Blog of Josh "Renanse" Slack

Updates and commentary from the depths of a 3d Java code spinner's mind.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

FurBallz Available

After about a month of procrastination (actually I've been just plain overworked... that and a bit of World of Warcraft) I've finally put together a webstart for FurBallz and a src bundle. Around the time I got that together I noticed javagaming.org had this on their front page!

fantastic... or fanatic?

fantastic... or fanatic?

First time that I can recall my being called "Fantastic", but there ya go...

Enjoy! Have a go at FurBallz!

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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Yep, still here

Day to day life really caved in on me since my last posting, so I took a bit of a break from the extras in life to focus on as few things as possible. My grandmother went in for some heart evaluations for potential surgery, my brother was in a car wreck, another brother broke some bones in sports and finances have been interesting.

I guess the major update in life is that I'm moving house in about 2 weeks. Jeni and I were looking for an investment property because the market has been insane here in the valley. Our thought was to buy a place to rent out but it turned out differently, so now we are moving into a different house. Ah well, it should be a fun adventure.

So yes, life has been crazy but I'm still here.

jME:

Over the last few weeks there has been a number of updates to jME in cvs. The biggest one perhaps is an upgrade to using lwjgl version .96 and a revamp of our Swing support making it much cleaner. There are also a number of small bugs now squashed and some exciting third party developments (blender support, doom3 model support, some new games and more additions to the jme-physics library.) All in all, good stuff.

So, what happened to jME's .9? I'm predicting a May/June release for that. Mark will be done with classes and I'll have finished moving. Stay tuned.


ASU:

I'm not sure what's going on here. Everytime I start back in on this goal, life takes a big detour and makes it impossible to spend the time necessary to go back to school. Maybe I'll need to wait for an early retirement? hehe. Seriously though, I wish they offered BS classes all online so I could finish my degree up. It's not that I really need it to do my work (do they go over useful, real life knowledge in a classroom??? Drop me a line if you know of such an oasis in this dry scholastic desert) I just want the piece of paper.


WORK:

Work is going very well. I can't talk about my projects anymore though, so I guess I'll drop this part of the update until work slows down and I need to gripe again. :)

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