Hi folks,since I’m leaving for a short vacation in Hamburg till the 2nd of January I just wanted to post some quick works regarding ADOM, JADE and more.

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It’s over…

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Tonight I tried to migrate JADE from developing on my trusty nice Windows notebook to my shiny and fine Macbook. Here’s the summary.

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One thing that really irks me about JADE these days is that it has not been developed test driven. When I started writing JADE TDD still was a silver line on the horizont and testing consisted of the classical “run - check - fix” cycle of development. Nowadays we can do much better. But…

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Hi folks… good news this time: Yesterday (on Friday, 13th, 2009 - Friday, 13th of all days) I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. Now some few more formalities have to be finished and then I will be able to call myself a “doctor”.

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Hi folks!Yes, I still exist Thanks for being patient. Here’s a quick update (I’m sitting in the lobby of my hotel in Ohrid, Macedonia and waiting for our taxi):

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Just as a side note… in order to bring my personal home page slowly back to life I just (re)started my personal blog at http://www.biskup.net/blog. It only will cover my other hobbies besides ADOM and JADE but it probably will be updated more frequently with ramblings about my non-roguelike life.
Concerning ADOM & JADE… I’m still […]

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So there’s the end of yet another year straight ahead. Again it was a pretty exciting and turbulent year for me, luckily no major mishappenings marred the past 12 months. Thus I feel like thinking about what I wish for in 2009…

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Once again it’s Christmas and once again there is no JADE below the Christmas tree… sadly. Nonetheless I would like to use this special moment in the year to thank everyone out there for the continuing support and the still existing belief in JADE (thanks, I surely won’t disappoint you - even if the delay […]

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Fred Brooks states in his “Mythical Man-Month” that IT architects are most dangerous when embarking on their second project. The reason for this is pretty simple… in their first project they will learn a lot and make all kinds of mistakes. Whe n starting their second project they are brimming with ideas and how to do […]

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