Finite Improbability

I’m going to try and keep up with what I’ve done towards these resolutions at the end of each month. Hopefully this will help me stay on task. Here’s what I’ve done so far:

• On the game development front: I spent a bit of time this month trying to come up with ways to get a bit of extra money. One of the ideas was to work up some simple web games (in Flash) and try to get them published. I wouldn’t mind eventually doing my game project in this, and am learning to use the Flex compiler to write Flash projects in pure ActionScript 3. If you’re interested, I found a good reference here.

• On the Haskell/compiler front: I’m considering doing an AS3->Flash compiler in Haskell. The mxmlc compiler provided with Flex is written in Java, which means each recompile gets to enjoy the jvm startup time. Anyways, it would be a fun side project that probably will result in a half-finished compiler not suitable for anyone’s use. I’m sure I’ll learn something though.

• On the productivity front: Things are going ok here. I could be doing better, but I’m satisfied with what’s happened so far.

Obviously the “more blogging” goal is happening so far.