Been reading up on Perl, I’ve already made use of a bunch of functionality in it but I’d like to go to the next level. Perl to me is like the fast equivalent version of C – fast in terms of productivity and time to write software not execution speed – C is kind in this regard. I read a bit today on the the Win32 extensions but I don't think I’m that interested right now in it. I think what I’d like to get a better grip on now is the data reporting side of things.I’d like to use my knowledge of regular expressions in the vehicle that made regular expressions famous – Perl. I just need a project and the inclination. Everything else is vying for my attention but I’ll come around…
Citrix has started using git now. We used to use perforce but we’re slowly moving away from it. I like perforce and well I also liked subversion. Safe to say git is pretty ok too. The guys are slowly moving to git and around the office I’m hearing the usual, “but I used to do this in perforce so easily!”. I’ve been using git well before my work required me to so that's a good thing so the switch is easy.
There are a few things that I’ve noticed that I took for granted with perforce – visual diffs, time lapsed views, searching submitted change lists etc. Obviously the GUI of P4V made things a whole lot easier. And I’m finding the visual studio git integration pretty good also. I use it mainly for visual diffs and for staging and committing. I sometimes use Source Tree but not much.
I’m sure I’ll be hearing more moans and groans in the next couple of weeks until they realise how awesome it is.
I still find windows 10 sucky. I’ve always thought the windows start menu and metro interface is a step backwards. I’m updated to the Creators update and well nothing much has changed. Microsoft really shot themselves in the leg with Windows 8,8.1 and 10. Totally misinterpreted the use of a PC in a mobile perspective – trying to merge cell phones and PCs and the experience sounds cool but the implementation is fudy-dudy. They’ve really made Linux look good though, I’m pleased about that. Ubuntu and fedora are now not as ugly as the rest of the world, its just that the rest of the world got uglier!