Status update.

Well, I’ve really been out of it. Not much has been happening, and there’s not much that I want to rant about.

• I successfully installed OpenWRT on my new wireless router. Though I now have wireless, I noticed that my upload rate on torrents has noticeably declined; and this is after configuring iptables. It’s a low-priority item, and will probably never get resolved.
• The program that I’ve been writing at work has now passed the 10,000 line mark. (that’s a rough count: cat *.cpp *.h | wc ) It hasn’t fit in my head since around the 2,000–3,000 linecount stage, which was quite some time ago. This not only makes it the first program that I’ve ever written that’s more than 1,000 lines, but also my first GUI program. I’ve been working on it since December, and it’s already gone through 1 complete rewrite. I rather satisfied with the current design, and it’s already been able to cope with requirements changes nicely. Because it doesn’t fit entirely in my head, I now have an inkling about what professionals mean by Software Systems Design and Architecture.
• I also wanted to do a linguistic comparison paper for some of the top NXT lego robotics languages, but without the time to actually try out the different languages, and without a robot to test them on, I’ll have to wait for the Lego robotics class at the local college to start up this Fall.