Jonathan Blandford

Mon 26 Feb 2001

hacking (AisleRiot2): Spent most of the day hacking on AR2. Dunno where the day went. Anyway, I fleshed out a lot more of the design, and even added cool slot types. I took a screenshot at http://webwynk.net/~jrb/files/AR2-2.png of 5 slots: They are (from left to right) Normal, Invisible, Stock, Stock (no more redeals) and Waste. Additionally, there is a slot with a row of cards below, but as I’m not actually drawing the cards yet, you can’t see anything. It’s sizing correctly, though.

I need to get a vector drawing of the 4 suits for those slot types. That would rock really hard! Unfortunately, my artistic skills were stretched by those simple geometric shapes.

I’m getting really tired of the terracotta background image, but it’s a good test.
Web (AisleRiot2): Zana started working on a webpage for AisleRiot. It’s not really pretty yet, but hopefully we can turn it into something.
Luck (Fortune cookie): Got a fortune from a fortune cookie yesterday that said “Now is the time to go buy stocks.” Freaky.

hacking (AisleRiot2): Wheeeeee! I got a start on the new AR card engine. If nothing else, it’s starting to look pretty. Here is a picture of a slot: http://webwynk.net/~jrb/files/AR2-1.png Tomorrow, I’m going to add cards and make them move. They may not actually draw yet, but they’ll move.

doggy: Found a tick on him. Oil didn’t work, so I had to use tweezers as well. Fortunately (for the dog), I got the tick out in one piece, and squished it.
food (lunch): Sarah’s Empanada’s with Zana. She had the fried Yuca root. It was something that’s good to have eaten once.
food (dinner): Went to Panzanella with Zana, Havoc, Amy, Owen, and Adrian from the Japanese office. Nice meal involving pork and Risotto.
hacking: Finally made some sense of the sizing code in GtkTreeView. Next week, I hope to get keyboard navigation working.
cards: Apparently kpat took the really old card design that Zana wrote for AisleRiot originally and added it as a card front option. They also took my polluted sky background. It was really surreal to see it again. I have my work cut out, if I want to match them in the card-library arms race.

doggy: Fought with a skunk or something. Lost. Ugh. Stinky.
laptop: Got my insurance money today from my stolen laptop. I think I’m going to replace it with a Dell C600. It looks like a reasonably nice one with enough beefiness to actually compile GTK+. (-: I’d like to get something like a car-alarm for the laptop when I get it or some form of additional security. Time to ask Mr. Internet what he thinks…

hacking (GtkTreeView): Spent all day porting Gtk{Tree,List}Store from GtkObject to GObject. This took a lot longer then I expected, at least partially b/c I’m testing a number of untested features in glib. Tomorrow, I’m going to make sense of column widths.
hacking (AisleRiot2): Worked more on the rewrite the card engine. Unfortunately, got distracted ‘testing’ the old one. Nevertheless, made some progress. As soon as I get something functional, I’ll post it/put it in CVS.
table tennis: Fought Bryce to 19-21 twice. One of these days I’ll beat him.
bomberman: Got totally schooled by Dr Mike and Havoc. Just one of those loser-days, I guess.

hacking: Played with AisleRiot2 some more tonight. Zana’s been whipping out the games, so I feel like I should be working on the backend some. I gratuitously made GDeckSlot a widget, so that I could reuse the keyboard handling code in GTK+. I may revisit this decision in the future, but it works for now.
kitchen: I bought new containers for everything two weekends ago. I finally got around to filling them, recently. There’s something just cool about having a little stoneware bottle that says ‘Oil’ holding olive oil. I guess I’m just easily pleased.
i18n: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO ME! Pretty cool, despite having gone from novel to overplayed in less then half a day…
music: We seem to be in the process of acquiring a piano from Zana’s parents. I wonder if I can still play.

hacking (GTK+-HEAD): Did a bunch of small things to the tree widget yesterday. It was therapeutic to actually work on GTK+ again, as opposed to doing config tools. I found I had forgotten half my C. I kept leaving ‘;’ off the end of the lines, and tried to put a ‘print’ statement in my code. I did a bunch of small changes to the tree, including foolishly accepting a patch from alexl. Owen pointed out that his object, while being a neat feature, could probably be implemented easily in GtkTreeView. Going there to look, I discovered I’d already half done so. Sheesh…
entertainment: Watched Toy Story 2 with Zana. It was very entertaining, and extremely well done.

work (conftools): Did a bunch of work on bindconf this week. Elliot put it in the tree tonight, and it should make its way out to rawhide eventually.
hacking (GTK+-HEAD): I gave some thought to dialog boxes. Bug #50537 has a simple solution, but I was thinking that it would be good to have a GTK_DIALOG_STYLE_ enum that would let you determine the style of the dialog (ie. buttons on the side, no hrule, message, tabbed). Not 100% sure where I’m going with this, but at least we should be able to get rid of the problematic hrule cleanly.
valentines day: I got a foil covered Britney Spears card from dcm to give to Zana. Who knew he was such a Britney fan???? I went with Zana shopping for a DVD player tonight. We were planning on buying one for ourselves as a present, but were overwhelmed by options. It seems like our previously cool TV is incapable of taking advantage of a lot of the features available. Went out to Four-Eleven afterward for dinner. Food was okay, but not great (given the price). Company was good though.

work (conftools): Went to bed at 5:30 last night, but woke up at 11:30 this morning b/c I had so much caffeine coursing through my blood. Zana spent yesterday reorganizing our books. We’re going to need to get another bookshelf.

work (conftools): Finally did the release of apacheconf to testers-list. Got moved to bindconf. Blah. I was hoping to clean up AisleRiot with Zana this weekend, but it looks like I’ll have to punt that yet again. )-:
food: Went to the very cool Indian restaurant with Zana and Owen where Owen and I nerded most of the time. Owen and I both got manly dishes spice at 8 in a scale from 1 to 10. They burnt all the hairs off of my tongue! Anyway, Owen helped me with my homework, so I can hopefully get a bunch of bindconf working this weekend.
clothes: It was too warm today to wear the sweater. In theory it will be 30 degrees (F) on Monday, so maybe I can wear it then.
suckiness (others): This seems to be making the rounds, but it’s pretty funny nonetheless. Someone’s having a worse week then me: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html