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Thanks to Steve I now have a sidebar I can write my blog posts into. Now I just have to integrate the functionality of Duncan's weblogger bookmarklet into this sidebar so I don't have to copy-paste the URLs and page titles (and selected text as a quote) manually.
Long article about CLR
Cam linked to this one. It's a good one to read if you're wondering about the true cross-platform cross-language environment.
JavaLobby: One Runtime to Bind Them All
bbum on XP (the _real_ XP)
TechRepublic interviewed Bill Bumgarner about CodeFab's use of eXtreme Programming. I'm a big believer in XP. Unfortunately I haven't been able to work in a shop that truly embraced it.
TechRepublic: A development shop turns to XP to take on the cost of change
Whenever I talk to people about XP they always poo-poo pair programming. Every time I've had a chance to do it I've been absolutely sure it's worth it. Bill very clearly explains why it's a good thing. I can't understand managers who don't think it's important to spread the knowledge of a project among the entire development team. I think insulating developers in silos of knowledge and experience is a fatally-flawed approach.
Thursday, February 7, 2002
Victoria, BC
We made it home yesterday around 3:30 PM, after taking the 1 PM ferry from Vancouver.
Going through the border was a piece of cake! We told the border guard what was going on, he gave us a paper to show the customs official, which we did, he asked us some questions, and then sent us on our way! I was worried that they might want to go through our U-Haul truck. That would have sucked. The super-strong-winds, rain and temperature (5 celsius) may have contributed to their decision to not interfere with our trip. ;-)
The water was pretty choppy, compared to the majority of my ferry trips, but the ferry wasn't topsy-turvy at all. Those new ferries are tough.
We went straight to the U-Haul storage place, and unloaded about 3/4 of the truck. The people there weren't very helpful. The can-do attitude was definitely lost with them (the U-Haul folks in Vacaville and Redding were very helpful nice, on the other hand).
Later this morning we'll finish unpacking.
Catching up on good things
Lots of stuff to catch up on. The Script Meridian community appears to have revived itself... that's a good thing.
UserLand has finally delivered the Simple Cross-Network Scripting system described in April of 1998. That is a very good thing.
Nicholas Riley has released F-Script Anywhere, making it possible to browse and hack all the internal objects and classes (via F-Script, obviously) of any Cocoa application. That is an extremely good thing.
Seth is an uncle! Congratulations to everyone involved!
Once I have a little more time I'd like to reflect on what's been happening with my situation and talk about the future.
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Lynnwood, WA -- home tomorrow
We made it all the way to Lynnwood tonight. That's something like 90 miles from the Canada-US border.
I hate going through Grants Pass (aka Swaine's World). Every time I go through there the weather and road conditions are terrifying. Today was the best conditions I've seen through there but they were still the worst of the trip by far and quite nerve-wracking. No offense, but I don't see the point of having the I-5 go through there. If I had the choice I'd tunnel under it and come out past the snow zone. It must have some industrial or tourism significance to have the highway go through there. What a nightmare.
I'm so sick of eating fast-food.
Seattle looks nice at night. I'm glad we got past it though, so we won't have to deal with all its traffic tomorrow morning.
I hope the border-guards are nice to us tomorrow!
