What Gets You Hired

I've been having a really interesting conversation with Val and Avonelle about what it takes to get hired in the software industry (Jake has chimed in as well with his thoughts). It's an interesting read, so I'd suggest going and checking it out. I'm not going to steal Val's thunder, so go give it a read if you're interested.

Work was rather boring today. I finished up a few more regression tests and then started back in on v6 features. I finally got rid of the annoying internal "hidden" events showing up in the code browser, so I got the IDE to yank those. Then I went and renamed all the deprecated items so we're no longer putting the deprecated ones on by default. And it was about that time when I got an email from a coworker letting me know that they broke my console support! Ack! I just got that crap done last week and it's busted already. :: sighs :: oh well, hopefully we'll have that mess cleaned up before the next alpha.

On the plate for tomorrow is adding some more dialogs to the IDE. I have to do our preferences dialog (oh goodie...) as well as the templates dialog so you can actually create console applications in an intuitive way. Heh, currently you can make them by holding down Shift when selecting File->New. There's your RB 6 easter egg for the day. :-P

It's been nice the last few days around the apt because I stopped working on my side project. I love coding, but it gets to be a bit too much when I do it at work and then try to do it at home for too many days in a row. I end up feeling like I never really left work and so I get crabby (just ask Lis!). I've come to the conclusion that I really can only work on side projects on the weekends when I can take breaks for part of the day from programming.

On a side note -- whoever at UT (in the engineering building, it appears) that's been posting massive amounts of Your Mom comments in everyone's blog, is about to get everyone from UT campus' class B IP block blocked from viewing this domain. It was funny at first, but has lost it's charm and is now just aggravating. Other people's blogs can deal with you as they see fit -- but I'm bored of it and tend to prefer heavy-handed solutions to polite ones. For those of you who are interested, the IP range to block is 128.83.X.X if you want to hit the entire UT campus. The IP that shows up most often is 128.83.206.2XX as well as 68.90.173.41 (Southwestern Bell DSL connection). If the annoying posts stop, then I won't bother with the block. But if they continue, I'll either turn on comment moderation (which sucks for everyone) or just ban all of UT (which sucks for a few good people).