Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Back from Temporary Insanity

(Note to people who don't know me, or potential future employers that probably search names before hiring people: I didn't actually go insane, nor do I have any mental health conditions. Also: What are your retirement benefits?)

So I spent the last couple of months not programming Entrippy or Platzad. I was looking into creating a filesystem optimized for multi-user multi-system backup and synchronization for home networks. Why? Because I needed one. I also had what I thought were useful and intriguing features unique to it as well. As I was coming up with my features list, I continued reading about other filesystems, and then I found out what I was contemplating was implemented in various filesystems and software revision control systems in one way or another. In the end, not one thing was truly unique to my FS, save that all those things together were not found in any one system I looked at. Besides, rdiff-backup will work for now, once I care enough to try it out.

In the end, I came to this thought:

Man, I need to get back into some C++ development! Forget me writing the next great shared filesystem, I needs to get back to my one true love: games.

So there. Platzad here I come.

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