The journey in .NET continues - in the meanwhile there are many things to preoccupy, inspire and daunt along the way.
For inspiration, a few things caught my eye today. One was an article on 'Structured Procrastinating' by John Perry, a philosopher at Stanford. Nice to hear there are people whose workload makes mine look like a walk in the park. There is also an interesting article on Time Management from the good old folks at A List Apart.
Moment of honesty: I'm hell bent on becoming an illustrator. At least a better one. When I teach I usually draw a lot on the whiteboard, but I'd like to persist some of that stuff to the web. More inspiration and preoccupation came from illustrations by Jeff Tolbert and amazing information diagrams (xplanations) by the clowns over at xplane. I admire them so much! My ideas about illustration are more in the technical/programming arena. Today I drew some visual explanations (if you could call them that) for SQL Server Indexing architecture and SQL Views. I'm so far from professional illustration, but got to start somewhere, no?
I'm almost done with my first version of a project called AISI. I used to like the name but it now seems unnecessarily cryptic. All it means is "An Idea Seeking Implementation": some unfinished thought you'd like to get to some day but don't have time for at present. You enter it into a web based database and KAZZAM! it is there whenever you want to get back to it. Not difficult to write but I'm doing it in Visual Studio .NET. Yesterday I spent about an hour and a half debugging a stored procedure. Not fun. I was going to make strides tonight but my back and stomach hurt. It reminds me of a funny story I read about being a programmer and getting "broke down". Anyway, as soon as AISI is done I'll post a link here so that anybody who cares can go troll with my stuff. The source code will be available too - for what it's worth.
Okay, enough babble. You still here? Go on, get out of here.
9:39:53 PM 
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