So today was spent tweaking all the stuff I did yesterday which they didn’t like. That’s the games industry folks, lots of iterating stuff. Still the reviews keep coming in and all of them are positive. We even have fantastic ratings on the app store.

Walked the dog. Had a salad sandwich. Went to the gym, did pump.

Then started looking into an Android issue which Al is having. His Java VM keeps locking up and producing very weird errors. He’s managed to reproduce it using a command prompt and just running ant.bat debug. Whacking ctrl+c seems to make it go bang and start erroring. I thought it was leaving a JVM running somewhere, but couldn’t find any sign of a process. Looking through the build.xml though there are some interesting comments in there….Al pointed out he’s running JDK1.6, where as I’m running JDK1.7. Now looking in the build.xml file there is a section in there that reads the JDK version number and then forks the JVM if it’s below 1.7. This is what appears to be causing the issue. If I forced it to fork and then hammered ctrl+c, indeed on subsequent runs it gave me loads of Java errors. Opening a new command prompt made no difference. But then I found running ant.bat clean sorted the issue. So it appears to be forking the java app and then interrupting it is causing garbage in the output directories. Couple of solutions….upgrade the JDK or run ant.bat clean (I can probably force all that anyway).

Jamie has been dressing the dog in various scarfs and ties. The dog does not approve and keeps trying to bite them off. I said to Jamie, “Stange isn’t it they never attack their own collar, it must be just like wearing a watch.”. Jamie replies, “yes if they take it off they spend all day wondering where it is.” To which I quip, “and they can no longer tell the time.”. God I’m a comedian.

Must be bath time. Need to ring mother, better open some wine then.

This morning I wasn’t rudely awaken by the radiator gurgling, which means yesterdays balancing, although taking ages, was indeed fairly successful. All the radiators now seem to be getting nicely hot, the waters hot and the boiler isn’t coughing it’s guts up.

So work today was mainly Android again, sorting out a couple of issues to do with compressed files inside pack files. It turns out they aren’t compressed anyway. Sorted out a couple of other little issues. If there are no changes of plan tomorrow I have to look at some audio stuff on iMac, which will be a first.

Walked the dog. Went to the gym and did combat. Managed my 700 calorie exercise budget. Working late on a few things. Then will eat salad and watch crap TV. As I said, nothing really interesting happened.

So spent this morning with quite a hang over. This again is probably due to eating cheese rolls, every time I eat them I get a bad head.

Worked on Android again, file system on Android is a bit odd, all your assets are inside a pak file (which is basically a zip), but we happen to use pak files as well, so you end up with a zip inside a zip which isn’t really a very good idea if you want anything to load within the same decade it started. So now I’m doing a little tool that will take our assets and then unpack the pak file and just put the loose contents in, so just a posh copy.

Walked the dog. Moved the cleaners. Well, not physically, just changed the day so they don’t clash with the new boiler fitting. Went to the gym. Front grill thing on car appears to be loose, like me it’s falling apart, but unlike me it’s only three years old.

The mobile game is out. I don’t want to mix work with personal stuff, I know I babble on about what I’ve been doing during the day, but I do keep it very abstract, I never go into any details for obvious reasons. If you like comics and a certain TV series then you can probably figure it out. It’s had all good reviews so far too…

Time for a bath and may be another hangover in celebration.

So today was spent finishing off testing Android atomics, then creating Android projects for a couple of our other games. This actually was all fairly successful. Had to do a couple of Android changes on one of the games, nothing major.

Walked the dog, she’s always so much easier to walk for a couple of days after she’s been to day care.

Had an odd occurrence this morning, woke up at 5:30, couldn’t get back to sleep. Was too hungry, so let the dog out for a pee then grabbed a sausage roll. Then went back to sleep, no problem. So there we go folks, the cure for insomnia is pork based products.

Got a few more Android bits to do tomorrow, then need to do a bit of research into probability.

Went to the gym, ran, exciting isn’t it. Ate salad (with sausage roll). It’s torture porn night, so will have a glass of wine later. I think the mobile game is announced tomorrow.

So up at the crack of dawn and took the dog to day care. Actually worked out the short route was about twice as long as the long route. Anyway, she was very excited, I was very tired so went back to bed.

Working on Android atomics again. This time I did a bit of research and found that since Arm6K there were indeed 64 bit atomic operations. The problem being that they are not really exposed in GCC and definitely not in the NDK. So out with the ARM manual then out with the GCC manual, as I’d forgotten how to do the inline format. Surprisingly easy to get to grips with. Anyway we now have 64 bit atomics for Android. Move on.

Need to decide what I want to do next after I’ve now finished the main mobile game. I’ve been offered something that may not initially sound interesting, but looking at the tech involved there’s some very interesting stuff there. Anyway, as normal, certainly can’t discuss any specifics.

Put some screws in the bloody mini trunking as I got pissed off with the weight of the cable pulling it off the wall.

This lunchtime I ran, actually enjoyed it, haven’t done cross country in a long time. It was cold, but it was fun.

This morning I was invaded by no less than three cleaners, they came they saw, they almost forgot to empty the bins. No other complaints though.

No response from Paul, so I’ll probably just do the overrun cable myself over the weekend. It’s not creating a new circuit anyway. I texted the boiler man, he’s nowhere to be found either.

So today was another fasting day. Very little modifications to standard diet, except no wine, or sausage roll.

Talking of wine, my decent expensive stuff turned up today. My wine fridge now contains more value than the contents of Jamie’s pants.

So tomorrow is more finishing off stuff and a bit of game design. Back to the gym (Didn’t feel the need to go tonight, due to running), back to dog walking. She really is tired when she comes back, she even fell asleep in the car on the way home.

Oh yes, Germolene. The nose problem I had, been blasting up some of it over the last couple of days, now I’m pleased to say I think it’s fully healed.