.

So what can i give away? Well right know the source code is in java. It most likely will stay that way too, since I'm going to have a graphic layer on top of my core program.  This limits me down to java since it is the only language i have work graphics with. Traditionally, graphics come last in the programing stages. In the mean time i build a command line tester class. But for this program i have already planed beyond the basic graphic steps. I have planned to even test my skills with jogl. Jogl, is java api wrapper class for openGl. This would allow me to do 3d graphics.

Blogging + Laptop = NO TIME!

If you you know me, you know that Time is truly my only enemy. It is one thing humans don't have full control over. And because I'm technologist i know that faster you move, time appears to slow down, but that is relative.

Anyways time is killing me, and you too. I remember the day, when i was able to flock around freely, with out a minds eye to time. Was able to ride the bike, play Counter-strike, and still have time for school work. Used to be a admin to both a large gaming community (Texangirlz) with several gaming servers, and to a worldwide anti-cheat program (SteamBans). This would take hours of my day to day life, and i enjoyed every minute. But today i have no time, and no longer part of either.

So with my new laptop, i was thinking i could do more, since my whole life is a round a computer. So more on a computer more i can do. But that may not be the case. I know spend time blogging, reading on about blogging, checking rss feeds and doing homework while chatting with the few friends i do have. What I'm missing is podcasts.

I'm a huge podcast listening fan, with about 45 subscription feeds, getting over 30 podcast a week. Now having the laptop i know longer use my main rig, with all my podcast. I cant subscribe to them on my laptop since, hard drive space is slim and the on board speakers suck. Also when I'm using the laptop, I'm in the living room watching TV in the background.

So I'm prod to say that I'm on my main rig working on a new program, and listening to podcast. I have a lot of catching up to do. Luckily my current program project is in JavaScript for iGoogle, and i never used JavaScript. Therefore it will take some time to learn the basics, giving me plenty of time to catch up.

I <3 gCode

gCode you ask?

G standing for two different things
First it is short for Good code, you know the good clean stuff
Second is stands for Google, the maker of the code/api

Yesterday i started to work on a program that would run in the background and check for updates on this blog, if there is an update, it then would ping some blog trackers. Very simple. But what made me so happy, how easy the Google api is to work with. I did not have to use the api, could of made an rss feed reader, but that would of been more work.

Another reason why I like the gCode, the api was simple but powerful, and already has some docs built up. With such a great api I was able to dive right into the code and explore. I have not used Java in sometime, so it was a great way for me to get my feet wet again.

This post is the first test with my code, so wish me luck...