Archive for 4 October 2008

Look in the future, continuation

I experience realy much lazyness in my life lately. Few past months - not even a single line of code. Some projects suspended, some of them didn’t begin just because I couldn’t make myself to do that. For now D&D Character Creator will not start for sure. I’ve heard, that there is a program, that do exactly what I wanted to implement.

If it comes to my current work I started writing next version of my application, which I wrote for my own purpose in my job. I didn’t put it here, because it’s completly useless anywhere but my company. Now I’m trying to make a version usable on any computer (probably MS Windows only). Generaly application is for massive runing of different applications, and will have own timer (those are things, I can impement without access to my company specific systems).

What do I do right now instead of programming? Well… I bought a book - “Thinking in Java” Edition IV by Bruce Eckel. I think, this book is really godd written. Very much basic information, but he mentions about good programming practices in general, and implementations of a few mechanisms in Java Virtual Machine.

Next I’m going to read “Thinking in Patterns” by the same author, and then I’ll learn about a JBoss tool. Well… To be honest I don’t know a thing about this, but I have to study it because of my career I plan. As soon as I finish, my projects will run again. If I’ll fine some interesting solutions for a different problems by the time I’ll study, I’ll write it for sure. To the next post then.

P.S.
There is an amount of books available on the Bruce Eckel’s Mindview company site. In most cases those are previous editions of books available at the market.

Posted on 4 October 2008
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