HerdingChaos

I have not really done much with subversion in the past. I now have my old PPC based mac mini running svn+ssh with email notifications going out via svnnotify for a small group of us working on some things. It works pretty well. I guess any SCM is like any other, but I like trying new things once in a while.

I got a new job at work. I have been moving more and more to the edge of management vs technical contributor. I do not have any people working for me directly which is the way I want it. (Who wants to fill out all that paperwork when review time comes around?) But I now have technical responsibility for multiple product lines and there are 200+ engineers working on all of these products. Keeping up with all of this, aligning the work to a longer term architectural vision and ensuring the technical viability of our products means that I have not had much time to actually code.

I miss coding. When this has happened in the past I have always found some outlet for writing code. Last night finally sat down and compiled my first iPhone app and loaded it on my iPhone. The app is just one of the sample apps, but getting all of the signed certificates and all of the provisioning done so that you can actually load some random code on your iPhone/iPod Touch is not all that easy. Now I just need a great idea like this and I will be making my millions in no time.

Have not had much time to keep up with my blog. A ton has happened in the past year. I am going to try and pick this back up and start posting again. I guess we will see if that actually happens.