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With the Dice Services migration complete and the Services/Crucible API protocol working nicely, it’s time to get back to work on the wargame desktop application, named Table (short for Game Table). Without going into a technical rant that I’ve been bothering my close friends and family with for the past 3-4 days, I hit a…
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 ReadingI added timeout handling to the dice services. So, if the network drops packets for some reason, a timeout handler will re-enable the roll submission button. Right now, the timeout is 10 seconds, which is an eternity when you’re on the Internet, but sometimes the server needs the time to handle your request. I still…
Continue ReadingI completed the initial unit testing and bootstrapping of the TOCS User database. My account, and Paul’s, are up and active. Among the various usual suspects in such a database, I added a roles field. This field will define certain roles within the TOCS system. By default, this field will be 0 for all users…
Continue ReadingAfter a solid week of hardcore wargaming at the ConsimWorld Expo, I’m back home working on Brick Mill Games projects. The less-than-optimal wifi experience at the Tempe Mission Palms hotel has impressed upon me the need to build in some network communication error handling code to the dice roller, and my other interactive projects as…
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…
Continue ReadingThe Brick Mill Games’ Dice Service migration will occur on Sunday, 17-June. During the migration, the dice services will down for a (hopefully) short time. Once the migration is completed, the KenWare site will no longer be functional from a dice rolling point of view. The ability to reference log files will still be active…
Continue ReadingThis is going to be a quick post as I’ve only just returned from a European vacation. The Britannia Battle Resolver is working on the server. I need to fully test every sort of battle permutation, but the server-side code is working just fine. Server logs are being collected and displayed on the client-side via…
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