Well to open up this lovely post my girlfriend broke up with me Wednesday. On top of that I was stood up on Thursday by my friend Amy. The movies have been rescheduled!
Anyways now that that's over and done with, Minecraft. Minecraft, if you don't know is a wonderful game where you break blocks to create stuff. I really don't know how else to put it, I would describe it as a creative dungeon horror game but I'm sure some would beg to differ. I've been playing Minecraft on my own server with usually 1-4 people for days, today actually was my first day not playing.
In other Minecraft related news, the beta starts on the 20th so I recommend purchasing it before this date as it's only 10 euros and it will be about 15 euros on the 20th. Also along with this current discounted price, right now you can buy gift codes for your friends or family which count as an alpha account! An alpha account gives you all the later updates / expansions free!
In less advertising sounding Minecraft related news, Notch (The main developer of Minecraft) is releasing a developer API. Hopefully this will let me fix all the bugs so I may have a bug-free server because it doesn't look like Notch is going to learn how to network code properly anytime soon (Over 5 security flaws I can just note off the top of my head).
Rdio is also something that's been a fairly large part of my life. It's the first of it's kind in the music streaming industry to hit Canada. I know it costs $5 a month and here in Canada we're pretty used to just downloading our music but if you have the money to spare, toss them $5 and check it out. It's a fantastic website and they're constantly adding new content, on top of this they're working on a developer API! When this API is finished I don't think there will even be a reason to not use rdio. I plan to develop and release an application using this API.
Anyways aside from that (mostly) just personal untechnical stuff. I've written POS (Point of sales) software for Midland Computer Connection, and I'm currently coding upgrades (All in Python of course). If anyone reading this can code I recommend coding POS software as it is fun and many (most) businesses need this. I'm also writing a script to install Arch Linux and format it to look similar to Mac using the Gnome desktop environment.
I hear I'm going to be put into a contracting company where I should be getting more contracts to play with. As for my security contracts my date is "before Christmas hopefully", wonderful.
Welcome to the person following my blog. I forget your name but I'm glad you find my blog interesting, apparently other people do too.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Security Software
Okay I've been negotiating some pretty large security contracts lately ($20 000+), and I've been developing some software for the local computer store here (POS software and an Arch Linux install script). I guess developing games isn't where the money is after all. I still plan on developing games, maybe after these security contracts settle down I'll develop PixelWorld or an (MMO)RPG. We'll see, I can't wait to get my security software out there I hope it changes the way people view internet security...This is designed to never be reversed or cracked on a software or a hardware level.
After I get my first large contract I hope to move out into a house. I'm currently living with my friend Brandon, his brother Michael, and his father John. In this house I'm picturing an XMas tree, an LCD TV, a NES, and Eggnog + Vodka. What more do I need?
On another note, I also plan on doing not just network security but local security as well. My securities don't just involve encryption (In fact the network based ones involve very small amounts of encryption), so that just adds to the fun. I hope some hackers stand up and offer to test out my security because I myself cannot crack it and we're gonna be getting in a university student or two to attempt.
The current estimated time is it would take 10 million computers 3 years to retrieve one month's worth of data from one client in a perfect situation. As pleasant as this is to hear I would actually beg to differ. With a linguistics expert I would estimate that with only 10 000 computers it would take 6 months to get 1 month worth of data from one client in a perfect situation (The perfect situation is important). However I plan on increasing the security to hopefully make it take something like 100 000 computers 12 months with 3 linguistics experts. And that's just the chat protocol. Expect heavier security later on, the only issue is I wouldn't want to sacrifice speed too much but I think I may have it fixed enough to actually constitute the "10 million computers 3 years" estimate.
After I get my first large contract I hope to move out into a house. I'm currently living with my friend Brandon, his brother Michael, and his father John. In this house I'm picturing an XMas tree, an LCD TV, a NES, and Eggnog + Vodka. What more do I need?
On another note, I also plan on doing not just network security but local security as well. My securities don't just involve encryption (In fact the network based ones involve very small amounts of encryption), so that just adds to the fun. I hope some hackers stand up and offer to test out my security because I myself cannot crack it and we're gonna be getting in a university student or two to attempt.
The current estimated time is it would take 10 million computers 3 years to retrieve one month's worth of data from one client in a perfect situation. As pleasant as this is to hear I would actually beg to differ. With a linguistics expert I would estimate that with only 10 000 computers it would take 6 months to get 1 month worth of data from one client in a perfect situation (The perfect situation is important). However I plan on increasing the security to hopefully make it take something like 100 000 computers 12 months with 3 linguistics experts. And that's just the chat protocol. Expect heavier security later on, the only issue is I wouldn't want to sacrifice speed too much but I think I may have it fixed enough to actually constitute the "10 million computers 3 years" estimate.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
A Well Deserved Update
Well I'm actually working on another project now...It's a 2D isometric pixel social game to be written in Java. My coding team consists of my good friend Piggy...Graphics consists (at least for the alpha) of my good friend Nova. A good way to describe it (Though I'll post a FULL description in a couple weeks or so) would be Second Life meets Habbo Hotel.
My XBox360 game TBH will probably never get finished unless the 360 stays a while because I'm probably gonna push it back 6 months. Coding-wise there is honestly not much left to be done and I do plan on finishing it but it's not for certain it will land on the 360.
A little personal touch to this blog, I'm psyched to be working on this project though I dislike Java. Sadly I'll probably be doing most of my coding on Windows and due to personal issues the real work starts tomorrow. Maybe soon I'll have a Twitter with actual consistent updates because I feel like that's better than an actual blog for the little development things.
As for people requesting for my old Wii channels to be done better...I'll probably get around to that in about a month and update my posts on the popular forums.
Hope to post more often!
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My XBox360 game TBH will probably never get finished unless the 360 stays a while because I'm probably gonna push it back 6 months. Coding-wise there is honestly not much left to be done and I do plan on finishing it but it's not for certain it will land on the 360.
A little personal touch to this blog, I'm psyched to be working on this project though I dislike Java. Sadly I'll probably be doing most of my coding on Windows and due to personal issues the real work starts tomorrow. Maybe soon I'll have a Twitter with actual consistent updates because I feel like that's better than an actual blog for the little development things.
As for people requesting for my old Wii channels to be done better...I'll probably get around to that in about a month and update my posts on the popular forums.
Hope to post more often!
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
2DCodenamelessActionRPG
I'm writing a 2D Top-Down Action RPG for the XBox 360 (Maybe for Windows as well)! Feel free to check out the testing forum at http://codenameless.proboards.com/. This is my first non-opensource project however community contributions are still appreciated.
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