Older blog entries for czw (starting at number 25)

Woke up today and felt like spending some of my money on useless stuff that would be neat to have. Started off by getting an eye examination an trying out lenses (I wear glasses). At the end of the day, I had bought a corner sofa made out of genuine leather with six seats. Talk about impulse buying...

CoolCloset is progressing nicely, my plan to release a pretty much working version this weekend could actually become a reality. Thank God for coffee.

There is definitively a difference in taste when making coffee in a percolator and in a regular filter brewer. I am not quite sure about what is responsible for the difference, but there is probably something in the paper filter that gets transferred into the wonderful black fluid. Coffee from a percolator, which has a metal filter, just tastes better in every way I can think of.

Finally managed to beat Diablo 2. This means that next week will be filled with source code creation. My code does not contain bugs (yeah right), so bug fixing is not an issue right now. With a little luck, I can release a first test version of CoolCloset next weekend. Oh, joy.

Been playing this game called Diablo 2 all week. Damn, this game is addictive! Will try to drag myself away from it this weekend for some serious Java coding. I have a lot of work to do, actually...

On a totally separate note: there is a vonderful girl living in the swedish town Uddevalla, and her name is Evelina. If she ever reads this - my heart is with you...

Got my copy of Diablo 2 yesterday. Not only that, I also recieved "The art of Programming", three books by Donald Knuth. Let's just say that there will not be much coding this weekend...

Been coding Java both for work and for fun today. My pet project is coming along slow and steady. The first component, Cool Closet, will be released as soon as it reaches feature-completion and zarro boogs ( == close-to-zero bugs, you can never reach zero bugs). All other components will be released as one application, since there is very little practical use in separating them.

If any of the original MFC developers sees this note: a nice, big, warm "fuck you" for creating such a piece of crap. After working with high-quality GUI classes in both Borland C++ Builder and Swing (Java), seeing this hairy beast appear is nothing less than repulsive and/or disgusting.

Been doing some more Java coding. The half-secret project I am planning is coming along just fine. Funny thing - Java applications are no slower than usual applications, it's just the startup time that separates them.

After some time of non-coding, I have started working on Tebax again. It is now available in both swedish and english, thanks to a nifty feature found in C++ Builder 5. After polishing that and making some documentation other than the source code, a new version could probably be released. This would be the first english version.

My brother is here again. Say no more.

First day at work today. As you might expect, not very much actual work was done. The flash cold that I have recieved does not help me to think clearly either. Anyhow, I feel much better now.

Recieved a copy Borland C++ Builder 5 Enterprise today. This thing has got a boatload of both useful and useless components. It gave me one of the most clean crashes that I have ever seen - it simply disappeared without a trace or an error.

This week has been and will continue to be consisting of two things: beer and more beer. You might figure out pretty easy how much productive work I am going to accomplish now...

Did almost nothing productive this weekend. Got a visit from my brother who immediately occupied my computer, since I have a 10Mbit connection in my home and he is stuck with a 56Kbit modem. Huge party on saturday where just about everyone who lives in the neighbourhood gathered together and got really drunk. Sunday is hangover day. Horray.