MHGames

Saw The Dark Knight today. Awesome movie! I’m still digesting it, but it feels like a solid *****/***** for me. Now, just waiting for the dvd release..

Just a short post, for a change: Went to see Iron Maiden yesterday, it was great! \m/ Above is a photo I took – one of the few that actually turned out alright..

In addition, I managed to wash my cell phone in 40 degrees Celcius two days ago. It doesn’t work any more.

Oh, and PolyAnim now has some Java Web Start demos up at http://code.google.com/p/polyanim/wiki/WebStartDemos..

Visual Studio Express editions are nice and free, but Visual C++ 2005/2008 Express seem to be lacking in the code completion (or Intellisense as it’s officially known) department. If I recall correctly, in MSVC++ 2003 (version 7.1, that is) Intellisense worked perfectly. When writing new code, Intellisense picked it right away, even without saving the source file. I never had any problems with it.

In MSVC++ 2005 and 2008 (Express editions, I haven’t tried the full featured versions – although I doubt they’d work any better..), the code completion has definitely taken a step backward. It just doesn’t work as nicely as it did in MSVC++ 2003. It seems to parse the source files quite lazily, and sometimes just doesn’t work at all. When given a moment, it works again. I’ve found out that switching between Release and Debug from the toolbar dropdown causes “Updating Intellisense…” to appear in the status bar. That helps, but it’s still not very convenient.

As I recently installed and compiled Qt 4.4, I noticed that Qt classes would not be in the code completion list at all. I included Qt’s include-directory to the “VC++ Directories” in Options. That wasn’t enough. Finally I got it working by including “$(QTDIR)\src” to the “Source files”, and listing all the Qt include subdirectories separately in “Include files”.

Just a quick status update: school is now over (apart from one exam), the application project course that lasted for four months is also finished. I’m glad that it’s done. I’ve started going to work as well.

My sekrit projekt(tm) is proceeding, albeit quite slowly. Today I have coded it a lot, though. It’s still too early to be shown – not that there is anything interesting to show in any case.. Not yet. But fear not: I’ll write about it once it is developed a bit more. ^^

So yes. I’m still alive.

Yes, I’ve started a blog. I’ll try to write here at least somewhat regularly, but knowing me, it’s probably not going to work.. I’m quite busy in school (a software project course going on right now, it’s big!) at the moment, but I should be able to do more this summer. On the other hand, I do have work then and I’m hoping to write my bachelor’s thesis too.. So we’ll see. I have some other plans too, but I’ll talk about them in another post.

And that’s that. I guess this shall do as The First Post(tm).