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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This weekend I finally after a long hiatus managed to squeeze in about 8 hours of programming on JADE. Since the highscore stuff I worked on weeks ago proved to be very boring right now I started something else and now shopkeepers and shops are returning to the game.
The major difference (for now) to ADOM […]

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Just to give you an idea why JADE is taking so long: I have my personal list of things I want to get done before I die (JADE is a high priority) and during the last year I checked off quite a few things that have been itching me for some time:

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