Friday, March 04, 2005

i like this quote from nat friedman from Planet GNOME...

"users should like us for our software, not for our working habbits..."

somewhat related to the issue of code quality... code quality fades into the background once the binary is shipped... users will never know how elegantly the code was designed or how much sleepless nights it has incurred on us codaholics... at the end of the day, all that matters is how good the user experience is...

but code quality can undeniably lead to a better binary product... so its not an excuse to at least learn the basics of producing high quality code... there must always be a balance of things... i have read somewhere that linus torvalds strives to have code that can be easily understood by many, while alan cox cares more about stability or code that reliably works (at the expense of code quality)...

Thursday, March 03, 2005

been rather busy (who isn't anyways?)... we moved to the 3rd floor, previously a first floor dweller on this hole in a wall type apartments... a bit cramped since this one has two rooms and a real kitchen but almost same sized as old one... a bit safer here since i could go out the patio even at 3am in the morning... new computer table, more conducive to coding...

been also very busy refactoring the message filters at work.... i like these new setup better... most things can be configured via spring's applicationcontext.xml... still cant make wap work, so its frustratingly annoying... cant find a decent debugger that runs directly on the mobile phone...

pareng edwin, sensya na, i still owe you that PICS M-congress cd... will advice you next week if we can meet in makati...the entire cd contents can still be downloaded here... but will still try to give you the cd next week...

oh well, just too weak and too busy... frantically remembering how to smile and how to be happy.... hopefully i get to go home to bicol on the 18th... the sight of mayon in legaspi can definitely be refreshing... better get ready to pack the clie with a good amount of ebooks... still halfway thru lessig's "free culture"... interesting arguments on intellectual property rights and it's relative history...