November 25

Working with a new Language and TwitchLib API

This week I decided it was finally time to delve into the world of C# properly, I have previously dabbled in the language but never worked on it solidly for a prolonged period of time so that I would be able to learn the system properly.

One project that I have worked on before which would help ease the transition is working on a Twitch Bot. My most recent PHP project on stream was a bot so the general logic is going to be a breeze. After all, Twitch is just an IRC protocol which is easy enough to work with and manipulate. Despite the ease, I had found a library called TwitchLib which has been made by a decent team of C# developers.

Whilst I won’t be able to stream the development of the bot due to the system limitations, I am going to use this blog to show the progress of the development as well as any challenges that I come across in the development, especially as I haven’t found any real tutorials or resources that could help.

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March 12

It has been a while!

So it has been almost 3 months since I last wrote here and a lot has changed in so many different ways, professionally, personally, physically and mentally too! So what has happened you ask? Well lets split it up:

 

Professionally

After 6 years, 10 months and 1 day of working for o2, I decided to start putting out feelers for different jobs, both in retail and outside of retail as I feel the stress and mental drain of the job far outweighs the benefits and it has done for quite a while. I am fed up of returning home from work mentally tired and fed up as it isn’t easy to just shake off when I get home which is affecting my work/life balance massively. For the programming side of my professional career I need to reboot my programming and build up a portfolio which pushed me harder to get DDR onto a framework (which it is now btw so go take a look).

On top of the framework, I was previously building the Android app that was previously chronicled on the blog which hasn’t progressed much more unfortunately but it will be making a return before the end of the month! I have also taken up to learning C# and again I will be working on a fun project to develop my knowledge of the language and spur me on. The twist to this project is that I have also asked Quis to help out on the graphical and story-line stuff but more information will be on that soon!

 

Personally and Physically

As a lot of you know, this year was my return to Rugby Union after so long away from it, it certainly has been a fun year of it but yesterday was my last match of the season due to work commitments which is sad and unfortunate. The community that is Yarnbury RFC is just amazing but it has also helped me lose weight too which is an added bonus!

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