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                    JOURNAL FOR FRIDAY 22ND DECEMBER, 2017
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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 ;)

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Diddymus


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