A moment in the life
Apr. 14th, 2012 11:13 amIt's saturday morning, two weeks and a day since the wedding. The Wife has slept in, as is her wont. The day is amazingly gorgeous, only a few clouds in the sky. The cats have come in and out a bit, and the birds are ... twittering. Or chirping.
I've been pushing around thoughts about a Sudoku solver/generator. My current randomized implementation is hideously inefficient. Feh. I want to get my understanding of backtracking significantly better: my understanding from this is going to guide the core of an automated stock trading system I want to put together.
I have some other ideas for coding going, including some iPhone apps and a webapp, but the stock trader seems the most interesting right now. Probably the least lucrative to start out with...
The iphone apps I want to write in Lisp. Objective C makes me want to barf, it's like "C with gotchas", and XCore is hands-down the worst IDE I've had this misfortune to use. Plus the online help, outside of Apple forums and StackOverflow, seems to be entirely full of copy and paste posers. Yuck. I figure that I will put together an iPhone framework for Embedded Common Lisp and use that for the webapp. I'd like to release the framework, but I'm not sure how the open source licences play with Apple. Worst case will be BSD, I suppose (rather prefer AGPL3, all things considered... )
The webapp I've slated to work on in the fall; it may or may not pan out. It essentially would be a website generator /combined/ with playing website guy for small businesses. I think that it might be able to work for the late adopter crowd. I've seen some tremendously horrid small business websites. Wordpress and Drupal just look too yick for me to want to go there, so I am fussing with other solutions. Of course my geek solution is to write my own, but NIH might not be the best idea (or is it? It's always considered a bad idea to outsource your core business idea). Possibly a fork of a simple CMS? I don't know.
Long term, I don't want to be working for a large/midsize company, that's for sure. I'm in it now, and I appreciate the resources at my disposal, but the amount of leverage you get in those companies is heavily contrained by politics and how close you are to the guy on the top of the money-making chain. Kind of a pain being at the lower end of the monkey pole.... I anticiapte small business/startups to be my natural home, if not outright self-employed. However, startups live in only a few areas, and small businesses are more hit and miss in terms of wanting to hire a software engineer. Self employment, that'd be rad: but someone has to want to hire me.
Ah well. Ah well. Keep on keepin' on, as I once heard.
I've been pushing around thoughts about a Sudoku solver/generator. My current randomized implementation is hideously inefficient. Feh. I want to get my understanding of backtracking significantly better: my understanding from this is going to guide the core of an automated stock trading system I want to put together.
I have some other ideas for coding going, including some iPhone apps and a webapp, but the stock trader seems the most interesting right now. Probably the least lucrative to start out with...
The iphone apps I want to write in Lisp. Objective C makes me want to barf, it's like "C with gotchas", and XCore is hands-down the worst IDE I've had this misfortune to use. Plus the online help, outside of Apple forums and StackOverflow, seems to be entirely full of copy and paste posers. Yuck. I figure that I will put together an iPhone framework for Embedded Common Lisp and use that for the webapp. I'd like to release the framework, but I'm not sure how the open source licences play with Apple. Worst case will be BSD, I suppose (rather prefer AGPL3, all things considered... )
The webapp I've slated to work on in the fall; it may or may not pan out. It essentially would be a website generator /combined/ with playing website guy for small businesses. I think that it might be able to work for the late adopter crowd. I've seen some tremendously horrid small business websites. Wordpress and Drupal just look too yick for me to want to go there, so I am fussing with other solutions. Of course my geek solution is to write my own, but NIH might not be the best idea (or is it? It's always considered a bad idea to outsource your core business idea). Possibly a fork of a simple CMS? I don't know.
Long term, I don't want to be working for a large/midsize company, that's for sure. I'm in it now, and I appreciate the resources at my disposal, but the amount of leverage you get in those companies is heavily contrained by politics and how close you are to the guy on the top of the money-making chain. Kind of a pain being at the lower end of the monkey pole.... I anticiapte small business/startups to be my natural home, if not outright self-employed. However, startups live in only a few areas, and small businesses are more hit and miss in terms of wanting to hire a software engineer. Self employment, that'd be rad: but someone has to want to hire me.
Ah well. Ah well. Keep on keepin' on, as I once heard.