A little bit of everything

A million cuss words later and the 2pi redesign is back in motion.  A long snag when attempting to put it on our hosting has finally been resolved.

Long story short, piggy backing with dlls is a no-go, so I hijacked a defunct subdomain that wasn’t really used, and it works like a charm.

The in-development version of 2Pi can be found at ireview.techfloor.org until it’s ready to take over the 360 throne.  At the time of this writing, I have officially killed the techfloor domain not once, but twice while trying to figure out our problem, and it is currently down (though that’ll hopefully be fixed tomorrow as they fixed it once and should know what to do this time).

This one project has been such a roller coaster. I have ~6 weeks to leave my legacy on Techfloor.

On a lighter note, some friends who have long since graduated and found real world jobs tipped me off to Mercurial, and I’ve been using it, along with BitBucket, on a personal project that’s even less likely to see the light of day than my other personal projects.  I’ve been looking a long time for free, private, project hosting and BitBucket offers one private repository free, which is exactly what I needed, so a thanks to John Nelson and Steven Hook for the tip off to Mercurial.

I like Mercurial a lot more than Git, though it’s hard to say that my opinion is soundly based on reason.  Perhaps my initial use of git, though confusing as it was, planted a seed subconciously so that when I started using Mercurial, everything came easier and more naturally, or perhaps, Mercurial is just easier (some pro-mercurial reading would suggest this).

John Nelson recently put up a list of Hg references, so here’s that. Steve, on the other hand, prefers the route of playing video games and trying to draw real world metaphors. Go back to English Lit class, you llama-loving hippy.

Mercurial has really simplified controlling updates to my code and moving it my server, which is generally less than 10 feet from my laptop that I do the development on.

I’ve also realized I may have a bit of a multi-tasking problem.  I currently sit in front of two laptops, my server, and a television, and often find myself playing two separate video games (one on a laptop and the other on the xbox), watching a movie or tv show on the other laptop, and working on my pet project simultaneously.  I’ll even find myself playing two player on my xbox alone while doing all this.  Maybe it’s all the Coke I drink.

Anyone else have a similar story?

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