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                    JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 10TH APRIL, 2014
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SUBJECT: Plodding on...
   DATE: Thu 10 Apr 21:18:46 BST 2014

UPDATED: Originally I said the keyboard had scissor switches. I was actually
thinking of another compact keyboard. The one here is actually rubber domes.

Oh wow! What a busy week it has been. Started off with email issues at work.
Continued with the OpenSSL heartbleed[1][2] vulnerability. Wednesday finished
with more email issues. During all of this *ALL* of our customers seem to have
woken up and wanted work doing - a good thing but please not everybody all at
once! ;)

After talking about keyboards and the mighty IBM Model M last time I find
myself using a cheap, compact, rubber dome, USB keyboard. Why? My main desktop
is currently 'otherwise engaged' displaying monitoring for a number of
systems. Therefore I'm using a Raspberry Pi, SSH and GNU screen to connect to
my main desktop and write this post :) Unfortunately my Happy Hacking keyboard
only has a PS/2 connector - being a very early model - so I rummaged around
and found a USB keyboard. It has a UK layout instead of a US one. After
remapping some keys and judicious use of little squares of masking tape and a
pen I was happier - although a few of the keys are still in weird places...

Enough of the hardware, what about software?

After the last few days I really wanted to get down to some coding on WolfMUD.
I turned off all of the lights except for a small desk lamp, closed the web
browser and other distractions, turned off the second monitor, made some fresh
coffee and just focused on some programming.

Well I say programming... if you remember from last time I was in the middle
of splitting up and reorganising a large number of commits. I turns out that
committing everything to a WIP (work in progress) branch in Git was not such a
great idea. Still thing are going quite well and my mess is nearly sorted out.

At least it is making me review and pick over my own code more. Several times
I've wondered 'why did I do that!?'.

Maybe I shouldn't be as picky trying to make sure after each commit the code
is compilable and runnable... *sigh*

--
Diddymus

  [1] For more information see: http://heartbleed.com

  [2] Wikipedia Heartbleed article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed


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