Distractions

June 13th, 2007

Quite a few things are happening, and I am not able to code my usual 5 hours a day on PA. One distraction has been a reward I promised myself for when PA was made public. After it’s release I bought a camera along with a couple of lenses. So now I bring the camera everywhere I can, and try to get to know it.

Another side-track has been to make a few html scripts for PeerAware. I started out making a script for playing chess, followed by battle-ship, and finally Texas Hold’em poker. Well, the first two were simple enough, but I had never played poker before so I had to learn that by playing, reading, and watching World Poker Tour on TV. I had no idea how much fun poker was, and now I can see why so many play it.

The support for html scripts was not planned, and originally the chat window was implemented as a text window. In order to get smilies into the chat like in Microsoft Live Messenger, I struggled for a bit, and found that it was a lot easier to add smilies to a html document. And then I found that, hey, I could do a lot more with this, and added a small API for sending messages to other people in the workspace. And then it was really tempting to make a couple of games with this. So far I have made the mentioned games, and an adaption of cumulate draw (http://www.cumulatelabs.com/cumulatedraw/) so that people can draw things together. My Cumulate Draw adoption has not been released yet, but eventually it should be.

My final distraction is work. Daytime I work for Opera Software writing network code, and tomorrow morning I am off for two weeks in Japan working with a partner on a customer project. That should take a couple of weeks, and meanwhile I will not be able to make any updates on PeerAware. But seeing Japan should be fun.

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