Well, it didn’t start off promising because I woke up in the middle of the night with an upset stomach and spasming back muscles. But we got home fairly uneventfully. And I even got to fly a bit of an ILS in IMC. Not well, but I did.
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Category: Revelation
Through footless halls of air
We flew the Lance to Pittsburgh last night. It was glorious.
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First you work, then you play
It’s been a beautiful weekend, so I decided this afternoon to go out and fly a bit just to keep my hand in.
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Should I or Shouldn’t I?
The new version of this blog software, WordPress 2.3, is out. And evidently it breaks some plugins. Many of the plugins I use haven’t been updated in years, and aren’t listed on the list of “known broken” or “known working” plugins. One I like a lot is listed as broken, and hasn’t been updated in a while, which makes me think that if I upgrade I’m going to have to do without it. Also, my theme is heavily customized, so I’m not sure if it will work.
So do I wait, or do I upgrade now and accept that lots of things are going to be broken?
Gwit? W00t!
On the revelation that my boss had a skunk works project going to prototype a new client/server version of the user interface in Flash, I was appalled. So I suggested that he investigate Google Web Toolkit (GWT). I hadn’t actually done all that much reading about GWT, but it seemed like a really cool idea – you write both client and server side of your app in Java, test it in an Google Hosted Browser and debug it using your favourite Java debugger, and then when it’s ready, compile the client side to AJAXy Javascript.
My boss came back with a counter proposal – why don’t I investigate GWT, produce a small prototype, and he’ll evaluate it side by side with the Flash project. Of course, the person doing the Flash project has a 3 month lead on me, but hey, I’m up to a challenge.
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