I’ve been incredibly busy at work again and instead of writing something coherent I’ll just dump my brain in this post. I’ve also developed a very severe case of Nerd ADD.
Earlier this week I hit a snag in my Project Server/Navision integration, lets just say that portions of Project Server’s web service isn’t documented very well. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out researching exactly which functionality the Time Sheet web service exposes; it wasn’t until I found an example on Christophe Fiessinger’s Blog that I finally figured out what I wanted.
Working with Project Server has gotten me excited about programming languages again and I want to learn C# 3.0 and Ruby– C# has gone through some major changes, they’ve added extensions which are similar to Ruby mixins, lambda expressions and anonymous variables, it’s a completely different language now, much more flexible, much less like Java and much more like Ruby.
Tenerife Skunkworks, a Erlang blog has peaked my interest in Erlang and day trading in general. In my former life I was a quant in training and a software developer working on an algorithmic trading platform. Algorithmic trading is resource intensive and our system distributed ‘jobs’ over several computers to manage the processor load, looking back I wish I programmed the core of the system in Erlang instead of C++. That’s hindsight for you. I’d like to get back to my ‘roots’ and work with financial systems again, maybe the FIX protocol or a trading simulator or platform, I should spend some time searching for open source projects that I could get involved in.
I finally got around to installing an evaluation copy of Resharper– I’m disappointed, maybe my expectations were too high, or I haven’t had enough time to use it– while it’s an improvement over the default VS 2005′s interface it still falls behind Eclipse’s refactoring code generation. Does anyone have any Resharper tips for me?
Definitely a severe case of Nerd ADD.
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[...] Erlang lets me solve problems differently. It has concurrency built into its DNA—it’s ideal for building fault-tolerant systems, it also supports hot swappable code– I wish I had it 6 years ago. The old system I worked on was a built on C/C++; if you’ve done worked with pthreads you know how painful it can be to debug a multi-threaded program. Creating a performant and fault-tolerant system is immensely challenging and I was constantly fighting the language, not to mention that I had to come in to work at 5:30 AM to update the system with the latest code. If I could go back in time I would build the server layer in Erlang. [...]
Shey’s Rebellion » Blog Archive » On Erlang. - 11 Feb 08 at 9:59 pm