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.

[afuna]

You already had by the time you posted this comment!

[afuna]

I got switched to a different (temporary) project which won't require me to know jQuery. CURSES!

[afuna]

*snickers* You capture my feelings about Spring perfectly.

i love jQuery <3 I don't need to worry about crossbrowser compatibility (my number one enemy!), plus it is really cool. Really cool.

Have you tried the second video yet? I haven't! But I loved the first; I miss not having to deal with enterprise stuff.

That last one is an outstanding bug, with memcache D: I... should go fix that. Or submit a patch or something .

[owl]

Cross-browser compatibility, how nice that would be. Our landing page is all jQuery-fied, so it works in Fx, but once you start opening things up...the navigation only works in IE6/7, for a start. :(

I haven't watched the second video yet; I'm planning on getting to it tonight.

[pauamma]

Not the Perl module, I think?

[afuna]

*looks thoughtful* Hmm, maybe

[pauamma]

Did it change from the state you linked me to?

[afuna]

No, I don't think so. Or maybe I changed some to follow your suggestions? I thought we were done, so I've uploaded the patches.

You can take a look, via the repository :)

[pauamma]

K. Will do. (What's the module called?)

[afuna]

Hmmm.

cgi-bin/DW/StatData/PaidAccounts.pm

wasn't that it? or were you referring to something else?

[pauamma]

I was thinking of the testimonials thingy, actually. :-)

[afuna]

Aha! I haven't finished writing it up :) Got busy doing the stats yesterday, and then also poking at Mark's patch for security, since that was on a schedule.

I shall try to work on testimonials this weekend. That task has been waiting too long!