Dragonbane = Carbane? (Antti)

Dragonbane Diary
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
Finland

Was the name of the project Carbane?

There seems to be an trend of car breakdowns associated with Dragonbane as almost all of our workshops and meetings that require travelling involve a car breakdown. The first time I went to Älvdalen our car broke down and we had to buy a new one in Avesta, on my second trip the car (actually the same one we bought last time) broke down in Stockholm. When we needed to move our workshop bus from Turku to Loimaa it didn't start. The list goes on.

The latest breakdown happened yesterday (Friday the 13th, for all you supersticious people) when we were trying to go from Turku to the programming meeting in Espoo. The fuel filter turned out to be clogged and we were about three hours late (mental note: next time when you calculate travelling times remember to add three hours of car repair time).

But eventually we arrived in Espoo and we managed to hammer down the final specification of the Direct or Remote ActorGuided Operating Network (a shameless backronyme if I've ever seen one) and started to do some serious coding. Basically I told the coders what I wanted the dragon to do and then we thought about how to implement it.

Antti Oksanen demonstrates the dragon's expression

So far we have managed to do some serious progress. Half of our programs are under development and they should be ready in a week or so. Of course, as with all projects, we expect at least one or two thousand bugs in the system but if we can keep up the current pace we should be able to have some kind of a program when we get the dragon ready for testing.

Antti Oksanen, signing off from the middle of a huge pile of programmers, laptop computers and empty coke bottles