2011 – the home stretch
We have started the next project at work. So far it has been a much better experience, but it has *just* started, so we’ll see. It’s completely different from the last projects we’ve done, so we’re back at square one with respect to domain knowledge. That’s not quite true, it’s the same codebase, so we have some idea of what we’re doing. But we’ve not been in this part of the code yet. So a very limited idea.
I’m really enjoying grails development with IntelliJ. I’d spent a non-trivial amount of time writing, or at least thinking of writing (I spend much more time thinking of doing things than I do actually doing them) a system that generates a skeleton application given some sort of XML configuration description (or something similar). I thought Maven’s archetypes were the answer to this, but Grails does a wonderful job (within it’s scope, of course). So, yeah, easy and pleasant so far. My time spent playing with Adobe Flex is possibly wasted, given its forecasted imminent demise, but I have committed to giving a technical talk (to co-workers) on HTML 5, so I suppose I have somewhere to jump.
Speaking of spending more time thinking of stuff than actually doing stuff, I decided that it would behoove me to transition from thinking about getting some sort of daily exercise to actually doing it. To that end I’ve decided to wander around Castlewood State Park at a brisk pace on a regular schedule. So far I’ve done this once. I’ll build on that momentum and do it again tomorrow. Hopefully I can make a habit out of that.
Karen’s been feeling pretty un-well of late. Her legs hurt, she’s nauseous, and her temperature regulation system is unstable. I try to make her comfortable the best I can.
