Plan for Ed Averill

Time is suddenly not an issue. :-|

Well, joy of joys, I got laid off last week. Half the engineering staff got let go (5 out of 10 people) and I was told that the division won't be taking on any more development work. Guess they're turning into a pure sales-and-marketing operation.. if not shutting down completely! No real surprise, and I got a decent severance package and will get my pension money in a lump sum - enough there to go anbout 6 months without work, if I have to.

The good thing is that this frees up time for me to work on my EFT (Eclipse For Torque) plugins. The Eclipse API is pretty comprehensive, it's been taking some time to wade through it, but I believe I can do just about anything I need to. I'm going to try to develop a mini-game as I develop the plugin set, using my own tools so that I can find weaknesses without having to involve testers until I have something worth testing (lol).

Next week I'll put up a Website for my work, mainly to have a developers blog for now and later for beta releases of the software.