Developer Diary # 1

I find the thought of calling myself a developer kinda funny as I have not yet actually published or made any programs yet that people use. I do plan on changing that however. I have begun going over an old game that I was making once for browsers called "Alpha 07". It is a PHP game. Of course when I look back at it now it was crazy the amount of things that I was doing incorrectly in it.

And so, now I have begun the game again... this time I am using what I have learnt in college and I am implementing classes and writing tester classes. Interestingly when I wrote a tester class to test the class that I had written for me spaceship I realised that I had written so many things in a really bad way and it was really confusing.

That was only my first class! I am now going to write a person and world class next but already I have learnt things from my little amount of experience from writing the first tester class.

Oh well, back to work.

Test Your Browser... HTML5test.com

Hi there.. it has been a while since i was on and I missed it alot. Enough of that! Onto browser testing...

Go to html5test.com and you will be presented with a page telling you how well your browser can handle HTML version 5. Why would you want your browser to handle html 5? Well version 5 supports alot of things that make your web experience better... alot better when it is implemented.

So on my computer I have Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome... I have not updated all of the browsers yet and I have run the test to see how they do before and after latest versions of the browser. Now remember the following... these marks are out of 500... ahem Microsoft....

I don't know what version exactly this is.. What is Version compared to Update Version? Stupid Microsoft!

• Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 - 138 plus 10 bonus points!
• Mozilla Firefox v16.0.2 - This got 372 plus 10 bonus points.
• Google Chrome Version 25.0.1364.152 m 463 plus 10 bonus points 

Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 - 138 plus 10 bonus points!

Damn thats kinda crap! Microsoft really bad...

Mozilla Firefox v16.0.2 - This got 372 plus 10 bonus points.

Firefox did ok....

Google Chrome Version 25.0.1364.152 m 463 plus 10 bonus points 

Google Chrome did very well...

So then I attempted to update the 3 tested browsers again to see what would happen... lets see if the scores improved or got worse!

Before

• Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 - 138 plus 10 bonus points!
• Mozilla Firefox v16.0.2 - This got 372 plus 10 bonus points.
• Google Chrome Version 25.0.1364.152 m 463 plus 10 bonus points
• Google Chrome on my Samsung Galaxy S3 Android version 4.1.2  - 417 plus 11 bonus points.

After

• Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 - Do not know how to update browser easily.. fail again MS
• Mozilla Firefox v19.0.2 - This got 393 plus 10 bonus points. - Up 21 points!
• Google Chrome Version 25.0.1364.160 m 463 plus 10 bonus points - Same score...
• Google Chrome on my Samsung Galaxy S3 Android version 4.1.2 - Didn't test yet...

Conclusion...
Keep your browsers up to date.. this test shows how updating can be very useful .. not only from the obvious security point of view but also from the experience you will get from your daily browsing... 

Star Wars Episode 7 2015

First off a figure. This is my 400th blog post! Wow...

Ok... lets get some basic math out of the way here...

This is like the 7th of November... so there are 23 days left in November... there are 31 days in December...   so that is so far 54 days. Now we are into 2013 and 2014...  those 2 years is (365 * 2).... finally Star Wars Episode 7 will be out in 2015, and it being a block buster that will make it June... so lets say around half a year into 2015 so that's (365 / 2).

A New (New) Hope....

Now what are we looking at....

54 days  + (365 * 2) + (365 / 2)

or

54 + 730 + 183 = 967....

That's all... I thought that there would never be a new Star Wars film and now I find out that there will be one in a mere 967 days!!!!

Oh freakin yeah....

May the force be with you...

Computer News.... Half Life loaded computer news

Fancy seeing a kind of funny video about a man singing about how all operating systems are rubbish?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/2516-Every-OS-Sucks

In other news....

Gordon... I'm Alyx Vance and I am beautiful... also Mart, if you haven't played the whole Half Life 2 series your not a real gamer!!!!

Gabe Newell has (un)offically talked about Half Life 3!!!!! Rock on! It is code named Ricochet2 and he implyed that it might be out next year!!!! See more on the link below...
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/3647/20120904/half-life-3-update-newell-silence-due.htm

Now, one of the best games ever in my personal opinion is Half Life... it is still a brilliant game today if you played it on Steam but lets face it the graphics look a bit dated at this stage... soooooo.... the group of modders have remade the game and it should be out on September 14th (this year - that has to be added because I was actually waiting for the game for 5 years so far!). Look out for "Black Mesa", thats the name the brand spanking new beautifully new voice acted, new graphicsed up game.

The risk of sorrow.

I realized today that sorrow is something very particular to me. I am not sorry if I stub my toe... I am angry. I am not sorry if I quit my job and tell my lame ass boss to stick it up his ass... I am vengefull. I am not sorry if I get caught by the Gardaí with no tax, NCT or working lights at night time... I am thinking kicking myself that I did not fix my car up sooner.

But when I hurt someone I care about or when some I care about has left me...

then...

I am sorry.

Sorry I did not spend more time with them. Sorry if I screamed at them because I really just wanted to hold them and show them I care. And then there is the greatest sorrow of all. When someone passes away, dies. And you know that you will never again get to speak to that person again...

Sorrow I think is a result of having enjoyed something or someone. A result of loving their company or loving them. With true joy comes the risk of true sorrow. Or is it that where there is no risk that there is no happiness or sadness?

The more you give yourself over to something the more you risk loosing. But boy is the risk worth taking.

Information for everyone?

I just had a moment of clarity whilst making tea for myself.. not regarding tea. It was about something else.

Information.

Some information is for the public and some information is not for the public. I have alot more to say on this but the subject is such a pain in the ass one I would simply rather not, I have written and deleted a few drafts at this point but I deleted them....

*sigh*

Atlas - We are all just floating in space...

Did you ever stop to think for a second about our situation... we are on a rock - floating through space. Sure the rock is big, we find it quite big indeed. But ultimately we are just bags of mostly water on a rock orbiting a nuclear explosion... and us, the exploding sun and a few other planets are just flying through space. We do not know where we are going... we do not know where we came from... unless you agree with the scientific belief that we know where the centre of the universe is using Dopler shift to pinpoint back to where we are flying from. I agree with that belief... or rather, I believe in it.

But ultimately our planet is like a lost child wandering aimlessly forever through freezing cold space.... I like this video because it remind me that we have a choice. We can sit in our offices, working for the man, again pointlessly, aimlessly... or you can party hard - work too of course, but also enjoy life.