2 days a week? Hah!

So, I’m now working 2 days a week as a Ruby on Rails programmer for Bluefountain and, whilst it’s great fun to be back working again, it doesn’t half eat into my free time.

This week marks Matt Fowles’s first Summary posted on Just A Summary (here’s hoping it won’t be the last). We have been writing the Perl 6 Summary on alternate weeks since early last year when Piers returned from attempting to be a Maths teacher and had the time to write summaries again.

Don’t you think he looks tired?

Another year, another summary. You might think I’m going to summarize the events of the whole year, but it turns out that chromatic’s already done it. So in the spirit of laziness, I’ll just point you at his year end summary.

I’m back on the road after a six month ban for accumulating 12 points. Mum and Dad brought my Mini Cooper up with them when they came for our New Year/housewarming party (which went fabulously well, thanks for asking – there’s still not much to touch making music with friends) and, as the clock struck midnight, the fireworks boomed and the last note of Old lang syne made way to the first note of Happy Birthday, I became a legal driver again.

Oh, I know programming language advocacy is a bad thing. But sometimes a chap can’t resist. Chad Fowler commented on an article by Joel Spolsky in which Joel laments the passing of Scheme as a language of CS instruction in favour of Java or some dumbed down subset of it.

My D200 didn’t arrive on the 15th of December. Jacobs are blaming Nikon, Nikon are probably blaming Jacobs. To compound my error, I took the D100 down to the Mill for Christmas, but forgot to take the battery charger. So, no Christmas photos from me.

I just had a moment of clarity. Martin Fowler had a few more things to say about the spat that grew out of his post about Humane Interfaces and I suddenly realised why java types favour a ‘small interfaces and static utility methods on helper classes’. It’s because of the way Java interfaces work.

[Edited to correct an accidental misrepresentation, and again to correct an attribution, and again to correct some code]

Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This has been a week of shootouts, cleanups, relationships and cunning translations. Read on for the details (or, this being a summary, pointers to the details).

A friend just popped up on IRC and pointed me to one of Elliote Rusty Harold’s contributions to the humane interfaces debate that was sparked by Martin Fowler’s post on the subject. I didn’t recognize the URL and ended up rereading it.

2 days the move took and we’ve not started opening boxes. They just kept coming; the kitchen appears to be completely full of boxes claiming to contain china. Maybe they mean the country because I’m sure we don’t have that much crockery.

Today is the first day of our move. We’re only going down the road, but we’ve got a flatload of stuff and a self-store unitload of stuff to amalgamate into one house load of stuff, which means it’s going to be a two day process.

Today has been humbling. I had made some changes to the Typo database schema with the goal of making the code easier to follow and because, dammit, it’s the Right Thing to do.