Feb 10 Update
It is all change here, wordpress theme wise anyway. I spent an evening upgrading wordpress and the various plugins. As usual this made me play with the look of the site and I found a more minimalistic theme. Hopefully you agree it looks better.
I removed some of the advertising and will probably remove the rest at some point. The advertising was not generating much, if any, revenue so reducing the readability of the site to make pennies doesn’t make sense when there are no pennies produced.
This is not me bashing google adsense more a reflection on the fact that most of what I write about either does not have commercial products that advertise with them and perhaps I have readers who are less disposed to click adds. Personally I am well below the average industry figure of click 1 in a hundred ads so I certainly don’t blame you guys and girls for not clicking the generic ads.
Lets see what has been going on the past week of two. I lost focus on programming activities and had a fair amount on lost time… Funny that can happen and once a night or two pass then suddenly a week of little progress has passed.
I am back into programming the next version of DaysUntil (LINK) again it is going to be a small incrememtal release. In some way I treat android programming as a fun little job. I am not learning any hard skills there but I am gradually learning what it take to be successful when developing applications that are being used by other people. Thankfully my 3 main apps I have made have an average rating at or above 4 stars, the funny thing is if I was rating them I would rate a lot lower. Probably the creator seeing all the imperfections rather than the good things.
The more investigation like stuff I have been looking into has been either in Haskell or Javascript. Neither of which I have done much actual writing of code with yet. Why javascript, well I am looking at learning a little bit more about the web and client side javascript is the web. – assuming you want to be able to target all users. Java/Flash/SilverLight all have places they are not reaching yet. Javascript I want to play with and get a feel for what it can do. One of my major areas of investigation will be the performance I can get out of it and from that whether I can do some interesting stuff with it.
Haskell is of course still a curiosity to me. Will it provide the productivity increase it seems to give me glimpses of while fiddling with it or will it at the end of the day all fall out in the wash and be no more productive than Java or C++. That is what I am trying to determine while learning Haskell.