Game Development Workshop Postponed

[Mark Aherne]

Hi guys,

I accepted a job offer in Dublin yesterday and I'm travelling up tomorrow (Wednesday) evening to start on Thursday.


I can't do anything for this Wednesday, but here's my plan for next Wednesday's session (12th Oct.) and the one after that:


I'm going to create a screencast of a workshop session, covering everything that I had planned. I'll also provide the project with commented source code.

The screencast will be shown at the session and someone will be there to facilitate and give people a hand if needs be.


I apologise for this change but I've little choice, I hope everyone's ok with it.

If you can not or do not want to attend the last two sessions then I'll organise a refund of €10 for you, just send me an e-mail directly.


Thanks,

Mark

[gerryk]

Well done on the job!

[Gerard Ryan]

Thanks for the heads up Mark, and as Gerry said, congrats on the employment!

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[Donal O'Domhnaill]

Going off topic here sorry...

To Gerard Ryan... looked at your blog.... saw the thing about bitcoins... it looks cool, what do you know about it, as in have you set up an account? have you used it or know anyone that has?

Again, sorry for going off topic

Donal

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[gerryk]

I mined a bunch a while back... enough to cover the cost of the
hardware I used to mine it, and a bit of profit.
These days, you are better buying them.

[Gerard Ryan]

Hi Donal,

yeah, bitcoin seems to be one of those great ideas that very few people
end up using. It's quite exciting...you don't need to set up an account
anywhere as such, since it's distributed p2p. When you install the
client, it connects to the network and you can send/receive bitcoins.
Then there are people 'mining' (I won't go into that, I've never really
done it, it doesn't seem worthwhile); suffice it to say that it's very
cpu/gpu intensive, but it's necessary (to a degree) to verify the
transactions.

The likes of paypal really don't want to see it succeed, and since it's
distributed, there's no official central location to get bitcoins. I
recommend bitmarket.eu though, it's run by a Polish guy living in
Ireland, and I've had successful transactions there. There's also a web
of trust on freenode IRC (#bitcoin and #bitcoin-otc).

I haven't used it in a couple of months, but if you have bitcoins, you
likely want to spend them on something. There's a list of places that
accept bitcoin here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade , lots of people
buying/selling stuff on reddit with btc:
http://www.reddit.com/r/BitMarket/ , then there's also a site called
'silk road' that's quite hard to get to (you need to use tor to get
there), and they cater for all manner of illegal goods and services
(apparently).

I hope that answers your question a bit!

[gerryk]

Humble Bundle accepts BTC. I bought the last one with BTC. Paid 1BTC,
which at the time would convert to about €10 or $14. Right now they
are hovering around $4.75 - $5
I have only ever bought through MTGox. I bought 10 at $3.68 about a week ago.

[Donal O'Domhnaill]

it is all really fasinating...  i will look into it more...

Thanks
Donal O D