Fri, Apr 25th 2008, 15:30

Deadlines  

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or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Free Time

First, I'd like to state, out in the open, that I have now set a deadline for this project. I will have it to "open beta" status as of August 1, 2008. Can it be done? Absolutely. Can I do it? "Yes". Anyhow, this gives me a little over three months from today to get more or less everything done. After that point, the only changes should be small tweaks based on playtesting. With any luck, this aggressive timetable will get me moving and producing like never before.

Coming hot of the heels of that bold declaration, it's time to discuss this week's progress. There are no screenshots. Again. Get over it. However, after extensive tinkering, begging, pleading, and other unspeakable acts, I've gotten the socket functionality I want dropped into VERGE so that I can proceed with my diabolical plans. Yes, that's right; I said sockets. That means this does network stuff. Cool network stuff.

I promise tasty, visual-type updates next week, so stay tuned.

Ben McGraw:  

Spearmint

Who'd you get to socket you up?

Nobody added the threaded ajaxy wget then, eh? 

John Weng:  

Spearmint

Overkill did the sockets, although it still has a few kinks that need ironing out. No one wanted to go anywhere near the threading stuff, but this will get the job done. 

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