Jay McGavren’s Journal

Why are those tiny candy bars you see at Halloween the ‘Fun Size’ ones? Are the bigger ones ‘Cumbersome Size’?

“What do you mean, I have to eat two ounces?”

Driving over a tumbleweed is not good for your car, but it is fun to watch someone else do. The things explode into a million tiny bits. It’s like dropping a bowling ball on shredded wheat.

Finished in 3.329 seconds
127 examples, 0 failures, 89 pending

jay@MINIME:C:\work\zyps
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Of course, there’s still those 89 pending examples, but at least I don’t have that dirty feeling from failing tests any longer.

Amon Tobin – Ruthless
Amon Tobin – Chomp Samba
Alec Empire – Bang Your Head!
Amon Tobin – At the End of the Day
Amon Tobin – Straight Psyche
Amon Tobin – Ever Falling
Amon Tobin – Foley Room

Anyone care to guess what my mood is? >:)

The Zyps network code is fast morphing into a library that could synchronize objects and their properties in any two remote collections… Hrmmm, like iTunes libraries…

Java: log.debug(”Found chain ‘” + chain + “‘ for property ‘” + propertyCode + “‘”);
Ruby: @log.debug “Found chain ‘#{chain}’ for property ‘#{property_code}’”

Those few extra characters may not seem like much, but they actually reduce the amount and detail of log statements I put in the code. They’re painful to type, and worse, painful to read.

Logging is fast taking a place next to unit testing in my essential toolbox. Anything that important needs to be as painless as possible.

…EnvironmentServer and EnvironmentClient are much more fleshed out:

spec_doc.html

The failed examples are supposed to throw exceptions; not sure why the test is failing because of it. Some Googling on RSpec should take care of that.

Wiimote and nunchuk attachment required. (I haven’t used either extensively, so I may be assuming they’re more capable than they are…)

Each control represents one of your arms, which you can position/wave wherever you like. Press a trigger to close a fist on that arm, release it to open the fist. Contact an object with a closed fist to punch it. Close a fist while in contact with an object to grab it and wave it around. Open a fist while holding an object to release it/throw it.

“Object”, by the way, can be a chair, gun, enemy, or whatever else. “Wave it around” can mean use it as a shield, toss it into an enemy, or throw it off a rooftop. This can lead to lovely mechanics like picking up an enemy, smacking him a few times with the chair in your other hand, using him as a human shield against a few bullets, and finally tossing him headlong into the guy that’s firing at you.

Ah, gets my adrenaline pumping just thinking about it. Substitute robots for people if you don’t want an M rating.

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Diana with Guitar