Chat Bot!

I've put my character logger on the back burner for now and have started working on a IRC chat bot, specifically for my twitch.tv channel.

If you're interested in seeing the current status you can join me tonight at 8:00pm EST at twitch.tv/DarkXilde

Currently working on custom chat commands usable by different levels of viewers (regular users, moderators, subs, and friends).

Looking for suggestions.

Just an update for those of you whom have been following my live streams: I have decided to put the character generator on the back burner. I've run into too many issues understanding PyQt to keep going with the UI portion. So I am looking for a new project, or something else to stream.

I'm open to suggestions! Got a few hours before I go live to figure something out.

October 3rd stream!

Today may be a miscellaneous stream.  I may be playing Minecraft or something with friends, had a late day to class and I had to bang out my homework relatively quickly.

Since I'm not working currently I am going to start streaming during the day, and these streams will probably be game play.  I'm open to play just about anything but I am not a competitive gamer so even if I do play a competitive type game (fortnight, LoL, Overwatch) I will *not* be good at it 😁.

If you want to recommend a game, please feel free to do so on stream, you can see my Steam library here.  There are certain games that I will not play, but just about everything on that list is fair game.

If you want to play something with me, join the Discord server.

UI Mulligan

Last week we went from a single form looking UI to a multi-tab setup sheet, the end goal is to make a WFRP character logging system that looks something like this program: https://grapevinelarp.com/

I think today I am going to scratch the UI work we did the last 2 weeks and start working on what I want it to look like in the end:  A Multi-document interface based around the way that grapevine looks.  I have a lot of friends that are involved in an organization called One World by Night which is a world wide network of World of Darkness Live Action Role Playing games that all play in a shared universe.  In the past 15 years I've played in game, and even run quite a few, all which used Grapevine. I am by no means attempting to knock the work of Adam Cerling on Grapevine but over the years I, and others, have found things that I would like to see improved or changed.

Grapevine is an extensive application which I want to tackle in the long run and create a replacement for, but I want to do it from the ground up, I do not want to take Adam's work and build on that code, I would like to create an application that is wholly mine, though inspired by his work.

You can join me tonight, and every Wednesday night starting between 8-8:30pm EST on twitch.tv/darkxilde as I stream the development of a Warhammer Fantasy Character Generator, and logging system.

Want to keep in touch on facebook?  Join this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/810323556023323/
Read the message, both questions must be answered correctly, use google if you're unsure.  The group admins are pretty strict on the answers!

UI Cont..

    Tonight I am going to continue working on the UI development.  I think I am going to organize the different aspects of the character sheet into different tabs instead of trying to just display it all on a single page.  Nothing too exciting tonight since I'm just trying to take it east because:

    In other news some of you may know I have been given notice from my employer that my position is being eliminated. I am not yet freaking out about not having a job, and I have plenty of leads already, I just need to start tracing them down and sending out my resume.

As usual Stream will start between 7:30 and 8:00pm EST depending on traffic and dinner.

COP-1000 HW1C3P5

Today this class had its first homework due, and I have my first Exam.

Seeing what this class has been so far is interesting. I've received a copy of the book for the class and found that the first 3 chapters are exceptionally basic.  I was expecting a bit more about advanced logic but it seems like its going to be slow getting to that point. (my homework here)

I'm half tempted to just start doing all of the homework questions as my stream, but I'm sure that would be even less entertaining.

The class is having to use a program called 'Raptor' (you can look at it here.) to chart out the flow of the logic.  Its odd going from a problem-to-design mindset  to a problem-identification-classification-solution-design flow.

Its strange, but good.  The way it is being explained would seem to make it easier to follow the idea of how to create the process flow of a program.  

Probably going to be bored until mid November though.

August: Program Design, Pseudocode, and Developing an algorithm

September: Selection control structures Repetition control structures

October: Repetition control structures, pseudocode algorithms, array processing, Modularization, and inter-modual communication

November: Into to object-oriented design, and OO-design for more than one class

December: Tentative.

Tonights stream

I should be on around by 8pm est, I have a few things to take care of when I get home so that might stretch till 8:30pm est.  I'm going to keep working on the UI for my WFRP Character Generator.  Come join me on twitch.tv/darkxilde later this evening.

Check my twitch page to find my other social media contact information, and if you like what you see follow me on Twitch, or toss me a sub if you want!

News from Twitch:  If you are gifted a sub any time in the months of September you can turn any Tier of your gifted Sub into a recurring Tier 1 Sub for 80% off!

UI beginning

Tonight will be one of the first few ties that I will be looking into PyQt5.  I'm probably going to struggle with this a bit, but please come keep me company and we can learn this UI tool together.

I'm looking for new projects so if you have any ideas for a project you'd like to see comment here, let me know on twitch, or anywhere else you've been able to find me!

twitch.tv/darkxilde