Programming tasks for a slow afternoon

[wtd]

Ever had one of those days that just crawls by? You're bored to tears with no idea what to do?

Well, share with us the programming-related tasks you've come up with for yourself to fill these times.

[Mr. T]

Re-learn Turing after a long hiatus. Although I'll probably get ragged on for doing so.

[wtd]

Nawww... just make sure you follow it up with something else. Variety is the spice of life and all.

VB and Turing do not count as different.

[Cervantes]

Just recently I spent a bit of time working the engine for air craft (triplane, specifically ) movement, in 2D as seen from the side (not top-down).

[Martin]

I've started getting back into C after realizing just how slow Ruby is for contest problems (yeah yeah, 1.9'll be better). And OpenGL. Mmmm, triangles.

[Mazer]

Cervantes wrote:

Just recently I spent a bit of time working the engine for air craft (triplane, specifically ) movement, in 2D as seen from the side (not top-down).

[Mr. T]

wtd wrote:

Nawww... just make sure you follow it up with something else. Variety is the spice of life and all.

I don't plan on doing so any time soon, though.

[md]

I worked all afternoon... you people should get jobs!

I usually work on a game/sim project I've had for a while; C++/OpenGL or maybe a software renderer... not sure yet.

[wtd]

Martin wrote:

I've started getting back into C after realizing just how slow Ruby is for contest problems (yeah yeah, 1.9'll be better). And OpenGL. Mmmm, triangles.

O'Caml, SML, and Scheme (via the various aggressively optimizing compilers like Stalin) will all give you really fast executables, and provide a higher level environment that C.

[Martin]

wtd wrote:

Martin wrote:

I've started getting back into C after realizing just how slow Ruby is for contest problems (yeah yeah, 1.9'll be better). And OpenGL. Mmmm, triangles.

O'Caml, SML, and Scheme (via the various aggressively optimizing compilers like Stalin) will all give you really fast executables, and provide a higher level environment that C.

But I like C. Call me a control freak, but the thing I liked the least about Ruby is how it's almost too easy to do a lot of things. I'd prefer things to be broken down into three steps than being just one, if only to see what's really happening.

[Bobrobyn]

On the weekend I went back and fixed some bugs and added music into my ol' frogger game...but that really wasn't much, I was just extremly bored. There's only one more bug to fix, fortunatly. That'll be for another day when I'm bored, hehe.

[codemage]

If it's a really dead day with nothing to do, I check freelance advertisements and see if there's any quick mercenary work available.

Polish skills & learn new ones & a few bucks on the side.

If it weren't for the alarming and increasing number of Indian, Chinese & Slovakian programmers out there, it'd be more than a few bucks, too.

[rizzix]

Martin wrote:

But I like C. Call me a control freak, but the thing I liked the least about Ruby is how it's almost too easy to do a lot of things. I'd prefer things to be broken down into three steps than being just one, if only to see what's really happening.

I don't think you have the right mindset when using Ruby... =/

[wtd]

Martin wrote:

wtd wrote:

Martin wrote:

I've started getting back into C after realizing just how slow Ruby is for contest problems (yeah yeah, 1.9'll be better). And OpenGL. Mmmm, triangles.

O'Caml, SML, and Scheme (via the various aggressively optimizing compilers like Stalin) will all give you really fast executables, and provide a higher level environment that C.

But I like C. Call me a control freak, but the thing I liked the least about Ruby is how it's almost too easy to do a lot of things. I'd prefer things to be broken down into three steps than being just one, if only to see what's really happening.

Perhaps on a slow afternoon you could learn to use the Ruby C API? Best of both worlds.

[Clayton]

i work on learning and expanding my skills (right now working on *gulp* OOT) to get me through the day