Bullets

[afuna]

• I am falling behind on a lot of correspondence; I need to set aside a day to respond to comments and bugmail and email


• OTOH, my work inbox is completely empty, whoo!


• watched the first lecture for intro_to_cs. The segment where he was generating syntax errors reminds me of the first day in CS 101 where our take home group assignment was to take a simple Java program, and find as many ways as we could to make the compiler complain
  
  ... that was awesome fun


• Also, the blackboards in that video are really, really, nifty


• Learning about Spring MVC for work. Slightly less fun, but I shall sort it out. (I may soon treat myself to learning jQuery from the very basics, which I also need to study, to break up the meh of enterprise Java)


• Reworked three patches, uploaded one new one, have one last one almost ready (just need Pau to comment on one bit)


• Tomorrow shall be a reviewing day, I think. I meant to make it part of today, but it's getting late


• Ran out of my current yarn stripe; switched back to white for my pouch bag. I am on the final stretch, I think!


• Need to make time to go to the one yarn shop I've found that sells non-acrylic yarn. I have found some acrylic yarns that are easier on my fingers, but I do miss the feeling of cotton (and I may get something else -- not sure what, but I want to treat myself to trying out a texture I have not tried before)


• Coding is patterns; knitting is patterns. They play around in the same area of my brain :-)


• I thought the whitepages were my connection's fault, but no they aren't? I guess that makes sense

Comments

[gchick]

I LOVE THE BLACKBOARDS.

And while it's not quite the same thing as knitting patterns, you know about the place of Jacquard weaving patterns in the history of computing?

[owl]

Spring isn't so bad; there are much, much worse ways of implementing MVC in Java enterprise apps. Or half-implementing it :-D
But I agree, there is something about 'services' and 'protocols' and suppsajfjsapijfnv....sorry, I just fell asleep on my keyboard there :-P

We use jQuery as well; I keep meaning to get really stuck into it at some point. I can just about read it, but writing it is still a copy 'n' paste job. You do get to create some fun UI effects with it, though.

I started watching the intro_to_cs video (because what I really need to study right now is yet another scripting language that I never get to use in $dayjob :-P). It reminded me really strongly of being back in uni, a baby first year. I love my job, but it made me realise that I miss being a student. Still, it can't hurt for me to brush up on my basic CS. All nice and clean and mathematical and no enteprise-y-ness in sight. ;)

Your sidebar calendar is still showing October even though this entry's in November, btw. Weirds.

[wyntarvox]

I love jQuery, seriously. I get sad when our designer spits out a concept that doesn't require me to do something new and cool with jQuery.

[pauamma]

Ooops, right, need to check that bit.