Digital Dave

Things in life require unrelenting dedication and drive.  Things test each and every one of us in a unique way that makes us all stand out from the crowd.  We each have our own story to tell.  The key to everything we do in life is how we decide to utilize our mind to push us to the next level, and not letting those who tell you that it can’t be done, win.  If you stay true to yourself and push through the obstacles the rewards are endless.  You know you’ve done well and those around you see it.

Today, I will graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Information Systems! Many have said I couldn’t do it, but giving in isn’t in my bloodline. I’ve pushed through the difficult moments, and I feel that I’ve done myself well. I am the first in my family to graduate from college and hopefully not the last.

Aside from the money issues i’ve been having due to some financial aid not hitting my account, things are rolling along well.

In one of my classes I have the requirement of building either a game prototype, engine, tool, or building a thorough design document for the final project.  I’m leaning toward building a tool suite of some sort, but I’m having a mental block on what sort of tools are needed for game development — beyond the obvious, a 2D/3D map editor.

If you have some ideas of tools are needed for game development, feel free to reply so I can debate on if I should pursue it.

Besides this class, I have another CIS course that is dishing out a pretty serious test tomorrow.  It’s not a good feeling when your instructors are even confused by the material that they are reviewing. We’ll have to see how it goes.

My creative writing class is going really well.  Learning about all kinds of things and the professor is doing a pretty good job so far.  I need to write 2 stories for this class, which I’ve already done.  They are a bit long, so I’ll either need to consider cutting them down or writing something completely different.

We started up a new semester, and my final, here at Kansas State University.  I love this school. Awesome atmosphere, people, faculty.  It’s hard to believe I’m nearly done.

My final semester.

• Creative Writing: Fiction
• Independent Project
• Game Programming Project
• Software Engineering Project

I debated on if I should stick with the game programming project, or to take a course in internet security.  Or even just adding it to my schedule.  But I decided to wait until graduate school.

And, finally, here is the CSS Builder.

Download Version 1 with Source

View a compiled output file

I included the source in the case you wanted to modify something. And you can view an example of what the output will look like. You can flag whether or not the header shows, or any of the comments. Some day I’ll wrap this thing up with a GUI, but until then I just wanted to get it out for those that wanted it.

Steps:

• Put the CSS files you want to merge inside the \DATA folder.
• EDIT project.csb
  • If you don’t want the header: set ‘headercomment’ to false
  • If you don’t want file comments: set ‘filecomments’ to false
  • Edit ‘buildfile’ if you want the output file somewhere else other than the default data folder
  • For each file, add the path and description
• Run Builder.exe, or set your development environment, to run with the parameter of the project file
  • Example: c:\builder.exe project.csb