Finally fixed a bug that’s been bothering me for a day. I’m amazed at how much different the programming is “up here.”
In many ways interacting with the operating system is a fairly straightforward thing: There are some system calls, they return some errors. In CoreFoundation and Foundation, we layer more sophisticated behaviors around those calls to make them easier to use, or to provide new facilities.
As soon as a user gets involved, things get infinitely more complicated. Interaction must be taken in to account. Designing the user experience takes time and effort, and designing and writing APIs to support a user experience or interface take a lot of time and effort.
Still, I’m having fun. I miss the low-level stuff, but I’m getting immersed in the things that I’m working on now. It helps.
Yup. Still not a big fan of the gym, but on Sunday I went to the 9:30 AM spin class because I noticed during the ski weekend that while I’m a better skier, Katherine’s in much better shape than I am. This is a shocker, I know.
I made it through the whole class, but I was definitely thoroughly worked over at the end of the session. I suspect despite my aversion to the gym, I’ll be going back next Sunday.
…for a bank robbery in San Francisco:
A Toyota Prius with a KQED bumper sticker.
…and it’s already pretty interesting.
The first day was spent doing the usual getting set up. The second day was trying to get my mind around the sources and straighten out some problems with the version control server.
Today was actually fixing a couple of bugs and doing a code review. I’m excited that I’ve been able to hit the ground running and participate as much as I have already.
I have to admit, I was extremely nervous about changing groups but I’m feeling much better about this whole thing after today.
Just got back from a fantastic ski weekend in Tahoe; the first of the season for Kat and me. We took Friday off and drove up Thursday night. We skied at Sugar Bowl on Friday and Squaw Valley on Saturday.
I made my obligatory run whistling “Tea for Two” which my grandfather taught me was a pretty good cadence for making turns (and he was right). The whistling and the skiing are both bits of family tradition.
I told myself I’d start writing again; but I had to set things up first. I also didn’t want to dink around with customizing things, so I installed WordPress and picked up a likely-seeming theme online.
I’ll try to republish some of my old content and then get started with some code and cooking entries.