So much for regular updating…
Last week I travelled to my parent’s place in the greater Calgary area. While there, a snowstorm hit and the power failed. This seems to be a recurring theme for me and that city. Power came on six hours later, but the internet was down for the entire day.
I find it harder to update my journal when I am at my parent’s place. It is out in the country, so there isn’t much happening. And less so if you are snowed in. I did do a lot of my own programming and have been steadily improving the application.
I did take a few wrong turns. I started working on getting waterflow calculated, but I later decided it wasn’t time yet. I think I need to create support for sub-maps first. It is something I should have implemented earlier, because they affect everything else. So I’m working on that for now. But there is something else in the way; sub-maps are useless if you can’t do any operations on them. So I am working on a feature to increase the granularity of a map or sub-map. Problems are showing up in that the images created are garbage if the original map was too large. I still need to figure out if this is a problem with the image generating code, or if the newly generated map has become defective.
I’m also working on my new job’s code. Right now my wage with them is fairly low; until I get over this probationary period. But because I’m only a contractor, I don’t feel emotionally involved with the code. I see parts that need rewriting to be improved, but if it isn’t something I’m told to work on, I don’t feel like sticking my neck out. Maybe that attitude will change later on, when I feel some ownership. We’ll see.