Up to Main Index Up to Journal for December, 2017 JOURNAL FOR FRIDAY 22ND DECEMBER, 2017 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Where in the world is Diddymus? DATE: Sat 23 Dec 02:14:44 GMT 2017 So much to do, so little spare time :( I’ve only had a little time to work on WolfMUD recently. Most of it was spent getting up to speed with all of the changes I hadn’t committed yet, some of which were a work in progress and only half finished. By the time I’d sorted through everything and worked out where I was and what I was doing I had to put everything aside again. As a result I’ve had little to write about. Note to self: manage your changes and commits better next year! While looking back at the journal to see where I left off last time I realised that I hadn’t committed an index page for November. Unless you had been following via the journal’s latest link as I was writing you wouldn’t have been able to get to all three entries for November. The index page has now been added *sigh* From Christmas till the new year I’ll be off work and plan on spending some time coding on WolfMUD. Sadly it doesn’t look like there will be a Christmas release — but maybe one early in the new year? This year has been quite a busy one for WolfMUD with five releases — v0.0.4 through to v0.0.8 — compared to just three in 2016. A lot of this year was spent debugging issues with data races. Other important changes included a rewritten zone loader, inventories were reimplemented, doors were added — with new open and close commands, new resets and clean up, a new zone was ported from the Java version. There were also numerous bug fixes and improvements along the way. For 2018 I plan on completing the saving and loading of players so that you can have a ‘real’ game at long last. Then I really am going to be writing tests for all the code — something long overdue that I keep promising to do. It’s going to be a long, hard, thankless grind, but worth it — especially when I deicide to refactor huge swathes of code, like the inventories. In non-WolfMUD news, the company I work for has replaced my Moto E (2nd gen) with a Nokia 5. If there is interest I may do a quick review at some point. A special shout out to Jorma for some very kind words, encouragement and for reminding me I need to write more ;) -- Diddymus Up to Main Index Up to Journal for December, 2017