Jay McGavren's Journal

I know of at least 3 people in the last 3 months (including my father and my father-in-law) who have gotten viruses, and their solution was to go purchase a new computer.

Anti-virus software needs to be easier to use, and it needs to be more effective. Failing that, it needs to be easier to wipe a hard drive and reinstall Windows. And people need to be educated on all of the above. Why are there still no computer Q&A-type shows on the major TV networks? I would think they’d get substantial ratings with a minimal budget.

Just hacked my way through a gnarled jungle of shell script, SQL, and 4GL in a single day. (I’d never have been able to keep it all in my head otherwise.) Feeling pretty accomplished.

Of course, a gnarled jungle of Java awaits me for the rest of the week as I try to design something that will play nice with my host app…

Remember those kamikaze guys with the bombs in Serious Sam? Well, that’s what my Halo technique has been reduced to.

EEEEEYYYYAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHThoom!

I rush the crowd of Brutes (I counted at least a dozen) and their #$@!@##$@ tank, toss my two grenades (bad guys fly every which way), and then kill as many as I can with my assault rifle before I’m shot from 3 sides at once. (It takes the AI a moment to realize that I actually am being that stupid.) Respawn at Diana’s sniper nest (with 2 new grenades), repeat.

I’ve allowed myself to be sloppy, just because my predecessor was sloppy. It’s starting to bite me in the ass.

No more. This software will be rewritten and refactored until I can sleep soundly at night. I don’t care whose toes get stepped on.

wxRuby: Painting a device context...

We pass Wx::Window#paint a block which will be called with a device context to paint on. Then we hook this into Wx::Window#evt_paint so it’s called whenever a repaint is needed.

This is a bit simpler than Ruby-Gnome2 so far…