Matthew Trump's Radio Weblog

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Much of my recent flurry of coding was developing a SOAP web service called Orbitarium. About six months ago, I'd gotten my act together and finally released a stable version of a Java library of astrodynamical classes for calculating the positions of the planets of the Solar System.

I'd wanted to use these classes in some kind of web service, just for fun I suppose. In February I finally got around to doing this. Of course, when I sat down to code the web service, I realized that there was a lot of things about the underlying astrodynamical engine that I wanted to fix first. So I spent a week just doing that.

That's the way I usually work. I'm too comprehensive to get things done, I think. I start out to do one thing, and I immediately put myself three steps backwards, in the hole, having to dig myself out before I even get to what I considered to be the "starting point."

12:57:12 PM