While I still check up on BYOND very often, It has been 4 days since I have started playing with Unity3D. I joined an IRC Chat to seek some help with developing Unity3D since I was having trouble setting up the networking side of my game. It's very confusing and I am not the only one with trouble. There's countless others.
A surprising... event!
In 4 days, I was surprised I could answer some of the basic questions these people asked. I ended up messaging this one guy and we conversed for about two days (Not fully. If you're counting the actual elapsed time, it would have to be around 2 hours on IRC and 4 hours for this next part..). He asked if I knew how to set up some stuff in PHP and also do it in C#. So, I said yeah, sure. He was excited that I could help and offered to donate. I told him it was fine, I'd do it for free. But, he insisted, so.. I wasn't going to deny the $50.00 that he was willing to give me lol.
Struggles with giving aid
In turn, I spent 4 hours on Teamviewer devoted to helping fix and troubleshoot his problem. The difficulties were the fact that I had just started using C# Monday, I also just started using Unity3D Monday, along with MonoDevelop. Working through Teamviewer took a lot of time. Primarily because when he moved his mouse, I couldn't interact. He he typed, I couldn't type. So every now and then I had to ask him to just hold on for a bit.
What the requested job was
What he basically asked me to do was fairly simple since I had a little knowledge from BYOND and previously tinkering with PHP. All he wanted was to pass some data to his website so that it would create a file. I had to look up a few ways to pass the URL and data through, but I got it done. Not only that, he said he'll pay me for more work! It's like I finally got a job! :') And I'm almost 18.. December 8 is almost here.
Thank you
I really must thank him though for being generous to pay me. I've helped many people, but $50.00 is a lot to me. It says a lot.. doesn't it?
Off-topic in an off-topic post
As for what I've been doing programming-wise on BYOND. Nothing.
I haven't been able to update Shell Server primarily because of the fact that Ss4toby still is coding it and while there's the option that we can both code on it at the same time, I feel that it would get confusing if we don't converse on what updates we add to it. So, I haven't been really doing anything on BYOND, even though
I want to update really bad right now. However, the update to come is very much different from what is currently released. It's approximately 2 months work of on and off programming, while Ss4toby is also working and I can't touch the codes.
I slip a few maintenance updates and features to keep things moving. But not too much that I would forget to add them in the update.
