Strewth! One of my photographs was accepted at the Pentax
Photo Gallery. That's surprising because I understand
that an awful lot of very good pictures are declined.
And of course, I had 5 others declined too! ;-)
Anyway, this is it: a shot from Trondheim in Norway.
It's hot here in the Philippines - about 34 degrees all
told. Everyone is out on the terrace chatting while I'm
slaving over a hot computer trying to write an
administrative database for a new (FOSS) program. I'll be
able to release full details about it soon but it will take
a bit of time to get it functional. Okay, that's not the
purpose of FOSS, but I'm trying to get the design and
architecture right first time.
I had fun on the weekend writing an event-handler from
scratch which I managed to do in just a few lines of Python.
Progress is going well and I hope to get something that
works released by the end of May.
Still, it's a relatively peaceful though busy time. I'm
working almost constantly on this software, but I have few
other real pressures. It's a pleasure to be able to work
full-time on a FOSS project and do it the way I want to do
it. I'm happy because this whole time reminds me why I love
programming so much - the constant challenges and beating
them to take more steps toward a final goal of actually
having built something worthwhile.
I'm taking on a lot of roles with this work: interaction
design, programmer, tester, all-round monkey etc. I like the
different colours and flavours that this work brings me -
and if I ever get tired, relaxation here is good, honest and
easy. I'm a lucky man indeed.