Portage Hooks

Now that school is done for the 2009-2010 year, I’m back at it in Neuvoo again. I’m finishing off a long-planned and fairly major addition to portage I call “portage hooks.” The fun thing is I’ve submitted some patches to zmedico and the response has actually been more positive than previous experiences. solar seemed to [...]

Gentoo for Pandora

I have a new project now. It’s called Gentoo for Pandora. It’s pretty easy to figure out what it’s all about, but I’ll summarize for those who don’t know: Gentoo is a distributon of Linux, and it features a very flexible, very powerful package system called portage (though some would say otherwise). Gentoo’s recommended installation [...]

Narvenyl Progress (Summary: Slow)

The supply of time has been continually decreasing at the same time demand is increasing. I’m talking about the combination of holidays, deadlines at work, and other such nuisances revolving around a rather ingenious concept called real life. When it comes to time restricting some of my more fun activities, I generally drop into sarcasm. [...]

I’ve Been Released!

Wow, I can breathe again. I used to be loaded down with so many projects, but they all just vaporized in various ways: Freeniverse: I may start this up again, but I said enough is enough about three months ago and canceled this project. Class-management software (written in PHP): just finished. MMORPGM: Redundant, it’s already [...]

Turning the Page in a Developer’s Life

I’ve decided I really need to move away from Java programming (which I am now, in my opinion, thoroughly learned enough in at this point) and move into C/C++ programming. I’ve started with a little OSS Linux project meant to compete with RPG Maker XP. It’s going to be an interesting dive: I’ll be submerged [...]