In the wake of gettin back into Transport Tycoon Deluxe I found this.
Edit: Additional I found this to play all that stuff. Really Neat.

Got to get my midi chip working.

Yesterday one of my flat-mates was playing a patched version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The one where you have advanced semaphores and stuff. Luckily I remembered that there was an open source version of TTD called OpenTTD. Well I somehow love such game antiquities because of their mosly magnificent concept and OpenTTD is somewhat ingenious. It has a stable network multiplayer mode and many other goodies that enhance the gameplay similar to what you get in those common TTD-Patches. I’m curious what the developer will enhance next. Oh yes,… of course I tested it and it was really relaxing.
If you just have Linux as an OS its really difficult to install a game wich has a decently gameplay. Normally I play Quake III to relax but thats all I had since yesterday.

Today I’m going to clean up my code for a wizard-framework developed in Java. At the moment the code and design is somewhat messy. I think I will change some of the overall design into a factory-method-pattern and take a look at the result.

At the moment the API requires the using coder to inherit and instanciate two types of classes for each page
of the wizard.

With the factory-method-pattern this could be reduced to just one, by pushing one page-class inside the wizard itself and making it accessibe by a factory-method, so in the end the coder just has to instanciate and build his pages. Then he just has to add them to the wizard, et voilá.

Parallel to this I invented a similar framework for a preferences-dialogue. Maybe I can use the same shit to simplify some things her too.

The Gentoo-Community is amazing. Every question is asked and answered in a most professional way. You almost never have to ask yourself, as someone probably did it before. Just enter the right search-string and get an answer.

Sometimes I question the gentoo-concept of building everything yourself, but the community is really worth all the effort.

Btw: The problem I had was a missing libstdc++ during a compile, the answer was:

fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4

and I found the answer here.
Just Great