2011

A few orders of business heading into the new year…

• My resolution for 2010 to learn to use Emacs properly remains unfulfilled. Despite my flirtation with Eclipse, I’m now back with Emacs and will probably stay there unless I do something Java-related. Eclipse is just too bulky and all-encompassing – my mentality is starting to drift back towards the Unix-y toolset approach. (Yes, I just used Emacs as an example of a tool that isn’t bulky. Shut up.)
• In-progress: Hello World Sudoku in Go.
• There are at least two dangling promises for follow-up posts: the ongoing review of Effective Java and/or critique of Java itself, which I’ll get around to soon; and The Design of Design, which I’ve stalled in reading again, having been distracted by Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, because, as mentioned, it’s by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I mean, come on.