Friday, January 19, 2007
Blogging for blogging's sake 
I have ignored this blog for long enough. I want to keep it at least semi-active. I'll try to post something useful here at least once a week or so.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
WordPress Rules!
I've been neglecting this blog in favor of my Wordpress blog. I really like the new features in 2.0. I hope they've fixed their security issues. I'd hate to get hacked again. I need to set up an automatic, periodic backup of the database so that doesn't happen.
Monday, July 10, 2006
WordPress 2.0 is Much Better than WordPress 1.5
I installed WordPress 2.0 on my site last week. I am just getting used to having the site up again. I love the new user interface. I especially like the addition of multiple roles that users can be assigned. I haven't really investigated all the other new features very much yet.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
More Rambles on Code
I have been thinking about code a lot lately. I am coming to the end of a very challenging and rewarding year long project in Java. I have verified my intuition that although Java may be a bit verbose and anal about type checking, the code that you write in Java ends up being much more robust. Especially compared to code with equivalent functionality written in C++. C++ is a mine field of hidden gotchas. You have to be a very alert and experienced programmer to write good C++ code.
I'm not sure what my next project will be. I hope it won't be the C++ task that I have waiting in the wings in case I don't find anything else. Only slightly higher on my list is updating a 10 year old Common Lisp application and adapting it to a new, slightly different problem domain. The main problem with that project is not the lisp code per se but rather the CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager) graphics library code that it uses.
I actually hope I can find another Java application. I'd love to have a chance to do a medium sized Ruby project but there is a ban on Ruby where I work. I personally think the ban is due to insecurity on the part of the Java gurus but I could be wrong. After all, I am one of the Java gurus and I have embraced Ruby. But that's another story.
