Outtatown so far September 27, 2009

Yeah…

So, here’s what’s been going on in outtatown so far this year…

Firstly, we went to Camp Assiniboia, just 30 minutes from winnipeg.  There, we mainly got to know each other, play games, etc.  We also had some sweet class/session things with Pierre, one of the profs from CMU(I think).

I beat Jeff, one of our leaders at Settlers, and he was pretty devastated about that.  Also, we did some horseback riding, which was pretty sweet.  But the biggest thing that sucked about that week was that there are soooo many mosquitoes there.

Anyways, after that week, we headed off to Manitoba Pioneer Camp, Lake of the Woods; however, it’s actually in the westmost part of Ontario and its actually on Shoal lake.  Its also on an island, which was pretty sweet to explore before we headed off on our canoes.  Also, we got to meet up with the South Africa site, who was on their way out, having finished their canoe trip.  We got to eat lunch with them, and I met angus, who relieved me of my need for geek talk.  I think that I did the same for him as he mentioned that it was nice to get his weekly dose of geek.  Anyways, we talked about our preferred OSs and Linux distros.

The canoe trip was pretty sweet.  The food was way better than any other camping food i had.  The waves were big.  I saw beaver huts.  Explored a mine.  Pooped in the bush.  Sweet week altogether.

And just now we finished our first nations experience at the roseau river reserve with the anishinabe people.  Changed my entire perspective on First nations people.  We also went to an old mennonite village, Neubergthal.  One of the houses there that has been updated is pretty much the house of my dreams.  Yup.

And now we’re at a retreat centre in Pinawa, doing the same thing we did ag Assiniboia.

That’s all for now!

CMPT 275 is horrible March 29, 2009

I will never know why you’re expected to use the mass of useless documentation to complete an implementation in 2 weeks.   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG.  I’m stressed.  I wish we could use TDD or some other kind of sane dev model that’s nothing like waterfall.

Procrastination March 25, 2009

I’ve gotten into the habit again, but most people probably lapse in it too.  I’ve wasted alot of time.  And it sucks.  So, yeah, this is another rushed daily

Ummm March 18, 2009

I had an idea of what to write when I was falling asleep last night, be now i’ve forgotten.  Oh well, I need to write something for my CMPT 376 daily, so this is it.

Java and its wonderful graphics class March 16, 2009

I could probably implement an entire windowing system using just java Graphics2D primitives.  They’re so useful, probably one of the best things designed right inside a language.

However, word wrap is a fairly annoying thing, but at least I found a code snippet that outlines it better than my original idea here.  It’s kinda ugly, but still not nearly as ugly as what you have to hack with c strings.

Here’s my slightly different implementation; it’s still pretty much the same, and i’m still gonna tweak it a bit more.  I’m just glad it works.

Snow and translink March 9, 2009

I love snow.  Some people saw they love snow, but only on the mountains; however, I love snow anywhere.

However, I dislike people who are incompetent around snow, nameliy translink.  My bus to get up to SFU today was half an hour late, straight out of the station.  Also, when a bus is that late, it’sll get extremely slowed down during the route, so it arrived 45 munutes later than it should have been, effectively doubling the trip time.

At least I didn’t have my midterm during my first class, and Brad Bart is apparently going to repeat the lecture on Wednesday.

Hello world, March 4, 2009

says my server.

I set up DNS and port forwarding stuff on my server so now I can connect to it from the internet!  Yay.

It probably won’t be online most of the time, and all that’s there is a php test page and connection for me to ssh when I’m bored.  And I’m not telling you the ssh port.  It’s not 22.

Yawn March 2, 2009

I enjoyed my weekend.   This is really just another placeholder for a CMPT 376 daily.

I still hate C strings February 25, 2009

I present: substrings

char str_pid[strlen(msg_in.buf)-2];
sprintf(str_pid, “%.*s\n”, strlen(msg_in.buf)-3, &msg_in.buf[3]);

It’s just so ugly, why can’t they at least provide a sane substring class

God bless C++.

Java gui layouts February 23, 2009

The default Java gui layouts are horrible, Qt’s makes way more sense. I wish I could use Qt Jambi for my cmpt 275 project, but noone else cares enough to not use swing