I’m all geared towards my first day at my new job. I want to go and kick some ass ! ..Sorry for the dudeish expression, but that’s more or less the feeling. I want to go and code new stuff, get tasks, etc etc.
Chances are that my first tasks will be somewhat boring, although I really hope they won’t be ! There is also a fear that I may end up in some place where there is a weird coding standard.
My current employer required (but I never complied (^^;)) that one had to put an underscore before any local variable (WTF ?!), an ‘m’ before every method, and some funky names for looping variables.

for (int i=0; i < 10; ++i)

…becomes…

for (ulong32 _Lp=0; _Lp < 10; ++_Lp)

..give me a break !

My current rules for writing C++ code are the following:

//===============================================================
/// @file class_name.h
//===============================================================
class ClassName
{
    int     _class_item;

public:
    ClassName();
    ~ClassName();

    void    PublicMethod();

private:
    void    privateMethod();
};

..I hope that I can keep that to some extent. Or at least that I won’t be forced to use some very weird and/or paranoid coding style.

Changing topic. I recently received some positive and some negative feedback regarding my search for employment.
The large foreign company that I was aiming for apparently isn’t doing great business in Japan and it’s not looking anymore for new people for the position I applied for. It could be an excuse, but on the other hand I didn’t really have a chance to go for an actual interview after the initial phone chat (which it seemed like it went well).

Positive feedback comes instead from two big Japanese game companies. They both want me to allocate at least 3 hours to undertake an interview and a test.. rigorously in Japanese.
One company says that I will receive help in reading and that I can bring my brand new CASIO XD-ST7400 8)
The other company contacted me directly with an appointed day and hour. So, I will have to ask about the test. If good reading comprehension is required, then I may as well avoid wasting everyone’s time. I don’t like to take tests where there is a good chance that I’ll fail !

I’ve recently worked on DSharingu. A new release fixes a crash problem. But it really needs just a lot of work. I need to improve compression, especially for complicated wallpapers.. but I also need to improve the interface.
Currently the settings allow to specify one party to connect. If one wants to change he/she has to change the IP manually but also change the passwords relative to that destination.
I’m now working on an interface that keeps a list of destinations (or “remotes”), each with a name and a password.

ole’

Posted by Davide Pasca in Programming, Diary