Tales From The Trenches

Hello all!, this entry sat around a while before posting. I'm working on some new content, specifially for microformats, standards development, and ruby on rails.

I know I have been a bad blogger. No Posts for a week and abit! There was a good reason. I got busy working on solving problems and lost track of the days. So I'm back and have some stuff to blog about.

First off, desk ergonomics. I think a desk is like a bed, you need to roll over every now and again so I have moved from the 90 degree corner of my desk that I like to work in to the full 180 degree space availible. Boy am I uncomfortable but its still refreshing to simply move a foot to the left. It has the effect of giving you a new perspective on your work and can actually change your mood about a grate many things.

Eclipse rant: Do you see that image above? Ya? Well I'm sick of seeing it for 10 minutes at a time. It kills workflow and makes me wonder sometimes if eclipse is broken or what. Its a small rant but some one needs to look into that for me. A viable solution would be to place execution threads into hibernation after a time out and let waiting methods execute. This would involve some sort of concequence rating on operations. I'll have to think about this some more...

CSS the Fun the Joy: So I have to bring myself up to speed on creating specific generic style sheets. That is, the normal way style sheets are used is that the html gets written and then you create the style sheets to go along with it. In our case we are doing it the other way. Can anyone say "nail in the foot". I thought it was a good idea at the time but now I just need to learn to dig in an upward direction. I got a fe books on it that we are passing around the office here I'll let you know what I think of them after I have them read.