Every single bloody line of code I’ve written today seems to be broken. Every bug I fix unveils five more. All the bug fixes seem to require not insubstantial redesigns of bits of my code. And every test of every single change I make takes about 5 minutes to complete because of a distinct lack of lightweight test harnesses in our system. And it’s all bloody Microsoft’s fault for not decoupling a sound source from sound data in DirectX. I think I’m going to buy the GTA3/Vice City XBox double pack on my way home tonight so I can run over some pedestrians and relieve a bit of stress.
Today is really not a good day.
I had a wasted morning. Tried to template up some of my classes, got almost to the end of it then realised it just wasn’t possible. That’ll teach me to start on bold ideas before the caffiene has taken effect.
We did something like that with our first architecture design. We spent two or three weeks coding some stuff up, only to come up against the ol’ ‘static members aren’t overridable’ chestnut (they’re *always* static to the base class) which screwed everything right up and forced a near-total redesign.
Sometimes C++ just sucks.
Aaaaarggh… ’nuff said. Hurrumph.