Software in three weeks !

It's impossible to write a scriptable multi purpuse framework/application in three weeks.
Believe me, i tried.
At least if you want to keep the person you care about.

4th law of robotics !

MS Robotics Studio is great ! .NET ! CCR ! PhysiX ! State !
Great tool for prototyping and programming !

And the CCR is out, and you can use it !

The concept behind is awesome. State driven. Transitions, Behavior, Orchestration !
Had the idea years ago to do something like that, but I could not do it so good.
So the concept stayed in a drawer. I used some of the ideas for building of discreet simulation environment and the framework behind it.
Now the basics are done, infrastructure is great !

Now I will:
Make simulation ... I wonder if it's possible ... hmmm ... I will dig in ...
Make a rendering engine, connect, then abuse my imagination.
Lets make unpredictable environments, lets do the neural networks, favorite swarms, GA, GP, lets make some AI ! Wolfram here I come...

CA for paralell prediction models and simulators you've never seen before. Distributed chess anyone ?

But play as a figure... I will play for pawn, Who will be the queen, who's the king ? doesn't matter... you'll be simulated anyhow, like 30 million times in a second. And pawn will win, of course.

Go ahead, try it, make something with it !

Sim

i have been working a lot on this simulator, the project is nearing its finish. Still has some issues (you can say bugs) and then some optimizations have to be done...

A shell and a cloud

Need some task based scripting or better command line for Windows ? Get this shell, still in beta, but still very nice. There is an article at arstechnica.
Right now i am in working on how to render clouds. This is not going to be so easy. None of the techiques satisfy all the needs. Or they are too expensive for realtime or they don't look good enough. i'll be back with more info.

Software design !

Check this essay, it is about software design, by Jack W.Reeves, i think it's like "uh man, from what planet are you". A must read !!