It’s been a while
It feels like its been forever since I posted on my blog. I’ve been very busy rolling our the new CMS for the department of computer science at the University of Pretoria. The system was a complete rewrite of the legacy system we had in place. That old system was falling apart and was tearing at the seams for the last year. The rewrite took me and the two part time guys at work around 2 and a half months to complete. It’s around 90% complete and sitting at over 17000 lines of code. I’m now taking the next few days off to recoup since I’d been working 65+ hour weeks for the last month.
What are my plans for this year? Well I’m starting my masters, I’m lucky that the masters here is a research masters and involves no coursework. I’ve selected a topic with some help from some developers in the game industry (huge thanks to Chris Jurney), I’ll be doing my masters on pathfinding in destructable environments. I’m also going to continue working on the DPT, and trying to apply it to real world problems (I’m currently busy using it to do automatic alaysis of aerial photos).
I’m going to carry on with my DX10 tutorials, and try and get a good solid background in graphics as well as AI. I’m planning on trying to make a small complete game this year just to have something I can show case. There is also one last pet project that has been on the back burner for over a year now, I’m finally gonna sit down and complete the design document for my idea of a post-apocalyptic RPG.
I’ll hopefully be posting a new dx10 tutorial or my work on aerial photographic analysis within the next week or so!
Bobby – over and out!
Bad start to the new year!
So i just returned from my trip to the USA. I presented a paper at the ICPR (international conference on pattern recognition) conference. The trip was amazing, it’s been my first vacation in close to 8 years. I really managed to unwind. While i was there i saw a gtx260 core 216 video card for $300 which is around $150 cheaper than here and i couldnt resist. Buying the card meant that i could move my 8800gtx to my work machine and have two high end workstations instead of one, so i did.
The card worked beautifully until yesterday when i rebooted my machine and the card was dead! FUCK! So now i have to go through the process of an international RMA with eVGA (thankfully they have that option). Sigh… I cant seem to catch a break 
Bobby Anguelov
I started this blog mainly as a distraction from my work and studies and also as a place where i can put up easy to read, simple tutorials on subjects which are often made to seem more complicated than necessary. I hope to get a chance to blog about all aspects of my work and interests over time…Donate To Bobby
