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I have quite a few things to talk about today, after a seemingly long hiatus from writing posts. Frankly, with Nor’easter XXIV around the corner, there’s still a lot of work to do to get our game client up and running. The good news though, is that we keep making progress. JSCanvas One of the…
Continue ReadingIt’s been far too long since my last blog post. To say that things have been busy, both within and outside Brick Mill Games, is an understatement. For this blog post, however, I will stay on topic and only talk about what Paul and I have been working on. Correctness is Key Regular readers (do…
Continue ReadingOnce again, Paul and I had to extend one 3-week sprint into the next one due to outside influences. Unfortunately, this is what happens when you’re trying to balance day job needs with trying to get a new company off the ground. Truth be told, we were both trying to burn the candle at both…
Continue ReadingSprint #6: Infrastructure Continues Framing TClient was completed today. Although upwards of 15 or so tasks were completed, no full stories were completed. The primary push continues to be in the realm of software development, namely in the development of UI containers and controls that work in a manner that we want. Here is the…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a crazy month since my last post. The transition from relying on a well-known language like Ruby to a brand new one in Swift was not without its moments. Couple that with getting back into GUI programming, trying my hand at using XCode, and learning some new day job technologies (SIMD assembly coding…
Continue ReadingAs part of Brick Mill Games’ efforts to write an intelligent game playing application to handle our double-blind game system, I’ve been developing a Ruby gem to allow Ruby scripts to run a GUI on any of three platforms: macOS/Cocoa, Linux/Gtk3, Win10. The name of this gem, or code library, is Epoxy. As of today,…
Continue ReadingThe date has finally arrived. Stay tuned. Update: The migration of the decades-old random number pipeline from Kenware to Brick Mill Games is now completed. The dice services at Kenware are now disabled.
Continue ReadingThe expected decommissioning and migration of the dice services from the KenWare site to the Brick Mill Games’ site is being delayed. With more last minute testing being done by the KW users, some non-RNG issues are being uncovered. The KW site will not be decommissioned until these issues are sorted out. While I want…
Continue ReadingThe non-blog Brick Mill Games sites now have a new, consistent theme. The background is an “old brick” color, taken from the Resene palette. Site tweaking may occur over time, but I’m happy with the way it looks right now. At some point in the future, the blog theme will undergo a similar update to…
Continue ReadingThe Dice Service migration from the KenWare site to the Brick Mill site did not happen on the 17th as I planned. Last minute testing revealed some bugs in the user interface and a bug in the years-old code in the original implementation. As to the latter, the bug only shows up in an impossible…
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