Yep, I’ve been programming for almost 3 days straight – although I did take breaks to read to Jill and mountain bike with her this morning. And we did go out Sunday night with a bunch of friends. Other than that, lotsa code for Ben.
I’ve been working on my finance program. I fixed some bugs and added some graphs – thanks to a free utility called Ploticus. I also added two new reports – the YTD summary and a category detail report. Finally, I added spiffy headings with another free utility called Figlet. Here’s some screenshots of the program in action:
I’m wondering how professionals view shell scripting for projects like this. I know Perl would do this kind of thing very nicely, but I just don’t know it well enough – or C for that matter. The only complaint I have about it now is the speed – the reports take around 5-10 seconds to generate. I’m not sure why, but I use stuff like cat, grep, and awk extensively.
Anyway, if anyone wants to download and critique my program, shoot me an email.
The kids had their last day on wednesday, and staff finished up friday, staff party and all. It was the most sentimental end of the year for me b/c of kids I have had relationships with and staff whom i love that aren’t returning. Julie was my date at the staff party, and i even wore my hair down to show off my new do, cut by Susie.
