I Must be Mad

Downstairs I have a copy of GTA4. Nico has been out on a date, taken my cousin bowling and killed a few times ("But they were all bad people"). And today, in my so called leisure time, I've spent a few hours writing C#. And having at least as much fun as I did with the video game.

Perhaps it is a control thing. When I'm writing code I not only have complete knowledge of what I'm doing, but I also created the thing I'm working within. I don't know, I'll leave the finer points of character analysis to those who already think I'm a bit strange, and move on.

Anyhoo, the code is coming along nicely. I'm finishing off (or at least moving on a bit) a thing I started ages ago. It uses a Tablet PC to help you mark class work. You fill in a form with comments, grades and suggestions and the program stores all this (including ink) in an XML file. You can then use this to generate a custom web page or set of report images you can send to the students. I've got all the storage and editing story sorted and I'm just finishing off the reporting.

When I've got the system working I'll post it for anyone to play with.

In the meantime I'm having a bunch of fun making it.

Comments

[Ignorant Pom]

OMG, you met Rom?!?!? I mean hea's not quite Quark but...Rom!

[Tautoa]

The second paragraph reminds me of a blog post I read a while back - http://devizen.com/blog/2007/09/11/ruin/

You know it's bad when "I've got to do at least x hours of coding today" becomes "I'm not doing any more than x hours of coding today" :)

[Quaver]

Well, if you're enjoying the coding ... perhaps I could take the 360 & copy of GTAIV off of your hands? ;)