I've accomplished the basics of what I've wanted to do.

after about 20 revisions, I've got the new software worked into a format I can live with.

I still have to work out all the remaining kinks, and strip all the excess debug code.

but now we should be good to go. this will be well worht it, allowing me to increase my throughput. as soon as I get this cleaned up, updates will start flowing again!

cheers!

Testing has been completed on the individual components, and a test rig has been constructed (ahem, to test).

components are designed to manage, and describe the various database tables within alacrity. at this point the the tools should be able to manage database interactions almost completely.

now I have to construct the management tool, which links the individual components together in order to form 'entities'.

An entity represents all the data for any particular object across all of the tables. as an example, an item spans several tables (the item description, the inventory, supplemental tables such as whether or not its equipped)


this part should go easier, anyway more updates soon!

I'm installing some software to track what I'm working on.

this part of the changes will be somewhat invisible to the user, but I want everyone to see what I'm working on.

its primary purpose is security, but I configured it to only work on changes.

It wont be perfect, but it will give you an idea. I first have to clean up the reports a bit to sanitize file system information so we dont leak security info etc.

I figure this way you can know I'm still alive and working on it, and possibly (I'm not sure how much detail I can get out of it) see how many changes are being made!