Mike's Musing

Today is my last day of work for this year, I have three weeks of holidays to look forward to.  I’m going to see family for Christmas and it is looking increasing likely that I am going to end up at some random lake to catch up with a few friends for new years.  The downside to this is thanks to my current living arrangement it means I’m going to all but drop off the internet for those three weeks, this isn’t a necessarily a bad thing though as it is going to give me a lot of time to work on gIDE.

I was hoping to have the first release of gIDE done before Christmas which is looking increasingly less likely, so much so that I’m not going to bother with it any more.  There isn’t a lot that I have to get done before I’m happy to make a release, these will also be the first things on my list of things I am going to work on during my time off.  In no particular order the features are:

• Find/Replace
• Project Properties
• Generic Build System
• Document split view

I’m also considering implementing a limited subset of vim commands, though I think I will wait until after this release in the hopes of getting some user feedback on what they think would be the most useful commands to include.

In other news I recently saw The Day the Earth Stood Still.  To be honest I was not that impressed, the movie seemed to trying to get a message across but not succeeding, at times I even felt that the movie wasn’t overly sure what that message should be.  The casting for the movie however was spot on, especially with Keanu Reeves.  Also a couple of days ago I recommended that you go read Pictures of You by Gibson Twist, from there I got linked to another webcomic of his which I enjoyed.  So if you enjoyed Pictures of You you might also want to check out Our Time in Eden.

Over the last couple of days I have been reading through the archives of the webcomic Pictures of You and have been thoroughly enjoying it.  The story is gripping as I’m sitting there eagerly waiting for it all to spectacularly fall apart as promised in the prologue, while I think that is a long way I’m still waiting with bated breath.   It was one of those stories that once you start it is very hard to walk away from it wanting to find out what happens next.  The art in my opinion (the whole 2 cents that it is worth on a good day) is beautiful,  I’m not sure if this is the right way to put it but I’d describe it as simple yet engaging able to get the point across without necessarily needing any dialog.

The first book is available somewhere as an actually book and I’m thinking about picking it up early in the new year.