Four Island

You may remember me last month saying that I would release a new version of Tetrgi on March 3rd, but now have seen that I haven't. There is a good reason for this. I'm working on a new project called Xidet

Xidet is a text editor. Now, don't roll your eyes. Xidet is much better than Notepad or VI (well, I guess everything is better than VI) because while at first run, it will look a lot like Notepad with, is it possible, missing features, Xidet contains a modularity system which allows TONS of plugins written for Xidet to be modded in which can give Xidet anything from a simple Edit menu to a tabbed interface or code syntax hightlighting.

Xidet is a very important project. The reason this has anything to do with Tetrgi being late is because I've decided to postpone all other projects until the first release of Xidet is out, becuase I am sick and tired of having to either, for Java, use NetBeans to program (it's really slow), or for C++, use nano, because while I like nano, I need to modify many files at once, which is why the Tabbed-Interface plugin for Xidet will be very important to me.

It was a dark and stormy night. On Feburary* 22nd 2008, a short man wearing a black leather coat that completely enveloped him walked up to a closed internet cafe. He taped something to the door and took two steps back. sssss A hole was burnt into the door. He reached through the hole and opened the door.

He walked up to a computer, turned it on, hacked past the login screen, and used IE to access http://www.fourisland.com. He looked at the Poll of the Week.... and let out a shriek. Someone had already voted from this location. Not only that, but the poll was a completely random one! He'd trekked all the way from Alabama so as to vote on the poll before Saturday, but it was not to be...

OK, that was REALLY random, but that just corresponds with the random poll. Here are the results:

Cat - 1 vote(s)! Dog - 2 vote(s)! Sheep - 0 vote(s)! Penguin - 0 vote(s)!

OK, with that over with, I would like to announce something about Tetrgi 2.1. I have set a release date for it on March 3rd. If anyone has any suggestions, please create a ticket for it in good time, so I have a chance to implement it and don't have to postpone the release.

And, just to compete with the randomity* of both the poll and its accompanying story, here's a random thing I found my XP machine doing yesterday: So do I, Adobe Updater, so do I.

*Note: I do have strange ways of spelling and pronouncing certain words that may seem like mistakes to other people. They were put there on purpose.

Guess what everyone? Two days ago Tetrgi 1.5 was tested on a real Windows computer, and worked. Because a 2.0 release of Tetrgi was planned for when 1.5 could be tweaked to work on Windows, Tetrgi 1.5 and 2.0 had to merge as there were no differences between them. The result is Tetrgi 1.5/2.0, the first stable version of Tetrgi.

You can get Tetrgi 1.5/2.0 at the Tetrgi Downloads page. Have fun!

As you may have noticed, the Projects section seems to have moved around quite a bit. Yes, that's because I've discovered a wonderful thing called Trac. A full-blown project system that allows each of my projects to have it's own Wiki, Ticket System (VERY useful!), Subversion Repository and Viewer, Roadmap (Milestones), Bitten (an extension that works much like Mozilla Tinderbox or Buildbot), a Timeline (Recent Changes) and to top it all off, it's all fully intergrated. From a page in the wiki, you can link to the fourth ticket by typing #4. From a ticket description, you can link to the 13th source commit by typing [13]. And so on!

Trac is a wonderful thing and I'm extremely happy to have found it. If you find bugs in any of my projects, or if you have a feature request, don't hesitate to make a Ticket for it!

Well, the first transfer project has been completed! Well, not really. Single Four (the insane programming language, see its project page for more info) is now pretty much exactly as it was before translation, except now it has UNIX support. Unlike the current state of Tetrgi, the Windows version appears to work.

You can get Single Four RC1 at its Subversion repository. That link goes to the RC1 tag of Single Four.

EDIT: Yes, RC1 has been tested with both HelloWorld programs found on the Single Four project page.

UPDATE: Subversion has been discarded (as CVS was) in the favor of GIT. It will take a while, however, to get the links fixed up again, though.