2003.05.27 @ 1933

Well, my plans for tonight have fallen through. :-( Ah well. So sad. I think that they will be rescheduled for Thursday, so that is good. Damn sickness! It might be for the best though. It will give me more time to work on AudioMan, something that I really need to do. Sometimes I think that I am doing something wrong, or why would it be taking me so long? Maybe I am just slow... :-( Ah well.

One thing that I really am starting to like, and Ryan will love this, is Test Driven Developement (TDD) or Test First Development (TFD). I was working away the other day, and decisions that make sense in isolation, break the code when put together. Running a test everytime I add a couple of lines of code shows me if I break the code. I like it, I really like it. ;-) And it gives me a (bad or good depending on who you talk to) excuse to not to work on the code. I am not going to touch the code unless a test fails. If I think that something needs to be worked on, I will write a test first that fails, and then fix that problem. If I can't write a failing test, (other than in the case of refactoring), I am not going to touch anything. I sort of like that. ;-)

I have a distinct feeling that I am not going to get in all the things that I planned to do this summer. One thing though, I have introduced my parents to the idea that I will travel when I finish school. Of course their first reaction is "I don't like it" and "I don't think that you should go", but I don't think that they will have too much say if I am paying for it all. Like most things around here, I will just keep quiet and mysterious about them. ;-)

Listening to: Leahy - The Call to Dance Medley