Headless Chickens anybody ......

Well, me and my big mouth. The mad panic was delayed until yesterday at about 5 when the Microsoft OLE DB was not found to work with some of the COM components we have. So now we have to use both OLEDB Providers. The Service Pack 4 problem does not occur with COM objects using the Oracle provider so Microsoft OLE DB for Asp and Oracle for COM. So much for universal Data Access.

As far as the game is concerned, I really am getting an idea of how much work will be involved in writing this game. It looks as if it will take at least six months of work before I can see any creible results (ie an Alpha) and at least a year away from a Beta Test. During that time, it is likely that someone else will have come up with a similar or exaclty the same idea, which will make any idea of make money out of this redundant. But as is stated at the beginning, this is a learning exercise so there's no point in giving up without trying.

We have visitor's tonight at home so no work can proceed, but I have made a start on the Client UML Static Diagram. This is going to be easier than the Server Diagram as half of the Server Diagram can be reused.