Two days in a row? Well, I guess that’s what happens when I wake up before 4am and don’t feel like heading to work just yet.
Which is kind of odd. Yesterday was an interrupted day at work, as the roof workers drove a screw into one of the main power conduits that supplies a half-dozen offices at work, including mine. In spite of that, I still managed to have a good day, finishing up a feature that I spent all last week working on. And because of the heavy rain here yesterday afternoon and evening, they won’t be working this morning, so I should get in there and get more work done while the office is relatively quiet.
Or I could be plowing through the 150 emails in my inbox. If you’re waiting on a reply from me, sorry. I’m more than a little behind on email. But instead of doing something more “productive,” I’m taking a few minutes to post a little something here.
- Jim sent word yesterday of A “Simulated” WMD Threat here in the Twin Cities. Seems a bunch of zombies were dancing, and well, what’s not threatening about that? They’ve been released from custody, but it’s unclear whether charges are pending or not. [jim]
- At work I’ve been trying to find some automated refactoring tool because I keep screwing up fairly simple refactorings becauuse there’s a reference in some other file that I don’t notice until too late. So I tried Eclipse with the Eclipse CDT, and I have to agree that Eclipse “Sucks,” especially if you’re coming from a Mac C++ perspective. Yeah, I know, I know, there’s no money in tools, but damnit, I’m working for a ginormous corporation that would probably be happy to pay if I could find a tool that actually worked. I just can’t find anything to buy. I’ve also tried Aquamacs plus Xrefactory. I don’t think I can begin to explain how frustrating it is to see books like Fowler’s and Feathers’ and think
This is cool stuff!
only to discover that there exist exactly zero automatic tools to help me get it right.