Tis the season

To be busy.  No matter how much I try,  I never achieve the goal of having very little “business” programming to do this time of year so that I can play.  I always look forward to the break in the business action so that I can play with some of the ideas/projects that have accumulated during the year.  So what does that list look like?  Here are a few (in no particular order):

• GWT – I really want to take a look at GWT but I haven’t gotten to it.
• Andriod – Yet another Google tool that needs to be explored.
• tn5250j – This needs some attention and although it isn’t my project, I have wanted to get in an clean it up a bit.
• Ruby (JRuby) on Rails – the www.roroni.com site has been down for over a year.  I have tried a few things over the past couple of days but I am still running into the odd issue here and there.  Andrea Ribuoli has been working on a native port of Ruby to i that won’t require the DB2 Connect bit, but I haven’t had a chance there either.
• Updates to the ASAAP, Valadd, Open Source for i and helgren.com web sites.  I got Joomla installed to do this but haven’t done anything since.
• Updates to web5250

The list goes on.

The reason I am not accomplishing what I set out to do is not for lack of effort, it is simply that I am a lousy estimator.  Things are taking 5-10 times as long as I *think* they will.  If I could just reverse that ratio, I’d be rocking and rolling.

Before I forget, I wish you all NOT a “Happy Holiday” (bland, benign, worthless expression as THAT is) but a heartfelt “Merry Christmas”.  May the wonder and love of this season bless you.