I’ve been off LJ for a week. Both reading and writing. Not for any reason beyond, I’ve been a little too busy.<\/p>\n
Last week was New Years Eve and this week saw me stepping in for a sick clergy member to do mass on short notice and also teaching the first part of my class on Hebrew. At the end of this week I am assisting with an initiation ritual for my church.<\/p>\n
The reason I’m posting today and getting myself back on LJ is that I actually have something I want to babble about. I looked around the office and since I’m the only one here there was no one I could talk to about what I did.<\/p>\n
When a performer performs or an artist creates you can show it to anyone and they can go ‘oooh’ or ‘ugh’… When you code and accomplish something, you just don’t have the same audience.<\/p>\n
The below is some of what I do in a day and the feeling of accomplishment. Most of what’s here will probably make next to zero sense to my average reader. But I will confide that the accomplishment does give me the reaction of seeing my team make a touchdown in an important game.<\/p>\n
And to think, my coworker said that I needed some code to get passionate about. He has no idea \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
If you are curious about this and want me to further explain or would like to learn more about this, feel free to comment in this journal and I’ll answer questions as best I can. I will also attempt not to betray any NDA’s about what I’m actually working on \ud83d\ude42 A precursor to this is that I am entirely self-taught. My experience in the industry over the last 10 years has kept me from the minutia of data-structures classes that I would have acquired had I actually been a CS major. Most of the stuff I would have gotten out of these classes comes from self-innovation rather than, “oh yeah, we learned that. Only die-hard unix’y geeks ever really deal with this.” Granted, if this is something really cool, I’d like to mark it patent pending right here and now and leave it at that. Personally, I think this may just be something others have done and I’ve gotten a warm fuzzy at least figuring it out on my own.<\/p>\n I am currently trying to wrap a set of C libraries and structures into an Obj-C framework. The data itself comes in a series of linked nodes:<\/p>\n
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\nSort of cross posted to <\/a>macosxdev<\/a> journals.<\/p>\n