The (not so) Weekly Report

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Wow. It's been a while, huh? I'm going to be doing some work on the pages here but not a whole lot at first. I've moved to Denver, I'm looking for work as a software engineer, and my fiancee broke up with me... yeah, so life sucks. But other than all that I'm doing pretty good. I'm going to get D8 uploaded to my web pages, so that it is handy for those of you who require it. I think I'll be doing some work on that in the months to come. Life has pulled me back to RPGs, so I think I'll delve into that some more.

Programming for fun should be kicking in too. I may be doing work on some character generator type things, or possibly a MOO-like Java game. No idea yet but I need to keep my mind occupied.

And, as a reward for those of you who actually read this page, you can get a sneak preview of the new D8-White (it's been updated a little bit!) And what the hell - check out a new new D8-Blue and the new D8-Violet

WANTED: JAVA PROGRAMMERS

If I get help doing this, the work will progress much faster. I intend to write a lot of the main GUI and most of the character- related classes. What I'd really like help doing is in writing auxilliary components - things like a skill manager, a spell manager, etc. that aren't essential to a working program but awfully nice to have.

These qualifications are must-haves:

An intent to help out, not a 'this might be cool' attitude. Dedication is an absolute necessity, because if I can't rely on you I won't waste anyone's time.
At least a year of Java programming with a good understanding of:
- Interfaces
- Vector, Hashtable, and Properties
- Swing components & Java 2
Good understanding of OO programming, especially polymorphism. I intend to make sure we have a plan as to where we are going - no 'flying by the seat of your pants' coding.
You are avaliable 2-5 hours per week to work on this project. More is great but not expected because that is about what I am limited to myself.

Some things that will make you stand out among others:

You currently are attending college for a CS degree or are a professional software engineer.
Experience using XML as an IO format and as a means of representing data structures.
Experience with writing parsers for CFG's
Familiarity with design patterns.

Please don't send me any code samples or resumes. What I'd like for you to do is send me a URL to your resume (or a list of Java courses you've taken) and some Java code you have written. If you can't do this but have the qualifications I listed above, tell me and we'll work something out.

, 10/28/00, 2:50am