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justCheckers on Hold – Again – Kinda
I’m putting my involvement with the justCheckers project on hold for a while. Progress ground to a halt when I started to dig into the code. In its current state most of the application’s core functionality needs reworking. Meaning to go forward someone would need to reimplement slides and jumps that allows for multiple jumps…
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Retro-gaming: Torus Trooper
In the mood for a bit of retro-gaming? Try out this amazing abstract shooter. Torus Trooper is a fantastic game, where you fly a fighter through a twisted torus filled with enemies. The art brings you back to the era of wireframe graphics. The trancy, techno music provides an excellent, motivating yet relaxing ambience. The…
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How Not to Run a Community-Project: justCheckers Post-Mortem
So the day before yesterday, Aaron Seigo wrote up a brilliant piece on running a community-driven project. Since I stole^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed his post, I want to contribute back my own experiences. The justCheckers project is currently in a semi-active state at the moment. But in its heyday, we had a group of 5 active developers. But…
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Experimental Web Application Branch
Yesterday I started upon moving justCheckers into a web application. I didn’t want to pollute the trunk of the subversion repository. So I created the webappbranch. You can grab it by running: svn checkout https://justcheckers.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/justcheckers/branches/webapps My next major task to tackle is updating the documentation on the wiki and in the source code. After that…
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Reopening the justCheckers Project
Made the plunge today into FOSS development again. As I mentioned in my previous post, I considered and started work on the next version of justCheckers. There are a few reasons why I restarted the project. I want to play around with Java web technologies. I also want to experiment with project management and FOSS…
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Todo Progress So Far
Remember my TODO list for this year? No, I’m not gonna tell you when I posted it. And no if you find it, you are not allowed to post a link or a hint to it. If you are long time reader and you found it, consider yourself part of the in-crowd. So how well…
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Blogging the Busy Life
Its funny actually. I imagined that with work, I’d have more money and time to do the things I want. Money is not the issue after all. Time on the other hand, is the ultimate scarce resource. Hence I blog less than I want to. Fortunately as I fall into the rhythm of work, free…
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Forward Looking, Backwards Loss
Eric S. Raymond, once said that open source is about a “developer scratching an itch.” Thats what I tried to do with justcheckers. Unfortunately that itch disappeared a long time ago, and now the project just exists. I have different goals now, and different needs. So while I hate to admit it, I am tried…
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War§ow for the Win!
Refactoring code and sending out resumes can get boring after a while. And while working inside of KDE 4 with all its prettiness and ease-of-use helps one be more productive… sometimes you need to be unproductive to be productive. Trust me it makes sense. Its like a zen koan or Ancient Greek paradox. Thats where…
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Digging Out of Self-Made Holes
Right before the end of last year, I made a number of “blue sky” goals for 2008. Unfortunately I fell into a number of self-made holes from last year, that basically prevented me from moving forward. To make things worse, I realized no single “thing” would resolve or complete even part of one of those…