Syntaxual Sickness

So, I've been a little under the weather once again the last couple of days. I'm not sure if I ate something bad or what, but my stomach just hasn't been quite right. It's gotten in the way of getting somethings done and zapped a bit of motivation from my bones. Yet, I press on, like the determined predator who has extinguished their food supply in a certain area, but who must continue to devour small furry creatures, and who is filled with an ever increasing hunger and blood lust. I am feeling some what better today.

As I'm working a lot on development of the GoG Tournament Connection and on the decipherone website, I'm finding myself having to deal with small syntax related issues with php that are causing me some headaches. I just have to remember to not get a head of myself and to not try and do something that I think should work, when I've seen nothing that has really told me that it should. Primarily I'm talking about things with string formatting and passing data around using variables. Coming from a heavy C++ background, I think I'm finding myself stuck in a certain mindset, or it could have just been the sickness causing me to make stupid errors as when I tried to code yesterday I couldn't really get anything done.

I've got to get back to working my through the Qt book today as well. I had put off working in that area for the last week or so to get caught back up on the other projects, but I should be back on track.

Taking back the web.

Well, I've certainly done an excellent job of focusing on blogging :P At any rate, I am hard at work on things as per usual. I'm working to learn Qt still, attempting to work through the C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 book that I purchased at the beginning of the month. I want to get through the entire thing before moving forward with porting the engine code over to making use of Qt. I figure it could be March before that process is completed.

It would be faster, but I'm also working to development a tournament tool for GatheringofGamers.com . This is going to be taking a lot of time up as it's turning into a rather large project as time goes on. It's been fun to design though and I can't wait to start developing it. I'm currently in full fledged R&D mode still, but as I work with the other site developers to polish the design, work on building it should pick up within the next couple of weeks.

In the mean time as I do research for this project, I'm moving forward with adding some functionality to the decipherone.com website. I added some basic news submission to the site and will be adding some more stuff in the coming weeks.


In other news, after my rant about Microsoft last post, I'm now the proud owner of an XBox 360. I spent quite a bit of time gaming the first few days I got it and have managed to put in an hour or so every couple of days, which is more gaming then I've done in a long time. I have to say I'm fairly pleased with it so far and with the exception of the payment system, am fairly impressed with Xbox Live as well. Dead Space is also an excellent game.