Hello World

Well...I guess this is it. After nearly 5 years of Internet existence, I have finally give in to the (not so) recent craze: My own blog. Yay for me? Woe for you? We shall see.

First things first. My name is Michael Mitsopoulos. I'm from Greece. I am 26 years old, and am at my (hopefully) last year at University, studying informatics. Yeah, it has took me a while. I could say that the reason was that I had occasionaly some jobs on the side, but who am I kidding? I'm lazy. But sometimes being lazy for a programming is a good thing. You'll see.

So why I created this blog? Well, mainly because I want to record and document my main occupation: Programming. And specifically, game programming. You see, at the site I usually hang around, www.gamedev.net, many programmers have journals. The fact that these programmers are invariably better than me didn't seem to prevent me from asking the question: Why not me? And here we are.

Don't expect from this blog to be composed of ramblings about my opinions on...everything. Oh, don't worry, I do have opinions about everything. I'm just not going to bore you with them. No, the goal of this blog is to mainly keep track of my game projects. So a new entry will most probably be comprised of mainly description about what problems I'm currently solving, occasionaly about links or books that have helped me, and maybe sometimes my opinion about software development and video games. Okay, I know I said 'no opinions', but this is a blog. Let's not pretend that it's not gonna happen. I'll try to keep it under control though.

All in all, I'd say I'm a fairly experienced programmer. I'm not amazing, but I try. I practice and keep myself updated. I have been doing this for about 13 years, since the age of 12. Although, until I first went online, I,well...how to say this...Sucked. You see, all I had was some books about QBasic and Delphi, and the documentation. I did some things that impressed my peers and family, got small some jobs where my clients were impressed, but now that I look at it in retrospect...Yeah. I was not good.

Fortunately, the internet gave me access to a wealth of articles,forums,and online books. I had the chance to interact with programmers much more talented and experienced, and this changed me. Well, not me, but my programming habits. I now know that I'm better than what I used to be. And that's a good thing.

See? The entry is about to be over and you still don't know things about my life: What do I enjoy? What is my religion, my political views? Do I do sports? Do I have a girlfriend? And that's the way it will remain. This is a blog about my programming life, not my everyday life. You don't care about my everyday life and we all know that. But I hope that my programming experiences would be enough in order for some people to show interest and share their opinions via comments. If not, oh well. This will be good of me, keeping a track of my projects and their progress.

So, that was it. You'll hear from me again when I have something interesting to say. Don't hold your breath, but do check the blog out if you want from time to time, and leave your comments.
Come and poke holes on my algorithms, my design decisions, my code snippets. I know you want to :)