3 weeks at work
Well it’s been an interesting time at work, lots to learn and lots more to learn after the training is over. Taking calls to support the Post Office home phone and broadband products is interesting and sometimes hard. On one hand I want to help the customers, on the other hand I can’t help due to access restrictions (I’m still waiting for some system username and passwords) or because there’s nothing I can do in this case. Some calls are fun to take mind you.
The reason for this post is to start to document something I’ve been working on for a while – the unified console – and while it’s not taking the same shape as I originally wanted it to, it’s starting to work the way it should. I’ve currently got the Unicode working in it (using UTF-8 for the Unicode glyphs) and it’s working in the 16 colour tile mode at the moment. I’ve started to code up a proper image to font format utility, but getting my head around FreeImage is not happening as fast as I would like due to my working hours, and lack of material to read on the PC at work (no internet access). I’ll post a couple of screen shots later on as well as some docs on how it should work in a homebrew application.
I’ve not forgot about the Pablo series of articles, it’s just I’ve had other things on my mind lately and Pablo got dropped a couple of places in my to do list.