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I really love implementing new stuff. I love doing work that will help resolve issues. I love making stuff work. I love making the environment better. That’s who I am and I think that’s what makes me a great developer.

Over the past few days, I have implemented a bullet proof cache solution. Working with the utilities provided by BIM, it’s not easy to access 3rd party urls. Plus, it’s slow and makes the requests error prone. That’s why I am working on creating a more bullet proof solution of caching. Caching will provide a way to not worry about occasional failures, but exceptional speedup. However, if we use caching, and there is a failure, then the module is down for the cache period. That’s why I think it’s really important for the cache to have fail over functionality. And that’s what I implemented. I am excited about announcing it to the group.

I love working on new and challenging problems. Time flies!

NBC can be a fun place as well. I do like the people here. They’re communicative. The place is fairly social. I can actually learn from them in that regard. I am not that social. I am actually very lucky that my wife Marta is great in this regard. She is basically my social life. I would be nobody if it was not for her. Of course, the choice of friends, etc. is her decision, but she’s right, I cannot complaign because I don’t have anything better. Or another friends.

I love fixing stuff. It’s really important for me. I love getting things done. I once had a label “He gets things done.” I believe that’s the biggest compliment of me. I really do love getting things. done!

Javascript
I have learned that I should always set “var field” in a function. It sets a local scope. Whearas if I just defined “field = ” it would make it a global scope. Thus, it is much safer to just declare var = .

I am doing a good amount of learning. It’s working out pretty well for me. I read for around an hour at home (it’s more like half an hour). I should change to read at least 45 mins. Then at work, I’m reading close to half an hour. It’s allowing me to get a good chunk of reading every day.

I am still trying to master my Javascript. I have come a long way since a few weeks. It’s great. I love learning about it.

I still get a kick working on improving things, making things better at NBC. That’s what I love to do. However, the issue with this job is that there is not enough of it, there is not enough challenges. But overall is not bad, things are in a good state, I have a good working relationship. I still enjoy working here. But I’m just always looking ahead! 🙂

I think I “got” what Strategy pattern is all about. It’s about having the ability to change the behavriour on the fly. It’s the ability to use HAS-A composition instead of inheritance so the main logic can be changed on the fly.

Working on my website is really fun. I can spend hours making improvements. I think the key to me is finding a way to make money on what I love to do. And that probably means starting my own company.

I discovered some more details about my housing plans. I can now find a summer house architecture project that I want. I found some pretty good ones. I think it’s a good start. I will write a post about it.

I am always trying to find things to write on the website. I am at a loss a lot of times. No longer. I created an empty suggestion box that will remind me about things I want to write about. Similar to what I have here. But generally, I want to write about things that I learn about, knowledge I want to share, and questions I have so perhaps somebody helps me. A great deal of writing.

I have learned that MovableType sucks. Really. I tried implementing tag search and tag cloud but it sucks. I came across a weird issue that I could not reload the category indexes. I am wondering whether I should upgrade. Or possibly move away from MT.

Getting a house in Poland might be something I want to do in the not so distant future. House prices are going down in Poland as well. I also learned that I should be able to get a house in Poland without too much problem. I think 2010 might be a good time to jump in and buy a house in Krakow? I would love to. I should get in touch with my cousing Andrzej.

Besides that, I learned that when I start working on a wrong foot, it’s hard to concentrate on work. Really. But I need a day like this from time to time.