29 Mar 2002 motb   » (Journeyer)

Nine to five

Decided that consulting involves too much chasing people for money and too little working on interesting problems. As a result, I'm looking for a good old nine to five sort of job. There are a few good possibilities locally -- with any luck, one of them will come through. If anyone knows any good companies to work for in the Vancouver, BC, CA area, please let me know.

Five to nine

Speaking of nine to fives, like many of us here, it'll be a challenge to be out of bed and to work on time. There is something too tempting about wiling away the night hours reading or coding. If anyone has any good tricks for how to get on a healthy cycle and keep it, please share.

C++

I've been working with C++ again for the past few days. Let me tell you, I really miss some of the conveniences I find with Ruby, Perl, and some of the other scripting languages. I'll get used to it, though. It seems to be the language that gets one jobs these days, and it's not actually difficult.

What does the world need?

A few of the projects I'm working on are a medical office management system (in Ruby), a literate programming tool (also in Ruby), and an e-mail client (in C++). On one hand, they're all fun and educational. On the other hand, I feel like I'm just duplicating what's out there a million times over.

What does the world need? What isn't well-covered in the various open source offerings? I'm horrendous at GUIs and graphics, but pretty good at most everything else. If you have any ideas, please let me know.

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