Posts Tagged ‘betradar’

New job + curse of the fourth floor

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

September 1. I started working at Bibsys, which is a company that develops library systems.
Teknobyen

This means I can no longer spend the days in my underwear, watching Macgyver dvd’s and playing Neverwinter Nights (I have somehow managed to loose my save games, so my once proud half-orc barbarian is no longer… but there is a seriously overpowered lvl 8 wizard that has taken his place).

I’m also happy to say that “everything” at Bibsys is Java, so my chances of being haunted by php are virtually gone :)

The curse of the fourth floor
the First time I whored my programming services out for money was over at Uninet, I was working on the 4th floor.
My first full time job was over at Intrapoint, where I worked on the 4th floor.
The job after Intrapoint was over at Market Monitor / Betradar, also here I stayed on the 4th floor.. then I was moved to another office which was ALSO on the 4th floor.

Now I’m working at Bibsys, at the 4th floor.. spooky :o

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Bye bye Betradar

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Last Friday was my last day of work at my previous employer Betradar, I only worked there for 5 months, but there was to much php, and I’m not a big fan of sports either.

I was a bit sad to leave, as the people there are really nice, and the place is a great place to work. Unfortunately when you’re a Java zealot, working with php all day makes you rather unhappy :|

Either way, I’ve applied for a couple of jobs and should her back from them this week. I’m also keeping an eye open for anything interesting that might show up.

This however gives me much more time to work on my Star Trek game, so hopefully I’ll manage to dodge real work for some weeks or a month :)

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Back from sweden

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I was in Åre Sweden this weekend, on a company excursion by Betradar (where I’m starting work Friday).
Cabin, Sweden

They had rented a large cabin (250 m2), and around 20′ish employees hang out there from Friday to Sunday. I got to meet some of my soon to be coworkers, and I made some progress on my Star Trek Game (Which has kinda been stuck in development hell for the last two years).

Unlike some of my previous code that I have written, coming back to Trekwars (second rewrite I might add) was very pleasant, good planning and Object Oriented Design seems to have paid off :)

I was able to implement the tick/turn system, and did some GUI work on the galaxy view, and halfway implemented the system view and research view. I also worked a bit on the order system, so given a few more hours of development I think I could actually move fleets of ships around :D

Still much work to be done until the game is anywhere near playable

  • Starship pathing algorithm and order system
  • Server data limiting (The client receives a big map ‘the galaxy’ from the server, currently it sends EVERYTHING, but this will have to be changed so that users cant cheat by reading “secret” data. Also by making a custom user copy the server will enable fog of war, and “distort” information in far away areas where sensor strength/resolution is low)
  • Sensor coverage algorithm (got it worked out on paper somewhere)
  • Planet Build systems (halfway done)
  • Combat resolution (ship to ship + ground combat)
  • Colonization and Starbases + Listening posts construction
  • Social tools (ingame mail + chat)
  • Natural phenomena (black holes, neutron stars, nebula, wormholes, etc..)

It was really fun working on the game again, and hopefully I wont shelve it for so long again. Here are some screenshots showing the GUI stuff done this weekend.

Galaxy view – shows the map with systems and starships
Trekwar galaxy

Star system map – Shows details about a star system, panel to build new structures/ships is not implemented yet. BTW those are temporary planet pictures that I drew in ms paint with my laptop touchpad this weekend, I actually think they are kind of cute :)
Trekwar system

Research View – Only just started this, so it just show your current research tree err.. stack :)
Trekwar research

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I quit!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I quit my job at Intrapoint yesterday.

The reason being that I got a much better offer from another company here in Trondheim named Betradar. The job pays better, and have more Java which I find much more interesting, and I’ll be starting February 1st.

A funny side note:)
A friend told me that some people where I currently work got offended by the Christmas greeting I sent out, which included a link to the song: So long and thanks for all the fish. I’m not sure if this guy is pulling my leg or not, but allegedly some people at work interpreted the lyrics rather verbatim and seem to be under the impression of the following:

  • I have tried to warn them of impending doom
  • I am intellectually superior (well, many of them were PHP “programmers”…) :D
  • The world or the company is about to be destroyed (Damn Vogons and their galactic bypasses)
  • Despite tuna nets I liked most of them, especially the toddlers
  • If I could have a single wish, I would have a tasty fish (common vegetarian craving)
  • My biggest regret is not learning how to sing

I guess that’s what you get for sending out a goodbye / merry Christmas message as a Douglas Adams reference. Actually I’m pretty sure the guy was just trying to play a trick on me (which I kinda fell for, I must admit), as I find it hard to believe that my current co-workers are so extremely imaginative / paranoid :)

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