Sideways Blinders May 27 2006
So it’s been a long time since my last post - far too fucking long. Lots of shit has happened in the month or so since the last time I bothered to blog anything, so expect a good few catch-up posts. In the meantime, some kind of summary is in order.
Last time I posted I was in the middle of a five-day UML course - it was good, I learnt a lot, but I’m yet to really put any of it to use, and so I’m hoping I’ll find an opportunity to do so (where it makes sense, not where I’m doing it for the sake of doing it). Also, the lack of decent modelling tools makes me chuckle somewhat, all of them are either shite, or are too expensive, claiming to be able to practically write the fucking applications for you based upon a couple of class diagrams. That’s not the purpose I want to use UML for - I want to use it as a way to get down on paper the architecture and structure of libraries and apps that I dream up in my head. It then acts as decent system structure documentation. I then build it myself from that, and undoubtedly because code is code, I’ll realise along the way my original structure wasn’t perfect. I’ll amend, re-think, and re-iterate. Agile development seems to work perfectly hand in hand with this idea, small iterations, tighter development cycles. I’m starting to really dig it.
So what else? Well I’ve moved house now - after what must have been 7 or 8 weeks of playing the solicitor shuffle, I finally moved in with my girlfriend, into the house we bought together. It’s been a very busy time, and I’ve loved every minute of it. I’ve built more furniture in the last few weeks than I ever have done in my previous twenty years combined. We’ve been moved in two and a half weeks now, and there are now no boxes, everything is pretty much tidy now, it’s amazing. Actually scrub that, my girlfriend, Andie, is amazing. I’m responsible for getting TV’s, PC’s, audio systems, broadband, telephones (the easy stuff) up and running, but she has been stunning at tidying, cleaning, getting everything in tip-top shape. I’m a lucky, lucky man.
Speaking of broadband, it took longer than it should (fucking monopolies) to get the phone line up and running, but then I got the broadband sorted out fairly quickly, and so now have a wireless network setup with all my machines up and running again. I hadn’t been able to work on anything for around two weeks, so now I’m edging back into it, tackling a few little things first before I delve headfirst once more into my massive bag of ideas and continue working on a few of the big things I had planned before the move.
That’s it for now, expect more soon.
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