Muzak. Hacking my as-yet-unnamed PyQt hack to Devin Townsend's latest album Physicist. What a guy. I just go out and buy his CDs (SYL I & II, Ocean Machine, Infinity, Christeen and now this) and I haven't been disappointed with one. Nobody mixes extremely fast and heavy grooves with melody like he does - no matter which genre you put him in, be it prog rock, melodic rock, death, speed or black metal, the established bands had better watch out. Of course having Gene Hoglan (after chatting with him last year, I can see why he's such an aggressive drummer), Jed and Byron on your side doesn't hurt, and his production is spot on as usual. Maybe I'll be able to meet him in Vancouver and give him a big hug for all the hundreds of hours of sonic happiness he's given me. :)
Unnamed PyQt Project. Wrote a psql-like utility to use with gadfly in 40 lines. Rip out the command line and put in a QListView-based query browser - 45 lines. I like python, I love Qt. Writing a cbb clone is just not a challenge, I estimate around 200 LOC. I'll implement it and then aim a little higher. I want to be able to do expenditure and balance projections, and really take advantage of the fact that I've got a fullblown SQL engine built into my app.
Oh my God. I'm doing financial programming again VOLUNTARILY after promising to myself I'd never do it again after my stint at AXA. Hmmmm... what's changed? Maybe it's coz I'm not dealing with actuarial systems guys this time, nor with that horror C++ Builder. Admitted, it's very very basic as yet but who knows where this will lead.
I can almost see the actuaries grinning. Welcome, welcome young man, back to the joys of programming money. Welcome back to the fold.
*shudder*
Noted that gadfly doesn't fully implement the current Python Database API spec. Maybe I can fix some of that and send the author a patch. Being able to rip out gadfly and plug in another transactional SQL server is very important to me.