• 12:27 A.M.
  awkwardperfect

Over the last month or so, I've used more new scripting and programming languages and their funky config files than the last 3 years combined. All this crazy adaptation, and the installation of servers, macros, and documentation to go with - what is it teaching me? It turns out that it's primarily making me proficient at reconfiguring my text editor. This seems kind of stupid at first, but when I highlight a word and hit Ctrl-4, the various definitions and relevant method docs in the Java SDK documentation pop up automatically. I know Java developers who are still flipping through the web docs a page at a time when they need to look something up. I've got macros for the most common servlet response and request method definitions available with one key-chord. This saves a ton of typing and eliminates the possibility of typo for that span of text. I've got context highlighting which knows more about JSP than I do. Yeah, that figures. Anyway, my process is improving. I'm feeling pretty good about my knowledge of design patterns and n-tier methodologies. I'ma go get a freakin job. all my leisure time non-programming writing is done at the very last second before sleep, in the almost-fall-off-the-chair brainwave state. (which is now.)

In fact I'd really rather be asleep, there's just one more task left to do. I wonder what it is? It's probably something to do with the SECRET room (the BATH ROOM). Times like this, the only thing keeping me awake is the steady beep beep of incoming spam notifications. I think talking about applets, servlets, and scriptlets is giving me a speech impedimlent. blet blet blet