Plan for Ed Averill

Sound and fury, signifying..

Plenty of goings on. I'm working on finalizing the design document for the Eclipse for Torque (EFT) project and trying to put together a page on my website. Progress has been slowed a bit by a sudden flood of interviews, but i'm not complaining (lol).

Also purchased the RTS Starter Kit, there was too much good stuff there that'll make my life easier for this simple RTS I'm considering, and who can beat the price?

Invested in a couple of books, one on writing Eclipse plugins, the other on SWT/JFace, which is a GUI component library that's used in Eclipse. Those will arrive from Amazon either 12/10 or 12/13. The online docs for Eclipse are OK, but I like to have something I can refer to sitting next to me while I'm cranking out the code. I'm old-fashioned, I guess!

I'm vacillating on which compiler(s) I should set the EFT plugins up for. Mingw/msys seems like a no-brainer choice, but there are free command-line compilers from Microsoft that appear to be pretty decent, the latest one supporting .NET development as well.

Annoying thing: I don't have Linux installed to test this all on, which is a bother. I might have to find a way to get a copy, repartition my machine, and add a Linux partition to it. I'm not even thinking about a Mac version of this at all, mainly because I don't know anyone that owns a Mac and I'm clueless about how the Mac works. Maybe once I'm done some enterprising soul could work on a Mac port, but it's months before I have to worry about it.