having fun
by bear
parsedatetime
I must admit I’ve been having fun doing all the little things that are required to support a library/package. There has already been a couple of questions on the mailing list for parsedatetime and even a feature request! Which I was able to implement and it should be in the next version.
Part of the fun is all the little things that were put into the “I’ll do that when it’s ready to be released” pile that suddenly I realized needed to be done: generated docs, make sure the API is as clean and simple as can be, read the code like your a user, etc.
All basic stuff but it needed doing and with even more unit tests I can make sure that each round of cleanup doesn’t introduce subtle bugs - good stuff.
WWDC 2006
It was fun watching the WWDC Keynote speech tonight – a lot of little bits of code-candy to look at now, but I think the really fun stuff is happening tomorrow when some of the OSAF crew are helping to demo the CALDAV connectivity that sounds like will be a part of the new OS X version.
Most of what they were showing were “meh” items to be honest. Sure they really looked good and you know that the feature sets will be pushing the right buttons, but really - did we really need HTML templates for mail? But for sure the demo of TimeTravel and also of the new ToDo and Notes features was very cool. I couldn’t help but notice how the ToDo and Notes toolbar icons looked a lot like, and behaved like, the stamping items Chandler does :)