Category: Code in Progress
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A new project
Any time I sit down and attempt to write on a game project – old or new – I run into what I call an organizational dysfunction. Where to start? Where to put things? Dumping into Word/LibreOffice/KWord/Wordstar ( okay, maybe not Wordstar ) doesn’t hack it after a point. I do a lot of work…
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Okay, so do it…
Tally Ho! It is all well and good to talk about this, but it came time to do something. And pick up a new framework along the way. Anyone who has known me for a while and had any talks about code knows I’ve always had some weird disconnect with GUI programming. There’s some weird…
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Metadata Storage
The Story So Far In looking over the last post it becomes clear that one of the problems with this kind of set up is labor. One or two files at a time? Sure. But 50 Gb? Never happen. This is where we need to leverage other data sources. Anyone who spent any time converting…
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Collection Labeling
In my last post, I broke up what I feel are the major issues with organizing a PDF/E-Book collection (that lives outside an ecosystem such as Amazon books) into three categories. The first is labeling. Labeling is all about identifying specific ( such as the title ) and general ( such as its genre )…
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Revenge of the Brane: Unfinished Projects
Problem One of my irregular chores is attempting to sort/filter/categorize the PDFs I’ve accumulated over time into something better than a rolling mess. I’m sitting at a somewhat sizable 31Gb and around 4500 files in just over 20 years of purchases, downloaded demos, and my own files – and that’s excluding novels, non-fiction, and comics.…
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The Project List
I have 3 categories of projects I have up in the air right now. Tabletop RPGs Modern Knights – This has two activities going on with it. The first is a heavy re-edit of the rules as they were.. not the most clear in the first edition. The second activity is splitting it between the…