Gone Retro
I'm sitting here hacking to the sounds of a local radio station's 80s retro weekend. I'm writing this blog in Emacs, which I started learning about a week ago now. I haven't fired up vi since then, if that's any indication of how this new experience is going. It feels a lot like the experience I had learning Ruby after too many years of Java. Oh, I'll use vi again I suppose, but I'm having way too much fun with Emacs right now. It's something new (to me) and different. It feels... deliciously sinful.
Today wraps up a week that included writing several bash scripts. I dabbled in some CVS black magic that turned out to be elegant and intuitive -- it just worked. I scheduled a few 'cron' jobs. Along the way, I periodically ran 'make'. It's been far too long since I've done those things. But more importantly, I had an absolute ball! Writing "enterprise applications" was never this fun.