There was nothing quite like playing a match of CTF in Halo. Bring a couple of friends over and just play non-stop until the late night hours. It was a great way to spend a weekend. While I haven't quite stopped enjoying that, I now find myself partaking in a slightly different kind of CTF game these days.
A project I worked on needed to implement persistent storage to meet a requirement. I volunteered to write it from scratch. Just map objects in memory to your SQL database back end. How hard can it be, right? Oh, and let's do it in C++ for even more fun times.
A bit about me, why I write and what you can expect to read in this blog.
How I learned Go over a weekend while sorting a rather long and unattended list of lists that I had been filling up since I started University in 2012.