There are some promising features, the most important one to me is generate Ada specification based on C/C++ header files, this will give me a break on creating my own bindings.
Let’s see – their web site mentioned late May, so it could be just couple of days ahead.
Today should be my buiest day in the past 5 months, after the changes in early December.
I was helping production engineers deploy a new temporary QA environment, this was raised early this week; I was build couple of new packages for a patch release that was determined this morning, luckily I don’t have to do any code change, just take some new packages from another team; I was dealing with a intergration environment problem, as they saw random timeout from our side (but I don’t know what was happening, so far, as I cannot re-produce the issue); I got a P3 bug that saying one component in production is crashing randomly … yea random again, I haven’t got time check it out; the converage test tools should be delivered this Friday, but I haven’t started anything, yet.
Luckily people around are helping, I think I will have tomorrow focus on the coverage test tools, and other people in the team can help take over the patch stuffs (thanks god).
Busy is not bad, I need to do something and show my willingness to help others, otherwise in this team culture people will think it’s me who don’t want to help.
Boss asked me check out Google’s App Engine, and said that’s cool and could be the direction that we are going to move to, though we may only serve internal customers.
I’m still playing with it – I’m not familiar with Python no Java, and I don’t like them too much, but I can try.
Is grid/cloud the right thing to go? Doubt, but since there are so many experts take it seriously as future, let’s assume it is the direction. It may like “open system”, or “client servr”, or “3-tiers achitect”, or “go web”, or “virtualization” – all these words used to be fancy or cool, but later on they just become our daily life in development. ๐