Lazy Foo' Productions

OK everyone, we are now in RC1. This means I am focusing on fixing bugs and getting through a 500+ bug backlog.

You'll see I now have facebook/twitter pages now. I plan on using those to poll the audience for site updates (IE, which set up tutorials to add), so make sure to like/follow if you want your voice heard.

Time to iron out the tutorials for release. Get those bug reports in!

So after doing 3 full upgrades of Xubuntu on servers that had a habit of disconnecting, I find out that the latest version of codeblocks available on the apt-get repository doesn't work with the latest version of Ubuntu. This is bad because the latest versions of SDL2/_image/_ttf/_mixer need the latest repositories. After trying fishing around for a fix in what little spare time I have, I decided to just shelve it for now, and just post the command line tutorials for Linux for now. If you have a functioning codeblocks build, just compile from source to install the latest versions of SDL2 and their extensions.

For now, I am going to put on the final touches on the tutorials to prepare them for release candidate. RC is all about ironing out the bugs so the tutorials are ready for release. This mean I will finally be able to get through the 500+ e-mail backlog that's accumulated through beta.

Don't worry, Linux codeblocks tutorials are still planned. We'll just have to wait until there's a version that doesn't eat up an entire evening to install.

So I found out three interesting things:

1) SDL2 requires the latest version of you distro if you want to install it via package manager.

2) I haven't booted into my Linux partition in 385 days and my installation was ancient back when I was using it.

3) Either I am being throttled or the ubuntu upgrade servers are painfully slow. Maybe even both because I had them repeatedly disconnect.

So yeah even after spending two afternoons this weekend trying to upgrade to the latest version, I still can't test apt-get installation. I am hoping this third upgrade is the last one I'll have to do.

As always guys, it's late but it's on the way.

...I am sure y'all know by now that things never ever go to schedule. Tech support calls yesterday ate up all my free time and considering the Android simulator takes 4 minutes to boot up on my ancient computer it looks like an android set up tutorial is not in the cards this week.

Another thing that I forgot about is that Apple holds its annual developer conference this time of year and of course this means new OSX and iOS. I don't want to use up a weekend crafting tutorials only to have it be outdated two months later and have to eat up another weekend updating it.

I am definitely going to push back the OSX and iOS set up tutorials until after the next release of OSX and iOS so they remain up to date a long as possible. I may end up having to push back the android and mobile tutorials to post release. We'll see how thing go.

For now the next thing on the agenda is the remaining Windows and Linux desktop set up tutorials.

June 15th:
-Windows command line set up tutorial
-Linux Codeblocks set up tutorial
-Linux Command line set up tutorial

Still in the air:
-Mobile set up tutorial (Windows Android)
-Mobile set up tutorial (Linux Android)
-Mobile Touch tutorial
-Mobile Gesture tutorial

After new OSX and iOS releases:
-OSX Code blocks set up tutorial
-Mobile set up tutorial (OSX iOS)

Late as always, but we're up to 51 SDL 2 tutorials!

Ok so this is what the schedule is looking like:
June 8th
-Mobile set up tutorial (Windows Android)
-Windows command line set up tutorial

June 15th
-Mobile Touch tutorial
-Mobile Gesture tutorial

June 22nd
-Mobile set up tutorial (Linux Android)
-Linux Codeblocks set up tutorial
-Linux Command line set up tutorial

June 29th
-OSX set up tutorial
-Mobile set up tutorial (OSX iOS)

Hopefully soon after we'll go from beta release candidate.