I have to say after Narendra’s comment on my blog, I’m so so fired up to get 30bots finished (or at least to some sort of useful state) as soon as possible. I’m amazed that he even managed to find my blog amongst the stagnent pile of cack that’s cluttering up the net these days. Bearing in mind I have two coursework deadline’s coming up and my finals at the start of April, I’m gonna make sure I don’t stuff those up. However, I have been working pretty hard on it, trawling through the old Bobsy code, trying to find equivalent functions or better ways of doing things. I’ve actually learnt quite a lot. I think the extreme Java course is paying of because I’ve created a dynamic handler system using the Reflection API (something PHP does quite easily) so people can create customised handlers to extend the basic functionality with custom methods on the handlers (probably sounds like nothing to some people, but when you’ve not really used it before it’s a nice challenge!)
Anyway, fingers crossed I’m hoping to have the empty MSN bot code done by the end of the weekend. Then I’ll do my coursework next week, then I’ll go out for my bday that weekend (rock on!), then I’ll revise for my finals the following week and then I’ll sit my finals. Then I’m pretty much free to finish whatever else needs touching up ove Easter and 30Bots should be with everyone in it’s full form by the end of April. Sod’s law says it won’t (Murphy’s law to any Americans).
