Current plans for the weekend aren’t anything astounding, but cataloged here in for you “enjoyment”.
Tonight I’ve got some development for me on my plate. There are a few kinks in the software currently running on this site that I should address, list of which I’m keeping over here . Aside from that list of features there is some issues with the publish system I recently deployed here. New articles are publishing be default it appears and removing an article from publication is also having issues. This of course pretty much makes the feature useless without some modification of the db directly. Something I avoid doing on a “production” system. Oh well learn rails by getting your feet wet is the best principle. I’ll also have to create some notes about Rails and MySQL DateTime format, basically don’t try setting that nil/null even if the db schema allows it.
Another project I plan on spending some time working on Pogo, which is a replacement for Bayden Slickrun . I use this program excessively but some rather annoying issues in it’s interaction have forced my hand to write a replacement. I’ve got the projected start in C#, but had stepped away from it for a few weeks to address this site and a few other server tasks. The author of SlickRun is actually writing a new iteration of the application also in C# (stepping away from Delphi) but the progress has been so slow that I’m not sure if it’s stopped completely. As with most of my personal projects this is another learning experience, this time C#. I’ve found the language pleasant, much smoother then my VB.NET/COM application for PayWi.
If I don’t work on Pogo, I may instead make some small modifications to the engine running this site, create a new layout and finally launch Pocketdev.net . The issue there is dedicating the entire weekend to getting some good initial articles on Brew development written up.
Look for an article about the MySQL / DateTime issue sometime tomorrow.