A busy new year
Over the past few months I’ve been working on several confidential projects. They have prevented me from spending much time on *new* technology. Though, one of the projects has involved a new Database, and has been interesting.
I have been thinking about my goals for the year.
- I will complete porting my main codebase to Visual Studio 2010.
- I will complete my F# tour.
- I will completely clean my office.
It isn’t that my office is a huge mess, rather, it has a lot of older items stored in it. For example, I can count 6 blank VHS tapes sitting on a shelf. Getting ride of all the old items, and reorganizing the equipment that I actually use would allow me to gain a huge amount of space.
With that complete, I would be able to buy a few metal racks and finally put all the systems in one place. Last year, I “found” two operating routers when I was moving a printer. I’m not sure what bothered me more; that I had forgotten about them or that they were buried so deeply under cables that they were not visible.
My goal is to have everything on racks, visible, with cables zip tied neatly.
I was enjoying my progress with F#, and can’t wait to get back into it. The immutability coupled with threading excites me a great deal.
The Visual Studio 2010 release seems to have corrected the flaws introduced with the 2005 and 2008 releases. My C++ benchmarking has shown it to be almost as fast as Visual Studio 2003, and a bit faster when PGO was used. Once the mobile SDKs are available, I may be able to migrate all my active projects to it.
