Plan for Mike Stoddart
by Mike Stoddart · 07/19/2003 (7:35 pm) · 8 comments
The job offer was signed, sold (at least my soul was!) and delivered back to Nav Canada, my future employer. I start the new job on Sept 15th, which is a few weeks away but not really that many!
It's been a really busy week; we've been gathering quotes from movers, although we've managed to throw quite a lot of stuff away already. I think we managed to halve my book collection (novels etc) - oh my broken heart! Luckily my CD collection remains intact, although I did throw away half of my cassettes, most of which I'd forgotten I still had!
We've spoken to just about everyone that needs to know we're moving back to Ottawa, which was quite exciting. When you leave a city with no immediate expectations of moving back, you leave behind some good friends. So when you call them up one day out of the blue and say "we're moving back in 6-8 weeks", it really makes you feel good knowing you'll see people again.
In my spare time (ha!) I've been catching up on some old PHP development I was doing. I am trying to create an OO framework around PHP to reduce application development time. It's interesting and not too taxing, as I've been writing a Wiki using my framework as the test application. When things are working on my development server it's quite cool as I find the whole Wiki concept fascinating. A bare bones examples can be seen at pixellent.stodge.net. You can login with username fred and password fred.
Anyway I'll be putting aside my Torque development for a while because of the move. All my code is archived onto CD and hopefully I'll get back to it in the future. I know that WW2 FPSes are a dime a dozen, but it's still one of my favourite types of games, and one day it will be done. Oh yes, it will be done!
Before I forget, if anyone in the Ottawa area has opinions from experience of ADSL or Cable internet providers, let me know. I presume the choice is only between Rogers and Sympatico but hopefully there are others. From what I remember, they've vastly reduced the download speed (bandwidth?) for their subscribers, which will be a great comedown from the 400k/s that I can sometimes get with Shaw here in Alberta.
It's been a really busy week; we've been gathering quotes from movers, although we've managed to throw quite a lot of stuff away already. I think we managed to halve my book collection (novels etc) - oh my broken heart! Luckily my CD collection remains intact, although I did throw away half of my cassettes, most of which I'd forgotten I still had!
We've spoken to just about everyone that needs to know we're moving back to Ottawa, which was quite exciting. When you leave a city with no immediate expectations of moving back, you leave behind some good friends. So when you call them up one day out of the blue and say "we're moving back in 6-8 weeks", it really makes you feel good knowing you'll see people again.
In my spare time (ha!) I've been catching up on some old PHP development I was doing. I am trying to create an OO framework around PHP to reduce application development time. It's interesting and not too taxing, as I've been writing a Wiki using my framework as the test application. When things are working on my development server it's quite cool as I find the whole Wiki concept fascinating. A bare bones examples can be seen at pixellent.stodge.net. You can login with username fred and password fred.
Anyway I'll be putting aside my Torque development for a while because of the move. All my code is archived onto CD and hopefully I'll get back to it in the future. I know that WW2 FPSes are a dime a dozen, but it's still one of my favourite types of games, and one day it will be done. Oh yes, it will be done!
Before I forget, if anyone in the Ottawa area has opinions from experience of ADSL or Cable internet providers, let me know. I presume the choice is only between Rogers and Sympatico but hopefully there are others. From what I remember, they've vastly reduced the download speed (bandwidth?) for their subscribers, which will be a great comedown from the 400k/s that I can sometimes get with Shaw here in Alberta.
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#2
07/20/2003 (3:43 pm)
Thanks Yacine; looks like that website is pretty useful.
#3
www1.magma.ca/residential/highspeed/prices.html
One more thing; any recommendations for moving companies? The last one we moved with was recommended to us but were horrendous.
07/20/2003 (3:56 pm)
I found Magma, which looks interesting:www1.magma.ca/residential/highspeed/prices.html
One more thing; any recommendations for moving companies? The last one we moved with was recommended to us but were horrendous.
#4
I'm in Ottawa and actually have a low budget FPS in retail using another 3d engine. When work clears up and you are wanting to get back to the FPS's genre and game dev. in general -- give me a shout since I'm going to be local to you..
Martin
07/20/2003 (11:45 pm)
Hey Mike,I'm in Ottawa and actually have a low budget FPS in retail using another 3d engine. When work clears up and you are wanting to get back to the FPS's genre and game dev. in general -- give me a shout since I'm going to be local to you..
Martin
#5
07/21/2003 (6:49 am)
Hi Martin, thanks for the offer; which engine are you using?
#6
Btw, all ISPs that offer ADSL in Ontario and Quebec use Bell's COs, so it's only the backbone access that differs, and the customer service, which with Bell's sympatico could not suck more :)
I've been with Magma since February, and I don't have a single complaint. Plus, they have two spam filtering apps before email hits your inbox (Brightmail and SpamAssassin)
hth
07/21/2003 (8:15 am)
In Ottawa, Toronto or Montreal : get Magma ADSL, they rock and you get unlimited bandwidth at night (00:00-7:00)Btw, all ISPs that offer ADSL in Ontario and Quebec use Bell's COs, so it's only the backbone access that differs, and the customer service, which with Bell's sympatico could not suck more :)
I've been with Magma since February, and I don't have a single complaint. Plus, they have two spam filtering apps before email hits your inbox (Brightmail and SpamAssassin)
hth
#7
Cheers
07/21/2003 (9:43 am)
Cool Nicolas; thanks for the information. I've bookmarked Magma's website so I'll definitely consider them.Cheers
Torque Owner Yacine Salmi
I remember about 2 years ago when I was looking for a high speed alternative to rogers and sympatico in Toronto, and I could find nothing. But I did find a company in Ottawa which offered much higher rates of transfer, no cap, static ips, and didn't have any issues about running servers. You have options in Ottawa so make sure you look into it before jumping with the big boys.
And congratulations on your new job