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I am still working on this game idea.  It is alot more work than I was expecting.  But it IS starting to come together.  I have a homepage put together and I am currently working on ironing out the signup page.

Just today, I realized that I will need to have some sort of verification system for the sign up, so that no body signs up as another student, just to cause problems.  I have no training in setting up databases or designing games or information security or any number of 100’s of things that must be considered when creating something like this.  I am certain that I am not following any best practices as I am just learning by the seat of my pants.  But it’s fun.

I have been working on integrating Facebook into my game.  Facebook has done a great job of making oauth as easy as possible for the novice like me.  But it’s still fuzzy for me.  I don’t quite grasp how http post and curl and json and all the really works, though I can sort of take what someone else has done and tweak it for my purposes.

I need to go back to school for computer science.  It’s what I should have done in the first place, at least dual major.  Then I would have something useful to go along with my degree in Astronomy.  Computer science is fun because it is interesting like math but you can actually make neat stuff with it and enjoy doing it for its own sake (again just like math).

Anyway, now I’m rambling on.  I just wanted to post an update.  Thanks for reading? (if there are any legitimate readers).

~Dylan Faullin