Kimmi’s Weblog

In my developer life I developed many little applications and libraries to see, how to deal with API’s, special programming techniques or new languages. My reason to stop my experimental work before getting something useful was everytime the same thing: my movitation was gone or another experimental code was more interesting than the current experiment or feature. The same thing happened happened to me in the ZFXCE. I tried out a new technique, but before finishing this ( because I get no benefit of it ) I started something new. So in the redesign phase I deleted a lot of deprecated and not working code.
But some experiments were finished successfully: the experiments, which implementations have solveld a real issue. So how can I use this to have more success in my bigger projects like the ZFXCE. In the ZFX-Community-Engine we have one major issue: we don’t have any customers and no projects, which needs new fatures.
So what can I do to improce this? It’s quite simple: develop a testgame / testproject parallel to the engine-development. Hopefully this will increase the functionality of future developments.

In the ZFXCE we moved from subversion to git. So a lot of you may be ask why we did this. The reasons are simple: using a decentral versioncontrol like GIT you don’t have a single point of failue. And using GIT the merge of branches back to the mainbranch is much more easier than using subversion. If you already made some experimences with that you know what I mean.

And git is much faster than subversion. Currently I am using GIT under windows with the GIT package and with tortoise-git to make thinks easier and it works fine for me.

Of course we had to learn new things. But in my opinion learning somethink new isn’t so bad at all.

If you have to deal with .NET stuff and you want to generate a doxygen docu because the code is only a separate component of a bigger project, you have to convert the xml tags into doxygen-compliant tags. And if you are looking for you can find a lot of similar issues like integrating python docu into a doxygen format. Fortunately some clever guys already solute this issues. Take a look to the following URL:
Doxygen extentions
It is possible to extend the doxygen parser. Or you can use a preprocessor to convert your tags into doxygen.