It seems almost certain that the data engine for this application is going to be a relational database. My analyses so far have concluded the data is pretty structured. Most applications I’ve worked on have had pretty specific requirements when it comes to their data. These have mostly been business …
Yesterday I posted a feature wish list, design elements I’d like to see in my media library. How does calibre measure up? All in all, calibre doesn’t appear to fit my needs very well. To be fair, much of my wish list is specifically to address the elements of calibre …
This post was almost ‘Business Requirements’, but I didn’t call it that for two reasons. First, even inasmuch as my background is in software development, this isn’t about ‘business’, this is a personal itch I’m trying to scratch. Second, ‘requirements’ are, by definition, measurable: it must be possible to decide …
As I understand it, much of the open source movement is driven not by ideals, but by an itch. A developer has a need to create something, usually a tool or an app or a library or the like, to address a need the developer has. I have a mighty …
Ten posts complete… I think this is the shorted A-Z Blog Challenge failure I’ve had. I started to write ‘earliest’, but it took almost two weeks for me to admit it to myself. We’ve had some shakeups at work this month. These don’t actually directly add to my workload (in …
For many years I’ve wanted a system to formalize developing relationships with organizations or other entities. I don’t want to apply it to everything — the number of connections can become immense — but where a relationship becomes significant enough to track, I want a way to formalize it. Most …
No matter how much detail a game entity such as a character, place, or even a deity has… it will only get interesting when it connects to other things. When it comes to deities, a deity standing alone is unlikely to be of any real interest. The connections between deities, …
Many years ago, GreyKnight created the “Keith Davies Blog Post Generator“, mostly to poke good-natured fun at me, but I admit I laughed… and I sometimes feel the urge to validate that post. The first table is ‘Subject Matter’, and two of the entries are ‘Revisit an old post and …
The first two factions I created in this pantheon had no interactions at all, as far as domain assignments are concerned. I added four more factions and started to see some interactions, including some potentially unreliable or even compromised faction members. One thing I didn’t check, though, was the distribution …
In my first run at building factions in this pantheon I ended up with a strongly polarized division. The two factions really had no direct interactions. They could well interact because they’re in the same pantheon, but the members of the factions have no overlapping portfolios. In this post I’ll …
