Worus

My application works! It’s so cool! I can script file transfers on local disks and to and from FTP sites specifying replacement parameters and all in XML. I’m happy.

Funny how I use the Visual Studio editor as if it’s Vim. I keep pressing the Escape key and wanting to copy entire lines using the “Y” key.

I code so much better at night when no one else is at work. Seriously, getting interrupted sixty million times a day makes it hard to get anything done. The funny thing is that many of the longer interruptions are coming from a “get it done” client. I understand that they want updates, but I really need to stop having thirty minute-plus discussions about things in my office so that I can actually do stuff.

Working all the time has its benefits: I get lots done, and I get excited about what I’m accomplishing. There are also the drawbacks: Constant deadlines. I must fix an XML-parsing bug and then start writing a simple FTP client that can post files and get files based on an XML script.

People can say what they want about .NET, but there is no way that I could accomplish this as fast using another language. While I’m unsure what kind of support the .NET Framework provides for FTP, the speed with which I’ve implemented my config file in self-documenting XML has been amazing. When I go to do the FTP stuff, I will eventually want to make it multi-threaded for response reasons. Once again, the System.Threading API will come to my rescue. I’m not well versed in threading, and I don’t have time to become such right now, so it’s just what the doctor ordered.

I’m rambling, and I should be programming.