Well, this is the first post I've made in ages. Around the time I started this this blog I had just started my first professional coding job which left less than than I had hoped for updating it. Now that I've been settled in for a while I'm going to do my best to update this again more frequently. I need a place to pursue personal programming tasks and projects anyway.
That being said, I can confidently say now that my 'Areas of Focus' for C# and HTML 5 have been fulfilled. I use C# on a daily basis at work and do modern web design nearly as often. I'm actually creating a clone of an old Windows 3.x game that I used to love as we speak. I'll make sure to provide a link to it as soon as I make a bit more progress. My current goal is for that to be by the end of this weekend however we will see how well that works out this being Easter weekend and all.
I have made some progress this weekend though having already ripped, by hand, all of the graphics from the original game. I converted them to transparent PNGs which should work well I just have to remember to put them in a single sprite sheet if possible so that the number of requests is reduced. This should allow for a much quicker load time. Realistically though there aren't very many sprites and additionally they came from an era where the entire screen resolution consisted of 640x480 pixels or even less so each PNG is like 500 bytes. So, the question is: is it better to have a single request for of the composite sprite sheet or a bunch of requests for the smaller individual sprites? I guess one benefit of the latter is that your browser can do multiple requests at a time allowing for parallel downloading.
Anyway, I'll update this as progress occurs...
