Sunday, May 20, 2007

I know Code Fu

How this blog was born....

May 20th, 2007 8:35 pm.

At my day job, I work as a software engineer creating games for the Xbox 360 and the POS 3, did I say POS, I meant PS3. Right now we are nearing the Alpha stage of the product, about to go Beta soon and what that basically means is that we have been working 12 – 14 hours a day, 6 days a week trying to get this game done and on the shelves. This is actually better than the last few cycles (years) because there have been times that I have gone to work at 10 in the morning and returned home at 10am the next day. Anywayz, the last few days I have been working exclusively on the PS3, basically wrestling with it, dealing with the GPU crashes etc trying to get a feature that just works on the Xenon (Xbox 360) working on the PS3. And it literally feels like I am fighting with that darn machine to get my job done. Yesterday I finally got it to do one part of what I was trying to accomplish and it felt like I had won a grueling deathmatch with the machine. There I am covered in sweat, but I can still feel the machine mocking me, “You may have won this battle, but you won’t win the war”. In fact, I had to have dinner again after I got back home at midnight last night since fighting with the PS3 was soo physically demanding.

Well in my spare time (or whats left of it right now), I also like to code various different things. Today afternoon, I had planned to start working on a code project that I have been thinking of for the last few days. But I think the last week of constant work took its toll on me and a short afternoon nap at 4pm turned into a 4 and a ½ hour sleep fest to get my energy back. Even as I start to write this now, its only been 10 minutes since I woke up. But anywayz, I woke up and the project I wanted to start was still on my brain and the first thing I thought on waking up was “It's time for some Code Fu”. No idea where that came from, I haven’t watched the Matrix (I know Kung Fu??) in a looong long time, but I think it’s just my subconscious describing the last few days of fighting with the PS3. Or maybe it’s my mind saying “enough sleeping, time for work” albeit more dramatically. Anywayz, the creative side of my brain heard what the other side had just said and was like “That would make a great blog title”. Still in bed I grabbed my UT Starcom VX6700 which has Verizon’s ultra cool broadband access and hit networksolutions.com to check if “codefu.com” was taken. It was, but “codefuTime.com” wasn’t, so I picked that name. I’ve always wanted to start a blog, but never had the time until I decided to just do it about 2 minutes ago. Strange how that works huh?