Thinking together
Susan writes about different kinds of thinking. Martin wonders: do you hear the code?
There are reports of major Swedish opto-cables being damaged today - I don’t know if it’s related, but so far I have very uneven access to most foreign sites.
Very little sleep, extremely tired - and yet another good day at the Parliament’s IT-lab. A morning meeting about the next generation of schemas (I presented one of them), then more prototyping and research, with developers and people who work at the Parliament. The atmosphere is very much hands-on, every conversation is a lesson.
Right now we’re laying the groundwork for an XML-oriented infrastructure and testing a new editor. Today I tested built-in functionality, wrote small pieces of code and scripts, tuned schemas… but more important, checked out what the others are doing and talked about best practices for future development. I’ll hold another XML-course soon - but just walking around is sometimes better and more fun.
Dive into Python - a free Python tutorial for experienced programmers. Via Jörg, Martin, effbot and all the other fellow snakecharmers.
More than three hours on the phone with Aila - very intense, very necessary. We’ll sleep well now - good night!