Wooha for Friday!

It's finally Friday (not that I had an overly long week...)!

I've found myself becoming the properties window champion here at work, so I've been doing things like writing an expression parser, making constants work, and just generally making the properties window not suck. It's been rather frustrating, but still enjoyable.

I've been super busy around the apt lately, working on random things and just trying to get my life in order after my vacation. I still haven't had the chance to unpack anything! But at least I got my grocery shopping done.

I've started teaching myself .NET programming. I was able to whip out a simple GUI Hello World app in about 30 seconds without bothering with reference materials, but now I'm actually sitting down to read about how everything works. I find myself figuring out how the .NET compiler really works while I read up about it -- it's rather funny. I'll read something and be like "I bet they do this under the hood". Heh. We'll see how well I like the language once I'm actually using it, but at first glance, it looks like a very clean language (C# is, anyways). But then again, C/C++ are very clean language (IMHO) but that doesn't make the Win32 APIs suck any less. ;-) I'm sure you'll hear me prattle about the .NET framework APIs as well.

I am thinking of starting a new section for Ramblings -- New Things. Ya know how you hear that you learn something new every day? Well, I'm thinking about sharing the things that I just learn when I remember to write them down. I think it'd be fun to look back on them and go "man, was I really that stupid back then?" or see if other people knew about it as well. :: shrugs :: we'll see tho!