General thoughts, usually on some technical or engineering development related topic. A place for me to chat about things I think might be of interest.
The replacement for my original Pixel-C is now just about ready to use. Application are reloaded and updates applied.
Kindle books are on it. There was some sort of hiccup when loading the books initially. A handful came up with a ‘!’ on them and would not load or reload. I found that the only thing that helped was going to the ‘carousel’ and tapping to load the affected books from there. Once I did that they seemed to work properly. As this is a WiFi only tablet, I need to have everything I’m likely to want pre-loaded before I leave home.
I have become more and more dependent on kindle books for both technical material and relaxation reading. I mostly read them using the app on my android phone and tablets. Lately I have been trying to use the windows application to read technical documents while working on my computer at home.
I’ve found that some books that display perfectly on my android devices give persist ‘delete and download again’ messages on the PC. No matter how often I try the process suggested by the app, I continue to get the error.
The replacement for my failing google Pixel-C tablet arrived yesterday afternoon. I turned the old one around by packing it back in the box that the replacement came in and Lorna sent it on its way this morning.
At the moment, work is getting busy. This is going to likely result in reduced blogging. There are certainly interesting things to say, but in the last week or two I haven’t been finding the time to say them…
I’ve had a Pixel-C tablet since they were released and until the last week or so have been very happy with it. Over the last week it has taken to having one half of the screen freeze and refusing to come out of sleep mode without a hard reset. The frozen screen even occurs at boot (when half the screen is pixel snow). As of this morning, the failure is there at boot and never goes away and even when I just press the button to put it to sleep it refuses to start up again. Continue reading Disappointed – My Pixel-C tablet is not working right→
I’ve bought quite a few books (paper and kindle) since last time I updated my books list. I’ll be working to back-fill that area to cover the new stuff as time permits. I’ve added a number of entries to the EBooks and Others section and expect to keep at this area until I’m caught up. I may or may not handle the paper based books as a bookshelf depending on time and quantity of items.
I spent last weekend getting backup set up for the site after a scare that had me thinking I’d lost the blog side of the site. Backups now are looking good and appear to be running well. I still need to load XAMPP on my linux box and verify that I can restore the sites, but I’m pretty comfortable that will work.
I’m not sure what is on my agenda next in terms of technical projects but here’s a loosely form list in no particular order:
Seems that as I grow more experienced in software engineering, my best practices focus more on broader concerns and less on syntax. Too busy at the moment to do much on this front, but thinking…
I’ve written C++ and C coding guidelines for a number of teams that I’ve been part of. In general, those documents are owned by my employers at the time I created them. I’m working through a list (just getting started at the moment) of things I think should be included in current day C++ guidelines and posting them under my ‘information’ tab here on my career blog. This is a work in progress and depending on how busy I become may stall for extended periods of time…
If time permits I may also write up some commentary on java and C# (and perhaps others).
Engineering execution and creativity mixed for the best results…
