Back on my feet

After a terrible few weeks. Im started to get back on my feet and feeling happy. My work morale has gone up quite a lot, and superiors have started to give me a heavier work load as they see me getting better.

Sadness

My Step father died today. April 10 1949 - August 28 2008. Miss you Greg.

Mom called me this morning @ 7 and told me to come to the hospital, but I didn't make it on time.

Utopia Attack Calculator Screenies

Windows and Mac respectively

If you want to try out the pre-beta go here

Pre-Beta Testers for Utopia Attack Calculator

Utopia Attack Calculator has seen some work put in on it... im nearly ready for some pre-beta testers.

I am looking for people who run Mac/Windows & do not have QT installed.
I am not looking for Linux users at this time.

If you are interested, please sent me an email, or comment on my blog

Please Include
Name:
Operating System:
Email Address:

You DO NOT NEED TO PLAY UTOPIA TO HELP ME! Pre-beta is just to see if there are any problems running the executables

I have the best job in the world

I have the best job in the world. Last week I got moved up from a team working on "in market" devices to the team working on brand new devices. It feels like I've been called up to the NHL after a short stint in the AHL.

True I spend long hours at work, but I love every second of it!

Anywho... Im also being flown to England this coming Saturday after my Graduation... It's going to be a very busy week for me.

Seeker the Dark is Rising

I would rather be raped by an elephant than have to watch that movie again.
I felt like burning my testicles to escape from the pain my eyes were suffering.

This movies only redeeming quality is that Bulimics will appreciate the after-meal regurgitation assistance provided by the cast.

-5 stars.

Qt: Utopia Attack Calculator

So why have I been learning Qt... I've been learning Qt because I play an online war game called "Utopia". Utopia used to be really big with 80,000 people playing on it. On Windows a program called Utopia Angel helps players format and calculate their play.

Utopia Angel is created in a language called Delphi (which I know very little about), is completely closed source and does not run on Linux or Mac unless you use VMware or Wine. Brother Green, the main programmer for Angel has said publically that he will not be making a linux/mac port.

Anywho... Utopia is no longer as successful as when I was in highschool. About 20,000 players play the game now, and formatters aren't really as useful as the game shows you some calculations already. However its still been a goal of mine to create an Angel competitor.

Soo... without further adue here is my version 1 of the Open Source Utopia Attack Calculator (OSUAC).



I need to write some Regular Expressions to scrape the Utopia pages to do formatting... but the OSUAC already monitors the system clipboard (hack needed to be done on Linux because X doesn't share the clipboard like Windows or Aqua).

My Goals are these... To call the program a success
Users: 1000+
Community: 3+ developers, 10+ testers
Programmers must have fun developing the application

So anyway... soon I think I should go to sourceforge and figure out how to share the OSUAC... soon meaning whenever I have some spare time from work (53h last week :) )