After months of combined time, across a few years with random breaks due to distractions, I finally finished this feature I've been working on to fix a major bug in the engine we use at work where textures wouldn't ever load if the DirectX device isn't available at initial load time. Holy hell did it ever get complicated, but I'm happy with the result. Multi-threaded texture loading ftw!

Well I'm pretty much 100% sure I made it to round 2 of the official, yay! Finally made it. Looking forward to the next song since it looks pretty fun from the preview. I have no idea how far I'm going to get but getting past round one is a huge improvement already haha.

Just spent $145 on a Das keyboard. It better be really fucking good lol.

Wasted over an hour today tracking down a stupid bug. We thought it was something wrong with the multi-threaded print code that I recently wrote, but it turns out it's something weird with ImageMagick. Apparently it's generating some exception when you don't have enough space on your hard drive to write out some image data, and then stomping all over some random memory causing a heap corruption that crashes in random locations later on in the program execution.

The more you know~

Programming a proxy server fucking sucks, seriously. It would be a huge piece of cake if I could somehow get flash to directly use my proxy and have that be the only thing being tunneled through it, but nooooooo I have to set the global proxy settings for the entire OS so every single application that uses HTTP is now trying to go through my proxy and I have to somehow figure out how to forward all the data for everything ever -_-

I swear this project seemed way easier when I was initially researching it...If only WinPCap didn't turn out to be a huge bust and fail to capture any outbound traffic, even though all the documentation clearly says that it should work.

*sighs* Probably going to start over with the proxy code and try to design it better to handle multiple connections and multiple destinations. Doesn't help that I don't fully understand how it all works.

Programming a proxy is pretty damn complicated.